On the Fourth of July 1845, eight years after his graduation from Harvard, the writer, philosopher, naturalist Henry David Thoreau left the town of Concord, Massachusetts, to go and live in a log cabin, built by himself on the wild banks of Lake Walden. There he lived for two years, two months and two days.
A copy of his journal, Walden, or Life in the woods (Boston, 1854), will be given free with every Homewood Field Kitchen.