Preserving an Inheritance
Preserving an Inheritance Mr. Kirk Wareham The seasons are turning, as they always are, and I am hiking in the Catskill Mountains with my seven-year-old granddaughter. We are on official business, which is to say that we are performing trail maintenance for the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference. Our job is to clear the trail […]
Vergil & the Chatbots: On Reading Latin Versus Talking to A.I.
Vergil & the Chatbots On Reading Latin Versus Talking to A.I. Dr. Anthony J. Fredette The opposite of chatting with an A.I. ghost is reading literature written in Latin. If the truth of this claim is not immediately obvious, dear reader, allow me to explain. It has to do with the purposes for which human […]
This Journey’s End
This Journey’s End Dr. Jeff Gardner This story is not about a trip, but about traveling. Not long ago, I drove to Wisconsin to attend the funeral of a good friend’s daughter. An aggressive cancer had taken her life within one month. She was barely out of her twenties. When I arrived, the weather was […]
Moonlight & Maples
Moonlight & Maples Mrs. Gina Loehr In a roundabout way, my love of maple syrup traces its roots to my father’s dance band, aptly named “The Noteables.” As a child growing up in suburban Ohio in the late seventies and eighties, my brothers and I were subject to many culinary convenience trends, such as Kool-Aid, […]
Long Awaiting: Winter-to-Spring and Other Painfully Slow Transitions
Long Awaiting Winter-to-Spring& Other PainfullySlow Transitions Dr. Dixie Dillon Lane When winter begins to blow away and the slush of March sets in, we turn our minds to the hope of spring. We long at this time for relief and celebration. Christmas is far behind us now, and late winter and early spring are the […]
Humane Learning in a Machine Age: A Professor’s Resolutions
Humane Learning in a Machine Age A Professor’s Resolutions Dr. Ben Reinhard “I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to […]
Longing for More: Why We Should Read Bittersweet Christmas Tales to Our Children
Longing for More Why We Should Read Bittersweet Christmas Tales to Our Children Dr. LuElla D’Amico A couple of Christmases ago, my then-six-year-old daughter asked me if I would sit down with her to watch her new favorite movie. Because a certain ice-princess film was still a particular favorite in our house, I expected yet […]
The Pleasures of Working Together
The Pleasures of Working Together Mrs. Tessa Carman When I was a little girl, going to Grandma’s house meant cookies from blue-and-white porcelain jars, fresh tomato sandwiches on local bakery bread, watching The Sound of Music on VHS (again and again) in the television room, eating sweet corn at suppertime, plunking on the baby-grand piano […]
Being John Muir
Being John Muir Dr. Jeff Gardner In 1868, a dusty and tired John Muir arrived in San Francisco. He immediately asked someone for directions to get out of town. Muir’s intent, he said, was to go “anywhere that’s wild” and slip into the solitude of out-of-the-way places. Within three years, however, Muir found himself center-stage […]
Autumn Stewardship
Autumn Stewardship Mr. Hadden Turner Premium Subscribers Sorry, this feature is only available for H&F Print Premium subscribers. You can sign up here. (If you are already a Print Premium subscriber, be sure to click the authentication link you were sent by email so this won’t happen again.) As the days become shorter, a coolness […]