Category Archives: Trees & Flowers

Protected: At Zora’s Grave

Posted on May 27, 2016 by

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Posted in Animals, Bible, Cemeteries & Funerals, Race, The South, Trees & Flowers, Uncategorized

Interview with Chrigel Glanzmann of Eluveitie

Posted on July 7, 2015 by

Below is an exchange I had recently with Chrigel Glanzmann, the lead singer of Eluveitie, the Swiss folk metal band on whose work I’m writing I’ve written an essay (comparing it to Charles Gleyre’s “The Romans Going Under the Yoke”).  … Continue reading →

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Protected: Ave atque Vale, Treebeard

Posted on January 9, 2015 by

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Posted in Oxford, Poetry, Sewanee, Trees & Flowers

Mine 21 documentary maybe?

Posted on December 4, 2014 by

A letter I sent off for funding a documentary.  Something I have no training for whatsoever. We shall see … Prof. Linda Mayes & Prof. Karen Yu Directors, Collaborative for Southern Appalachian and Place-Based Studies December 4, 2014 Dear Linda … Continue reading →

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Hunters, 5 a.m.

Posted on October 6, 2014 by

For no good reason, I’m up before dawn and go into the living room to look out the window. Through the clouds the stars can be made out here and there. My dogs stir but I don’t let them out. … Continue reading →

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Hrothgar’s Grave

Posted on October 4, 2014 by

Go behind Bairnwick, toward a small stand of oaks and the swamp leading to Stirling’s, and you will see the gravestone of Hrothgar. Who was Hrothgar, you ask?  He was an English bulldog, much beloved in Sewanee over half a … Continue reading →

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Protected: Goodbye Little Yellow House

Posted on September 4, 2014 by

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Posted in Dogs, Family, Sewanee, Trees & Flowers

Along the Duck River

Posted on July 19, 2014 by
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Protected: Guys as Grapes

Posted on March 4, 2014 by

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Posted in Cartoons, Classics, Emblems, Mythology, Trees & Flowers

Date on the Cornerstone of Walsh-Ellett, Sewanee

Posted on January 27, 2014 by

Perhaps the most charming spot on the Sewanee campus is Guerry Garth, the green space between Convocation Hall, Guerry Auditorium, and Walsh-Ellett Hall–I have often taught classes here, near the large gingko in the middle, while Breslin Tower chimed away … Continue reading →

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