Coincidentally: The Happy Farmer
I shall always be grateful to the neighbor of my parents who some years ago gave me a copy of…
Heathen Holiness: Padraic Colum’s Nordic Gods and Heroes
Winter is the season for readers. Bitter cold and polar darkness drive people beneath quilts and by hearthsides where the book…
Coincidentally: Great Minds Thinking Alike
Many have read the explanatory note of 29 June 1998 about Pope John Paul II’s motu proprio Ad Tuendam Fidem issued by the…
Coincidentally: Lend an Ear
“If you bite him again, I’ll disqualify you.” Thus spake the surprisingly contralto voice of Mills Lane, referee of the…
Rip Van Winkle and the American Phantasy
The ghosts that haunt the lonely corners of the globe have ever managed to play an uncanny and incalculable role in…
What Are You Reading This Summer?
The return of summertime every year often recalls the years that will never return: the golden days of youth. The energy,…
Coincidentally: Before Incunabula
Some essays write themselves and this is one of them. In 1996 the philanthropist George W. Mallinckrodt gave a substantial…
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Coincidentally: Hearing Secret Harmonies
The Civil War was raging, and a Confederate sentry heard the sound of a voice coming from marshland behind enemy…
The Birds: When the Wind Changes Overnight
For all their disagreements, scientific fact and science fiction are in agreement concerning the viral quality of fear. Men tend to…
