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When I was a child, both my grandfathers filled me with wondrous stories of my Scottish ancestors.Β While at bedtime mum was spinning faerytales and ππͺπππΊ ππ°π’π΅π΄ ππ³πΆπ§π§, my grandfathers used my mind as a repository for history that should not be lost.Β Little did I comprehend they were cultivating my growing imagination, feeding my fascination with the past, and hoping to create the next historian in the family.Β
It has been said over and over that you can never go home again, but whoever wrote that never went to Campbellsville.
In the mid 1980s, I was the associate director of the American Studies Center at the University of Warsaw, a job furnished by Indiana University and the Polish government, the first of which sent me there in exchange for Warsaw sending to IU Bloomington an associate director of Polish Studies.
So many wonderful things are associated with Christmas that writers can take advantage of. Holidays, phobias, strange traditions, town names, Santaβs darker side, and more can be found in these articles written especially for Christmas.
“No one will say that a lively sense of history is one of the intellectual virtues of the American people,” wrote Lionel Trilling in his introduction to πβπ ππππππ ππ‘π’ππ¦, a collection of very high-level essays on Great Books of the Western Tradition.
Have you ever stayed at a haunted hotel? Visited a haunted library? Have you ever celebrated Frankenstein Friday or Haunted Refrigerator Night? Do you suffer from nyctohylophobia or phagophobia?
