In Boston, the past and the present carry on in parallel. The steps we take as we hurry for the T or head to a coffeeshop to meet friends trace those who came before us, maybe even in sync. One such literary place, where numerous authors have made their homes over the year, is Beacon Hill, and in this series we’ll take you on a tour of Four Doors of Pinckney Street.
#4 Pinckney Street: Henry David Thoreau
Most well-known for living in the woods for two years, Henry David Thoreau was an essayist, a naturalist, a surveyor, a teacher, an abolitionist, and a pencil innovator, who lived a simple life in and around Concord. Of him, friend William Ellery Channing wrote, “There is Thoreau…give him sunshine and a handful of nuts, and he has enough.”
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