restless reformer

I’ll be there.  Here are the details, copied straight from Bill Chellis at De Regno Christi:
If you live in or near Rochester allow me to invite you to the Old Toad this Thursday at 5:00 p.m. Bill Kauffman will be joining us to discussion his recent books. Bill is a Western New York legend and has […]

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Washington Irving embedded a comical criticism of the way people in modern society uproot in his classic story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow:
There is no encouragement for ghosts in most of our villages, for, they have scarcely had time to finish their first nap, and turn themselves in their graves, before their surviving friends have […]

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Bill Kauffman lives about an hour from me, in Batavia, NY, where I spent my first two years of undergrad (good ol’ GCC).  Politically, he’s a conservative/libertarian and a localist, and he’s written a few books that are on my reading list.  I’ll be able to meet him in a few weeks, as he’ll be […]

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Apparently the Great Old Ones and the shoggoths are in favor of simple country life:
Evidently their scientific and mechanical knowledge far surpassed man’s today, though they made use of its more widespread and elaborate forms only when obliged to. Some of the sculptures suggested that they had passed through a stage of […]

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