The American Minerva
Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Groundhog Day.

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It's about time to clear up confusion about Groundhog Day, and the alleged prognosticatorial predictions of marmots. In winter, at least...
Friday, December 25, 2009

Christmas Adventures Among the Episcopalians

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I was grounded in Middletown and had eaten far too much for dinner,—and it was Christmas Eve, so, given all these variables and many others,...
Monday, August 10, 2009

The Dukes of Rensselaer

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I grew up in Center Brunswick. The desolate wastelands, the blasted heaths of Center Brunswick. Center Brunswick is a village, a hamlet, a n...
Monday, July 13, 2009

The face of Zeus

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I've been working on an online 3-D reconstruction of the Temple of Zeus in Olympia. I'm trying to be very rigorous in my accuracy. T...
Thursday, May 14, 2009

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St. Clement's, or the Taylor Estate, was an extensive manorial pile in Portland, Connecticut. No one has probably ever exerted themselve...
Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Pavane pour une infante défunte

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So, there's been a shooting at Wesleyan. Alas, poor us. There will be posts, blogs, articles, eulogies, and lamentations. And they will ...
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Monday, March 16, 2009

You randy scamp, you...

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How come the only time I get referred to as a ‘Gentleman’ I’m doing something possibly, vaguely, naughty. In a few decades, the character of...
Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Thank you, Paul Simon

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Does anyone know what ‘The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls’ means? I mean, does that sentence mean ...
Thursday, February 5, 2009

Driving in the Berkshires

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Massachusetts Pike, near West Beckett, Massachusetts; southern spur of Lenox Mountain in far distance, (approx. 14 mi.). (Photo taken at a s...
Wednesday, February 4, 2009

On archæology

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The nice thing about archæology is that at least the dead don't bother you with all sorts of petty issues.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Mount Greylock

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Mount Greylock over frozen Pontoosuc Lake, Lanesborough, Massachusetts
Monday, January 19, 2009

Shag Carpeting

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Shag carpeting is an amazing idea. Apparently in the late 50's and early 60's, those clever guys at DuPont found that their new poly...
Tuesday, December 23, 2008

On Christian charity

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Last Monday, an F/A-18D Hornet crashed into a neighborhood near MCAS Miramar in San Diego. The pilot ejected shortly before impact as he was...
Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Santa

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Mapquest or Garmin or Onstar or somebody is running an advert about a call from very young children trying to find out where Santa is on Chr...
Saturday, December 6, 2008

Highways and hillsides

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I like driving Route 9 from Old Saybrook to Middletown. It's one place where a man can drive like a man, —and the road has curves like a...
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