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Topics of interest to Seton explored by the author of this site
Ernest Thompson Seton Gallery Visitors
The Seton Gallery at the Academy for the Love of Learning is officially open twice a month (second and fourth Wednesdays), but really is open any time I am there – a day or so every week and by appointment. Free admission. Late last month Japanese scholar of American...
Six Views of Seton Castle and the Academy
The following photographs were taken on August 14 (Ernest Thompson Seton's 154th birthday) in and around the campus of the Academy for the Love of Learning. (David L. Witt)
Woodcraft Helps Reduce Youth Crimes
An article from a British Columbia newspaper, the Gulf Islands Driftwood, September 18, 1991, subtitled, “Sociologist’s report credits nature-based movement,” validates Seton’s original purpose in creating his movement. The first Woodcraft camp took place in March...
Bird Portraits Exhibition Coming in August for Seton Birthday
This years display of Glandularia bipinnatifida - Dakota vervain - added wonderful color to the Castle. It is one of several plant species attracting insects and birds to the Academy for the Love of Learning campus this summer. Birds and bird lovers are invited to...
Our deepest feelings about nature
Periodically I make presentations on various aspects of Seton’s life and work at the Academy for the Love Of learning. The next one, with co-facilitator Molly Sturges, “Learning from Crisis: How Do We Meet This Ecological Emergency Together?” takes place on...
James West Has Never Seen The Blue Sky In His Life
After going to much effort to support Edgar M. Robinson (an executive with the YMCA) in the formation of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) during the summer of 1910, Ernest Thompson Seton soon found himself in conflict with BSA management. I have given an account of the...
Classics Illustrated Features Seton
Before the graphic novel, “Classics Illustrated, Featuring Stories by the World’s Greatest Authors,” put pictures to much abbreviated words retelling great stories from Alexandre Dumas and Daniel Defoe to Jack London and Ernest Thompson Seton. Several of these comic...
Animal Communication
The December 9, 2013 Time cover story – “America’s Pest Problem” – called for the mass extermination of wildlife. Apparently, wild animals are inconveniently in our way. This appallingly unconscious attitude suggests that, as pervasive as Seton’s influence is, that...
Buffalo Wind and Seton
October 23, 2013, 67th Anniversary of Seton’s Death In his short mystical essay, The Buffalo Wind (1938), Seton considered his own passing: The swift years have gone – the urge becomes a lash. I am going now – I am going with all my strength. So have I sought a...
Utah Rock Vandals Should Read Woodcraft Conservation Statement
Two Boy Scout troop leaders were in the news this week and last for vandalizing a geological formation in Utah. Destruction of our natural and national heritage is of course contrary to the most basic principles of Scouting and Woodcraft. This reckless and stupid...
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