For Zio Pietro Bonventre

When I saw an essay by Joan Didion in the Dec. 5, 1976 New York Times Book Review called “Why I Write,” I was taken in right away.

For two great teachers:

Arthur Willis and Lydia Tobler
 

In a speech given to the House of Commons in 1948, Winston Churchill issued — the hot breath of war still blowing on the neck of Europe — a warning to the world: “Those who fail to learn from histo

I thought it might be worthwhile for our readers to know that this past Saturday, Jan.

How ironic that, as the tides of our nation’s identity have taken on a darker hue, those with an interest in living in a society, in communities, neighborhoods, and families where people support ea

As regular readers of “Field Notes” in The Enterprise know, on occasion I have alluded to a personality test I was developing that I now call the Personality Assessment Inventory, the PAI.

When I started teaching many years ago, one of the maxims I kept primed in my pedagogical kit bag was “repetitio est mater studiorum” which translates to “repetition is the mother of learn

He chintzed on his gift to his God, which he got as a gift from God’s soil.  

Dear graduates in our towns and villages hereabouts:

Because I studied ancient Greek and Latin for many years, I developed a love for the Greek language — its unadorned sophistication — as well as for the great tragedians of fifth-century-before-Chri