Category Archives: Sewanee

Colonel Shaw and Some Anniversaries

Posted on July 23, 2013 by Uncomely and Broken

One hundred and fifty years ago this week, Colonel Robert Gould Shaw was killed during a desperate assault on South Carolina’s Fort Wagner while leading the Massachusetts 54th Regiment, the first all African-American volunteers corps. Perhaps you know about Shaw … Continue reading →

Posted in Boston, Education, Family, Military, New England, Poetry, Race, Sewanee, Slavery, Statues & Monuments, The South, Time | 2 Comments

A Day on Dimmick

Posted on June 25, 2013 by Uncomely and Broken

“Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing–absolutely nothing–half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.”  Thus says Rat to Mole in The Wind in the Willows, a favorite book of mine, as some will know. And … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Family, Nautical, Sewanee, Sports & Games, Tennessee, Trees & Flowers | 6 Comments

A Dozen Days Later

Posted on April 28, 2013 by Uncomely and Broken

When I first heard about the explosions at the Boston Marathon, I scoured the internet till I found a live feed and called my wife.  “What!? WHAT?!”  We were both horrified.  “This was part of the reason we moved to … Continue reading →

Posted in Boston, Classics, England, Family, Language & Etymology, Military, Mythology, Poetry, Sewanee, Sports & Games | 2 Comments

Protected: Tiresias, Throbbing Between Two Lives

Posted on March 30, 2013 by Uncomely and Broken

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Stations of the Cross

Posted on March 29, 2013 by Uncomely and Broken

It’s Good Friday, and in Sewanee that means that at noon a large cross will be slowly carried from the School of Theology to All Saints’ Chapel by various members of the university and community.  Following the Way of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Bible, Boston, Education, Family, Ireland, Oxford, Sewanee, Sports & Games, Tennessee, The South | 2 Comments

Behind the Times in Sewanee

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Uncomely and Broken

This past Sunday morning, I went up into Breslin Tower here in Sewanee to watch the clock being re-set for Daylight Savings Time. Keith Henley, who has been overseeing the clock for the past two years and seems to know … Continue reading →

Posted in Family, Nautical, Numismatics, Oxford, Sewanee, Time | 17 Comments

Protected: Quelle Heure Est-Il?

Posted on March 10, 2013 by Uncomely and Broken

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The Unmoved Mover

Posted on March 6, 2013 by Uncomely and Broken

About two decades fifteen years ago, my wife had given a brilliant talk on Henry V and, as a result, been offered a job at Sewanee.  One perk was that they would pay our moving expenses, and so it came … Continue reading →

Posted in Classics, England, Family, Sewanee, Uncategorized | 4 Comments

Doggerel and Dogs in the Snow

Posted on February 3, 2013 by Uncomely and Broken

In the back of one of my college notebooks, I once wrote a piece of doggerel that a friend of mine found and would recite when the spirit moved him. It does my asthma little good To go cavorting through … Continue reading →

Posted in Dogs, Poetry, Sewanee, Trees & Flowers | 7 Comments

Protected: Constellations in the Cupboard

Posted on January 17, 2013 by Uncomely and Broken

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