Category Archives: Sewanee

Head-copping

Posted on November 14, 2017 by Uncomely and Broken

An evening or two ago, I stopped into Mooney’s, the great little local market just on the border between Sewanee and Monteagle, to pick up some garlic powder. I had paid for it, when it occurred to me that I … Continue reading →

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Protected: You have heard of Gettysburg, but does it haunt you?

Posted on October 31, 2017 by Uncomely and Broken

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Damnatio Memoriae Sevaniae

Posted on October 29, 2017 by Uncomely and Broken

A year or so ago, I had an exchange with the United Daughter of the Confederacy about the monument to CSA General Edmund Kirby-Smith on the campus of the University of the South in Sewanee, TN, where I teach. My … Continue reading →

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Regnet Pax Omnem Per Terram

Posted on October 27, 2017 by Uncomely and Broken

This morning’s Sewanee Elementary School assembly was a real treat–this year’s petition for peace for the Peace Pole was in Latin: “Regnet Pax Omnem Per Terram.” To prepare, Kathryn Gotko Bruce had the 4th grade students do some study on … Continue reading →

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Capone among us

Posted on October 27, 2017 by Uncomely and Broken

This morning in McClurg, Jack Nance just told me a great story. Back in the 30s, he says, when Al Capone was being sent on his heavily-guarded way to the Atlanta Penitentiary for tax evasion, he went by way of … Continue reading →

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Protected: What’s in a Place-name?

Posted on October 25, 2017 by Uncomely and Broken

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Protected: But Let Judgment Run Down As Waters

Posted on September 20, 2017 by Uncomely and Broken

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Introduction to the revised edition of “Latin and Greek As Used at Sewanee”

Posted on April 8, 2017 by Uncomely and Broken

From a Sewanee Features piece last year, some of you will know that I am planning on publishing (at some point in the near but as yet undetermined future) a revised edition of the little pamphlet, Latin and Greek as … Continue reading →

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To Hear About a Martyr and a Hero

Posted on October 15, 2016 by Uncomely and Broken

I had been prepared yesterday to talk about kings and prophets, but instead got to hear about a martyr and a hero. Friday was the day before Fall Break here in Sewanee, and my last class of the week was the … Continue reading →

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Precious Moldering Pleasures

Posted on May 20, 2016 by Uncomely and Broken

A precious—mouldering pleasure—’tis— To meet an Antique Book— In just the Dress his Century wore— A privilege—I think— His venerable Hand to take— And warming in our own— A passage back—or two—to make— To Times when he—was young— His quaint … Continue reading →

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