In September Folk Session start up again at Mayslake Peabody Estate. The video on this post manifests the end goal of the Folk Sessions—helping families develop an authentic musical culture….
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My last post was about the relationship between apprenticeship and education. Here is a great clip of the famous bluegrass/folk guitarist Doc Watson with his family and Earl Scruggs playing…
I was recently reading about Super Soakers and how that single invention made children of the 90’s both extraordinarily happy and masters of water warfare. This amazing toy changed…
Click here to read the article in the Atlantic Monthly The recent article in the Atlantic, How Finland Keeps Kids Focused Through Free Play, is a brief interesting article on…
Click here to read Robert Littel’s essay. With Father’s Day just around the corner, I figure that posting Robert Littel’s famous essay on “What the Young Man Should Know” is…
Click here to listen to the speech. Rangers, listen to this famous and inspiring speech by President Ronald Reagan speaking on the cliffs of Normandy about that fateful day when…
One of the great writers of the 20th century, G.K. Chesterton, is one of Riverside’s patrons. On this wonderful day when we celebrate and remember our mothers, I share with…
This post continues our Riverside Tutorial expose. The Logician thinks clearly from well-scrutinized first principles. He examines arguments with a dissecting eye, can see the causes inherent in a variety…
The attached video clip is of a Riverside Folk Session guitarist playing a flat picking version of a Johnny Cash tune, Walk the Line. Riverside Folk sessions train aspiring young…
At Riverside Tutorial, we have created six honorifics-Loremaster, Wordsmith, Bard, Logician, Orator, and Scribe – each of which designate a person who has mastered a certain set of skills, all…