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…
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I always thought this old Disney cartoon about Ben Franklin and Amos the mouse was a good dramatic way to enter into the days of the founding fathers. It’s a…
The below excerpt is from a great book by Padriac Colum titled The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Before Achilles. I think boys would like education more if Chiron was their…
After only five lessons, the Riverside Folk Minstrels are already sounding great together! In this video you will see them jamming on “Boil Them Cabbage Down,” an old-time favorite for…
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 following is an excerpt from the book About Books and Children by Bess Porter Adams. In my last post I quoted this wonderful little book from a chapter on…
Imagine a small troupe of young writers and speakers reading great literature, publishing journals and newspapers on a variety of topics; producing radio shows, short documentaries, and performing dialogues and…
Filmmaking is probably the most fun activity you can engage in this world. What could be more fun than getting together with your buddies, dreaming up a new world, and…