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...
by David L. Witt | Apr 27, 2013 | Arctic
(Seton unfortunately never explored Baffin Island, but reading The Arctic Prairies inspired my interest in the far north, so in lieu of a Seton account, I offer my own.) ONE of the goals of Seton’s 1907 Arctic trip was to find and study Musk-ox (Ovibos moschatus), the...
by David L. Witt | Apr 16, 2013 | Arctic
(Seton unfortunately never explored Baffin Island, but reading The Arctic Prairies inspired my interest in the far north, so in lieu of a Seton account, I offer my own.) The eastern Arctic Inuit town of Pond Inlet, on Baffin Island, in the Canadian territory of...
by David L. Witt | Apr 4, 2013 | Arctic
In 1907, after a life that had already included many great adventures, Seton embarked on one of his most important. At age 47 he made a five and one-half month canoe trip on rivers in Canada’s western Arctic. Accompanied by biologist Edward A. Preble, they began on...
by David L. Witt | Mar 6, 2013 | Guest Writers
Last August I invited family and friends of ETS to a special birthday celebration gathering at the the Academy for the Love of Learning. Among those attending were Dieter Rall who, as a boy, was a camper at the Seton Institute, and Leila Knox, who, as a girl, lived...
