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FOR LOVERS OF `WALDEN,' A GLIMPSE OF THE ARTIST'S HAND

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20040720
Author:David Mehegan, Globe Staff

CONCORD - After picking her way among the bathers on the small beach, Carolyn Roberts, with her son, son-in-law, and two grandchildren, had entered the woods and followed the path on the north shore of Walden Pond, until she reached the rectangle of stones set in the ground, marking the spot where Henry David Thoreau lived alone from 1845 until 1847.

Recently moved from Springfield, Mo., to Belmont to be near her family, Roberts had come for the first time to the place immortalized in "Walden, or Life in the Woods," which may be the most famous work of American literature. While her ...

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