by David L. Witt | Nov 29, 2024 | Curator's Notes
The Natural History of the Ten Commandments by Ernest Thompson Seton must be his most unusual book. While he had significant grounding in fundamentalist—Calvinist bible study, he had long since given up on organized Christianity. Published in 1907 (the same year as...
by David L. Witt | Aug 14, 2024 | Curator's Notes
Best Wishes for 1919 by Ernest Thompson Seton Several years ago, I mentioned five categories of major life accomplishments of Ernest Thompson Seton. His consciousness raising about the consciousness of animals would have been an extraordinary achievement even had...
by David L. Witt | Aug 2, 2024 | Curator's Notes
For decades I have held a personal concern for how frequently Ernest Thompson Seton has been left out of American and world history. More on that another time. For today, following is an article distributed by “Google Alert–Ernest Thompson Seton”...
by David L. Witt | Mar 22, 2024 | Curator's Notes
The on-line version of britannica.com gives a short (and misleading) answer to the question: Who founded the Boy Scouts? Their short answer is: Robert Baden-Powell (a.k.a. “B-P”). But that asks the wrong question, so let’s rephrase: Who came up with the idea that led...
by David L. Witt | Feb 15, 2024 | Curator's Notes
Prior to the purchase of Seton Castle by the Academy for the Love of Learning in 2003, the northwest facing corner looked like–a mess! During the 2005 renovation, all the junk and the attached building on the right were removed. The catastrophic fire of November...
by David L. Witt | Dec 23, 2023 | Curator's Notes
I hope that greenwichtime.com won’t mind too much if I give them a bit of promotion. Photographer and staff writer Andy Blye (Hearst Connecticut Media and greenwichtime.com) has updated us on Pomerance Park in an article picked up by Google Alerts. This was one...
