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Hallelujah!…

source Back in 1972, your correspondent spent a summer working working as a utility infielder at WBTV, the Charlotte CBS affiliate.  In those distant days, local stations did original public affairs...

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If it wasn’t already obvious…

… it’s not a good idea to have a “fish pedicure.” Fish pedicures aren’t just a bizarre beauty ritual with shady animal-welfare considerations, they’re also downright dangerous to your health, according...

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“Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition”*…

    One quibbles with Jacques Barzun, the author of this post’s title quote, at one’s peril.  Still, as Lapham’s Quarterly points out, disrespect, even disdain for formal education has a long history....

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“And then the water ran out, and they fell back, realizing too late that...

  Remnants of the ancient city of Cahokia, in what’s now southern Illinois   Not far from my grandmother’s house is a ghost city. At Angel Mounds on the Ohio river about eight miles southeast of...

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“In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends”*…

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) stands tall in the cultural pantheon for his poetry. It’s less well known that in his own lifetime, and in the decades following his death,...

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“How do I know what I think until I see what I say?”*…

Henriette Browne, A Girl Writing; The Pet Goldfinch, ca. 1874 Montaigne would be amused… The first quarter of the twenty-first century has been an uneasy time of rupture and anxiety, filled with...

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