Preserving an Inheritance Mr. Kirk Wareham The seasons are turning, as they always are, and I am hiking in the Catskill Mountains with my seven-year-old granddaughter. We are on official business, which is to say that we are performing trail maintenance for the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference. Our job is to clear the trail […]| Hearth & Field
The opposite of chatting with an A.I. ghost is reading literature written in Latin. If the truth of this claim is not immediately obvious, dear reader, allow me to explain. It has to do with the purposes for which human beings use language.| Hearth & Field
Moonlight & Maples Mrs. Gina Loehr In a roundabout way, my love of maple syrup traces its roots to my father’s dance band, aptly named “The Noteables.” As a child growing up in suburban Ohio in the late seventies and eighties, my brothers and I were subject to many culinary convenience trends, such as Kool-Aid, […]| Hearth & Field
As we enter the year of Our Lord 2025, those educators still interested in the pursuit of wisdom may well sympathize with Tolkien’s bewildered hobbit: we may have at last reached the end of our world, and what comes next is anybody’s guess.| Hearth & Field
