by David L. Witt | Sep 20, 2013 | Seton Annotated Publications
The Ernest Thompson Seton novel “The Preacher of Cedar Mountain” seems unusual at first reading, but, as it turns out, more for its format than its content. Published in 1917 while Seton still had a contract with Doubleday, it was an attempt at publishing a...
by David L. Witt | Aug 10, 2013 | Curator's Notes
Seton Birthday Reception and Gallery Opening Join the Academy for the Love of Learning and Curator of the Seton collection, David L. Witt, for the opening of a new exhibit. Seton and the Quest to Save Nature In 1893, on the winter plains of...
by David L. Witt | Jul 17, 2013 | Curator's Notes
Members of the Saudi Arabian Scouts Association visited Seton Castle and the gallery at the Academy for the Love of Learning on June 27th. Twelve adult Scout leaders (one of whom took this picture), two interpreters, and local Santa Fe Scouter Grant Wright were in the...
by David L. Witt | Jun 24, 2013 | Curator's Notes
In his Forward to Ernest Thompson Seton, Founder of the Woodcraft Movement 1860-1946 (London: The Edwin Mellon Press, 2007), Seton biographer Brian Morris took on the puzzling issue of why Seton has been largely left out of 20thcentury history. “Perhaps Seton, by the...
by David L. Witt | May 17, 2013 | Curator's Notes
Woodcraft Rangers 90th Anniversary Celebration at La Plaza de Cultura y Artes, May 8, 2013 One hundred and eleven years ago Ernest Thompson Seton found a unique solution to a special problem. In time, this solution would lead several hundred million children around...
