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 rural life
Benjamin Franklin–Urbanite
I just finished reading an essay by Jerry Weinberger on Benjamin Franklin as a city-dweller. If you have read one of the many biographies of Franklin published in 2006 during the year-long celebration of the 300th anniversary of his birth,...
Two Weeks at the David Library
For the next two weeks I will be in residence (for the second of two visits) as a visiting scholar at the David Library of the American Revolution in Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania. (Yes, this about a mile away from where...