August 2010
1 post
The Onion | Newly Discovered Documents Shed Light... →
July 2010
2 posts
The Guardian | The Art of Slow Reading →
House Divided | The Civil War Research Engine at... →
I will be blogging occasionally for the “Blog Divided” blog, writing about classics and classical education in antebellum America, among other things.
May 2010
2 posts
Alexandra Teague | "English Fundamentals" →
A wonderful poem from Alexandra Teague’s first book of poetry, Mortal Geography (2010).
McSweeney's | Rebekah Frumkin | Socrates and... →
April 2010
1 post
NPR | TV's "The Wire" Gets New Life in College... →
An “All Things Considered” story on my brother-in-law’s class at Middlebury College on “The Wire.”
March 2010
1 post
Winterpills covering Big Star's "Thirteen" →
February 2010
4 posts
Local author R.W. "Obie" Holmen's new novel, "A... →
The website for “Obie” Holmen’s historical novel about the Apostle Paul, A Wretched Man.
Northfield News: Writers Celebrate the NAG 50th... →
Daily Athenaeum: Still More Praise for Rebekah →
MN2020: "Conservative Policy Punishing Good... →
January 2010
1 post
Chicago Tribune: More Praise for Rebekah →
December 2009
3 posts
Best "New" Christmas Song I've Heard This Year →
John Prine’s “Christmas in Prison,” sung by MInnesotan Eric Kalenze and his 10-year old daughter Lydia. Stunning.
h/t Brendon via Facebook
Northfield, Minnesota Blizzard in 2 Minutes and 15... →
Live stream of the snowstorm in downtown... →
November 2009
2 posts
Carleton student’s short story published in... →
Learning curve: Cannon River STEM School begins... →
October 2009
4 posts
Video: "Beyond Forgetting" poetry reading on... →
In schools, even chemistry is going green |... →
Featuring my friend Bob Hanson.
Kerry Langan: Only Beautiful & Other Stories →
A new collection of stories by my friend Kerry.
“To understand that the language of the Bible is fluid, passing, and literary,...”
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Matthew Arnold, Literature and Dogma (1873)
September 2009
4 posts
Boyd's SPCO tenure ends on a generous note |... →
A review of the wonderful SPCO concert Clara and I attended on Thursday evening, September 24.
Key quote: “Overflowing with felicities, Haydn’s so-called Miracle Symphony felt, on this occasion, truly miraculous. Above all else, this music is deeply, redemptively sane— a precious antidote to the excesses of our current national shouting match.”
author spotlight: Shannon Hyland-Tassava « P.S.... →
Op-Ed Contributor - Joe Wilson’s War - NYTimes.com →
Washington Diarist: With Respect To What | The New... →
August 2009
3 posts
Northfield Sunset | Northfield.org →
Teaching Tube | Seven Days →
A great in-depth profile of my brother-in-law Jason Mittell, a television scholar and head of Middlebury College’s Program in Film and Media Culture.
Noticed - It’s Hip to Be Round - NYTimes.com →
July 2009
5 posts
Study at Keele University shows that swearing can... →
Book by 8th graders follows James gang through... →
56 worst/best analogies of high school students |... →
Independence Days - Al Franken and the Odd... →
Remembering Last Reunion Of Civil War Veterans :... →
See also this video of Confederate and Union veterans shaking hands over a stone wall at Gettysburg in 1938.
June 2009
3 posts
Penelopedia: Nature and Garden in Northfield, MN:... →
The Enlarged Republic—Then and Now - The New York... →
A long essay on The Federalist by Cass Sunstein.
May 2009
6 posts
Parents, kids explore STEM School option on... →
Northfield's Klingon Connection | Northfield.org →
Elaine Showalter chooses the best novelists... →
Op-Ed Contributor - A Degree in English -... →
Compact Fluorescent Recycling in Northfield |... →
Northfield Writer: An Interview with Tom Swift |... →
April 2009
5 posts
The Trees of Northfield | Northfield.org →
Commonplace Book | Elizabeth Bowen
Three quotations from Elizabeth Bowen’s The Last September (1929).
On finding lost things: “Imagine, sir, a small resurrection day, an intimate thing-y one, when the woods should give up their tennis balls and the bundles of hay their needles: the beaches their engagement rings and the rivers their cigarette cases and some watches. The sea’s too general, and affair of furniture...
Northfield Writer: Shannon Tassava |... →
Beyond Forgetting | Northfield.org →
March 2009
3 posts
Rob's March Stories on Northfield.org
“The Joy of Parenting” (3/29/09)
“Mothers, Fathers, and Dried Beans” (3/24/09)
“Nalani McCutcheon Named Founding Executive Director of Cannon River STEM School” (3/19/09)
“Some of Jim’s Nicer Pots at the Northfield Arts Guild” (3/18/09)
French protest by reading Nicolas Sarkozy's least... →
“I wish people knew how to be people as well as that tree knows how to be a tree.”
– Jean Arthur