By Glenn Roberts Jr., Tuesday, August 10, 2004. This is a tale of a man living alone in a home in the woods near a pond in the town of Lincoln, Mass., not far, as it happens, from the place where a man wrote a book, published 150 years ago this month, about living alone in a home in the woods near a pond.
Author and naturalist Henry David Thoreau, in his 1854 book, "Walden," described his retreat to nature at Walden Pond, a small glacial lake in the area of Concord and Lincoln, Mass.
"I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to more...
