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May 6, 2023
Greetings from the Porch, The spring issue of Local Culture is heading to the printer this week. It’s a beautiful issue that will make for a mouth-watering...
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April 29, 2023
Greetings from the Porch, Our apple trees and new blueberry bushes are in full bloom, so I’m hoping we don’t get another hard frost. In this week’s Water...
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April 22, 2023
Greetings from the Porch, Spring is springing here now, and the redbuds are in their full glory. In this week's Water Dipper I recommend essays about...
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April 15, 2023
Greetings from the Porch, I spent the last couple of days in Oklahoma City talking with faculty and students at The Academy, a thriving classical school...
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April 8, 2023
Greetings from the Porch, Our radishes and snow peas got delayed by some cold nights, but they are making up for lost time now. I’m looking forward to the...
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April 1, 2023
Greetings from the Porch, Even though we had some snow here this week, I know it’s spring because baseball has returned. In this week’s Water Dipper I...
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March 25, 2023
Greetings from the Porch, The spring issue of Local Culture is coming together nicely. If you want to gather with some other FPR readers in your area to...
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March 18, 2023
Greetings from the Porch, This week Plough released the cover for a book I’m co-editing that’s been in the works for a couple years now. It’s been a very...
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March 11, 2023
Greetings from the Porch, We’re back in snowy Pennsylvania after a few days of hiking around Joshua Tree National Park. The plants and rock formations in the...
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March 4, 2023
Greetings from the Porch, We arrived in Santa Barbara in the wake of rain and hail and the midst of strong winds. But the sun came out, and I can see why...
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February 25, 2023
Greetings from the Porch, I'm preparing to head to Westmont College for a conference on the liberal arts, so I likely won't have time to compile a Water...
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February 18, 2023
Greetings from the Porch, We’re beginning to fill out the schedule for our fall gathering in Madison, WI; stay tuned for more details in the coming weeks....
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February 11, 2023
Greetings from the Porch, This week the group Kittle and Co performed in Grove City. They are talented musicians, and I particularly enjoyed watching Simon...
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February 4, 2023
Greetings from the Porch, We’re in the grip of a cold spell right now, but my seed order came this week (which made me think of Matt Miller’s delightful...
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January 28, 2023
Greetings from the Porch, It's been a hectic week with the beginning of the semester and work on our house, but it's always a delight to be back in the...
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January 21, 2023
Greetings from the Porch, I’m writing from the Rome airport, so I’ll make this brief. It has been, however, a full week of new essays at FPR. Adam Smith...
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January 14, 2023
Greetings from the Porch, Our first week in Italy has been a rich one. Our departure was rather harried, however, because we discovered a burst and leaking...
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January 7, 2023
Greetings from the Porch, I’m preparing to leave for Italy to spend two weeks with a group of students in Rome and Florence. We’ve been reading Virgil,...
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December 31, 2022
Greetings from the Porch, I hope your Christmas celebrations are continuing apace. We've been enjoying many celebrations with family and the excuse to cook...
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December 24, 2022
Greetings from the Porch, The snow and ice storms that have hit large swaths of the US this week have certainly disrupted plans and brought cold and darkness...
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December 17, 2022
Greetings from the Porch, This past week I signed a contract with Baylor Press to publish a book considering how imaginative responses to the challenges of...
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December 10, 2022
Greetings from the Porch, Due to a conflict with the U of Wisconsin's homecoming, we've had to change the date for next year's FPR conference. It's now...
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December 3, 2022
Greetings from the Porch, I hope you all weren’t too disappointed that no fundraising email from FPR landed in your email inboxes on Giving Tuesday. I think...
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November 26, 2022
Greetings from the Porch, We had a wonderful Thanksgiving week seeing good friends, enjoying the beautiful weather, and--of course--making and eating much...
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November 19, 2022
Greetings from the Porch, Winter weather has arrived in western Pennsylvania, just in time for Thanksgiving. I’m grateful that we’re just south of the snow...
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November 12, 2022
Greetings from the Porch, We’ve got a date, location, and keynote speaker lined up for our 2023 conference. Make plans to join us. And if you’re interested...
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November 5, 2022
Greetings from the Porch, The fall issue of Local Culture is in production and should be on its way to subscribers early next week. Thanks to all of you who...
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October 29, 2022
Greetings from the Porch, The fall issue of Local Culture is in production and should be on its way to subscribers early next week. Thanks to all of you who...
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October 22, 2022
Greetings from the Porch, If the opening editorial to the Roger Scruton issue of Local Culture whets your appetite, subscribe by the end of this weekend to...
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October 15, 2022
Greetings from the Porch, One of my colleagues has a few pawpaw trees in his backyard, and he and his wife generously shared some fruit with us. What a weird...
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October 8, 2022
Greetings from the Porch, It's been a busy week on the porch as we've been publishing responses to Wendell Berry's new book, Need to Be Whole. While these...
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October 1, 2022
Greetings from the Porch, It was a delight seeing many old friends and fellow Porchers at our conference last weekend. Thanks to all who came! I share some...
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September 24, 2022
Greetings from the Porch, We’re getting ready to gather today at Grove City College for our first conference since 2019, when we were in Louisville where...
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September 17, 2022
Greetings from the Porch, I’ve been busy with last-minute details for next week’s conference, and things are shaping up for a great gathering. Today’s the...
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September 10, 2022
Greetings from the Porch, We had an ice cream social this week for our neighborhood, and it was great to spend an evening hanging out with the people who...
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September 3, 2022
Greetings from the Porch, We’ve now posted the schedule for the fall conference, which is happening in just three weeks. Registration closes a week before...
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August 27, 2022
Greetings from the Porch, The semester is underway now, and the first week has gone well. We’re also at work on the final details for next month’s...
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August 20, 2022
Greetings from the Porch, We've been canning, freezing, drying, and eating all the garden produce we can this week. It's that season of bounty, and the fact...
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August 13, 2022
Greetings from the Porch, One of the interesting local places we've discovered this summer is Bicycle Heaven, the world's largest bicycle museum with nearly...
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August 6, 2022
Greetings from the Porch, This week we took a stroll through the nearby patch of prairie at Jennings Environmental Education Center. It is one of the...
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July 30, 2022
Greetings from the Porch, We've been enjoying lots of fresh garden produce--yellow squash, tomatoes, green beans, broccoli, cucumbers. Nothing beats truly...
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July 23, 2022
Greetings from the Porch, It’s peak firefly season here in Pennsylvania, and it’s quite a treat to watch the neighborhood yards turn into a light show each...
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July 16, 2022
Greetings from the Porch, We’ve been picking blueberries, eating the squash and tomatoes and green beans from our garden, and enjoying mild summer temps here...
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July 9, 2022
Greetings from the Porch, I’m grateful to Sarah Soltis, Doug Sikkema, and Matt Stewart for keeping the lights on at FPR while I enjoyed a month offline. Lots...
News from the Front Porch Republic: Tending and Attending
July 2, 2022
Greetings from the Porch, As June wanes, the raspberry bushes in our garden are prospering. A friend unexpectedly gifted me with a jar of black raspberry jam...
News from the Front Porch Republic: Practicing Virtuous Forms
June 25, 2022
Greetings from the Porch, Thanks to yesterday’s Supreme Court decision, as well as this past week’s posts at FPR, I’ve been thinking about what virtue in...
News from the Front Porch Republic: How Do We Live in Community?
June 18, 2022
Greetings from the Porch, Midsummer approaches, and the long light astounds me each evening. To watch the evenings transpire from a literal front porch is,...
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June 11, 2022
Greetings from the Porch, For me, this week held several bonfires, morning walks, and mountainside scrambles mixed among my everyday tasks and work - a good...
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June 4, 2022
Hello from the Porch! If we haven't met, I'm Sarah Soltis, Managing Editor at FPR. I hope to meet or catch up with you in a few months at our fall conference...
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May 28, 2022
Greetings from the Porch, I’m taking the month of June off from email and Internet. FPR remains in good hands for my absence, however, and we have some...
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