He was in the study of his 6,000-square-foot cedar-shingled house atop Mount Aeolus near here, a small, muscular man in a tank top and gym shorts.

The new two-story cedar-shingled house was their take on Thoreau's cabin, but on 2 1/2 acres with a swimming pool and tennis court.

The house, snug and cedar-shingled, is in the venerable African-American enclave of Oak Bluffs.

We went around the southern tip of the island, down dirt and grassy roads and past a few cedar-shingled houses sitting on remote cliffs.

Many tribe members here live in modern cedar-shingled split-level houses.

My biological father, Neil, lives in a cedar-shingled Hobbit-type house trimmed with purple, deep inside the redwoods.

He lives with his wife, Deborah, and their two children, Claire, 10, and Graeme, 15, in a cedar-shingled house overlooking Vancouver harbor.

The cedar-shingled house has two and a half bathrooms, a stone fireplace and a two-car garage.

Peter Viering owns a red cedar-shingled house on four lots that his grandfather, a Hartford stockbroker, bought in 1924.

But were you to happen accidentally upon Mr. Pollan's personal woods, there it would stand: a cedar-shingled writing house sheltering Mr. Pollan writing.