Et Cetera: Driving a Plow
Before horsepower meant something under a tractor hood, primarily mules, but sometimes actual…
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“Here I Stand; I Can Do No Other”
This month, people all over the world celebrate the quincentenary of the Protestant…
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Ex Libris: The Winter Fortress
Imagine the horror if Germany, under Adolf Hitler, had developed the atomic bomb…
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Ex Libris – On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
In C. S. Lewis’ essay “On Stories,” readers are given the opportunity to…
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Ex Libris: Percy Jackson and the Olympians
The end of school and beginning of summer always brings many exhilarating anticipations…
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Defining Carolina
On any map of South Carolina, there are a surprising number of French…
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Ex Libris: Murder as a Fine Art
Thomas De Quincey, made famous by his controversial Confessions of an Opium-Eater, was…
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Ex Libris: Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Illustration by Anna and Elena Balbusso for The Folio Society edition of Twelfth…
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Delivered by Hand
As the years go by, the use of personalized paper products seems to…
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Ex Libris: Emily Dickinson’s Poems – As She Preserved Them
Emily Dickinson has always been one of my favorite poets. Her words, her…
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Ex Libris: Running for My Life
At the age of 6, Lopez Lomong was kidnapped by rebel soldiers while he…
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Will You Be My Valentine?
The image of a flying infant, armed with a bow and arrows, represents…
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