Category Archives: Education

You Can’t Padlock an Idea

Posted on December 1, 2024 by Uncomely and Broken

“You can padlock a building,” Myles Horton said of the closing of the Highlander Folk School in 1959. “But you can’t padlock an idea. Highlander is an idea. You can’t kill it and you can’t close it. … It will … Continue reading →

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RIP Stanley Crouch

Posted on September 18, 2020 by Uncomely and Broken

Stanley Crouch came to speak at Sewanee in the mid-2000s as part of the “How Then Shall We Live?” series. Below is the author picture he sent. When I picked him up at the Nashville airport, he emerged from the … Continue reading →

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“Asynchronous in Sewanee”

Posted on April 30, 2020 by Uncomely and Broken

A piece I wrote for Sewanee Features called “Asynchronous in Sewanee” just came out.

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Protected: Myth Spr 20: Oedipus at Colonus

Posted on April 19, 2020 by Uncomely and Broken

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Protected: LATN 403 Spr 20: Agricola chap. 30

Posted on April 18, 2020 by Uncomely and Broken

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Protected: Myth Spr 20: Antigone

Posted on April 16, 2020 by Uncomely and Broken

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Protected: Myth Spr 20: Bacchae

Posted on April 14, 2020 by Uncomely and Broken

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Protected: LATN 403 Spr 20: Agricola chap. 24

Posted on April 9, 2020 by Uncomely and Broken

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Back to the office, or unlearning the old normal

Posted on March 23, 2020 by Uncomely and Broken

This is my office. The place that has been the center of my working life for a decade and a half here at the University of the South in Sewanee. It’s in the basement of Gailor Hall, but it has … Continue reading →

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“Et in Arcadia Ego” bench in Abbo’s Alley

Posted on August 14, 2019 by Uncomely and Broken

Given by Friends and Classmate to Celebrate Our Friendship with Thomas Carleton Ward C ’69 August 3, 1947- June 30, 1997 Quick Bring a Beaker of Wine So That I May Wet My Mind And Say Something Clever From Mary … Continue reading →

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