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…
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…
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…
The below excerpt is from a a wonderful book called Why Johnny Can’t Tell Right from Wrong by William Kilpatrick. In the chapter “Life is a story” Mr. Kilpatrick analyzes two…
One of my favorite paintings is by Norman Rockwell. It is called The Shipbuilder, and it is the theme picture for this blog, so go back and look at it again….