This morning I finished Wendell Berry’s Andy Catlett: Early Travels. (You can read my previous post on this novel here). It is a short, moving and simple story of a nine-year old boy developing an affection for a place that...
Fithian and Limbo
Why Philip Vickers Fithian?
While lecturing about The Way of Improvement Leads Home I am often asked how I first got interested in writing about Philip Vickers Fithian, an eighteenth-century diarist who is virtually unknown to most of those who come to hear me […]