On June 24, 2020, The Way of Improvement Leads Home blog turned twelve years years old. Here are a some of the year’s highlights: We dropped seventeen episodes of The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast with some greats guests,...
Andrew Dyrli Hermeling
Episode 62: Farewell Drew!
For four years Drew Dyrli Hermeling has been the heart and soul of The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast. We are saddened that he has decided to step away from his work here, but excited that he will have...
A Saturday Morning in the Old 8th Ward
I am really enjoying my Pennsylvania History course this semester. As part of the last unit of the course we have been studying Harrisburg’s Old 8th Ward. The ward is referred to as “old” because it no longer exists. The...
Teaching History With Podcasts (#AHA19)
I am happy to have Matt Lakemacher writing for us this weekend from the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Chicago. Matt is one of the most engaged middle school teachers I know. He teaches at Woodland Middle...
The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast is in Chicago for the AHA
The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast producer Drew Dyrli Hermeling is in the Windy City for the annual meeting of the American Historical Association. He will be presenting in about three hours. AHA Session 14 Thursday, January 3, 2019:...
When the Producer of The Way of Improvement Home Podcast Was Desmond Tutu’s Chaplain
If you listened to Episode 42 of The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast you may recall producer Drew Dyrli Hermeling talking about his experience serving as a “chaplain” to Archbishop Desmond Tutu. According to the website of the Episcopal...
The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast at Harvard’s “Sound Education” Conference
The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast co-host and producer Drew Hermeling is in Cambridge, Massachusetts this weekend. He is doing a presentation on the podcast at Sound Education: A Conference for Educational Podcasts and Listeners. Harvard University is hosting...
Do You Have This Sign on Your Lawn? If So, Thank a Messiah College History Major
Back in December 2016, NPR ran a story on this popular sign. Perhaps you have one in your neighborhood. Or maybe you have one on your lawn. The words first appeared on a black and white sign outside the...
"An Indefensible Hope"
Drew Dyrli Hermeling and I just recorded Episode 7 of The Way of Improvement Leads Home podcast. It is our baseball episode and it will go public on Sunday. Our guest is ESPN’s Paul Lukas, an expert on the history...
Drew Dyrli Hermeling Finds the Site of the Salem Witch Hangings
Why isn’t he hard at work getting Episode 3 ready for tonight’s release? As many of you know, Drew Dyrli Hermeling is the producer of The Way of Improvement Leads Home podcast. If you want to know where he is today,...
Episode 1 of The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast Will Drop on Saturday
The moment you have all been waiting for is almost here! January 16, 2016 is the official drop date, on ITunes and at the blog, of Episode 1 of The Way of Improvement Leads Home podcast. Our producer, Drew Dyrli Hermeling,...
Podcast Update: We Have a Home!
The “Way of Improvement Leads Home” podcast (not even sure if that will be the official title) is on its way. As some of you know, I am working closely on this project with Andrew Dyrli Hermeling. Drew is a...