"We would like to bring the gardens back more as they were when Emily Dickinson lived here and cultivated them," Wald said. "We know the gardens were more extensive than they are now, and the family ...

April showers bring May flowers, or so conventional wisdom would have us believe. But for those of you disheartened by flowerbeds still too puddle-muddied to bloom, there’s no need to count the days ...

A few months ago, I began making my way through the complete set of Emily Dickinson's 1,789 poems. Right from the start, I was struck by how often commonplace plants and animals—robins, bumblebees, ...