Few topics seem as appropriate for discussing at the very beginning of a new year as family–the people who shape us and the people whom we shape in turn. And so, in this first Ideas in Progress interview of 2025, […]
everyday life
“Let’s give hog reeves their due!”
Over at the Panorama, historian Gabe Loiacono introduces us to hog reeves. “Hog reeves were annually elected town officers,” he writes, “whose part-time position ensured that all hogs in the town wore a yoke and a nose-ring and were generally […]