News from the Front Porch Republic
Greetings from the Porch, One of the interesting local places we've discovered this summer is Bicycle Heaven, the world's largest bicycle museum with nearly...
News from the Front Porch Republic
Greetings from the Porch, This week we took a stroll through the nearby patch of prairie at Jennings Environmental Education Center. It is one of the...
News from the Front Porch Republic
Greetings from the Porch, We've been enjoying lots of fresh garden produce--yellow squash, tomatoes, green beans, broccoli, cucumbers. Nothing beats truly...
News from the Front Porch Republic
Greetings from the Porch, It’s peak firefly season here in Pennsylvania, and it’s quite a treat to watch the neighborhood yards turn into a light show each...
News from the Front Porch Republic
Greetings from the Porch, We’ve been picking blueberries, eating the squash and tomatoes and green beans from our garden, and enjoying mild summer temps here...
News from the Front Porch Republic
Greetings from the Porch, I’m grateful to Sarah Soltis, Doug Sikkema, and Matt Stewart for keeping the lights on at FPR while I enjoyed a month offline. Lots...
News from the Front Porch Republic: Tending and Attending
Greetings from the Porch, As June wanes, the raspberry bushes in our garden are prospering. A friend unexpectedly gifted me with a jar of black raspberry jam...
News from the Front Porch Republic: Practicing Virtuous Forms
Greetings from the Porch, Thanks to yesterday’s Supreme Court decision, as well as this past week’s posts at FPR, I’ve been thinking about what virtue in...
News from the Front Porch Republic: How Do We Live in Community?
Greetings from the Porch, Midsummer approaches, and the long light astounds me each evening. To watch the evenings transpire from a literal front porch is,...
News from the Front Porch Republic
Greetings from the Porch, For me, this week held several bonfires, morning walks, and mountainside scrambles mixed among my everyday tasks and work - a good...
News from the Front Porch Republic
Hello from the Porch! If we haven't met, I'm Sarah Soltis, Managing Editor at FPR. I hope to meet or catch up with you in a few months at our fall conference...
News from the Front Porch Republic
Greetings from the Porch, I’m taking the month of June off from email and Internet. FPR remains in good hands for my absence, however, and we have some...
News from the Front Porch Republic
Greetings from the Porch, We haven't had an FPR conference since 2019 when we gathered in Louisville and were joined by Wendell Berry. But plans are shaping...
News from the Front Porch Republic
Greetings from the Porch, This week has been a whirl. I’ve been grading final essays and spending every spare minute getting my garden ready to be planted....
News from the Front Porch Republic
Greetings from the Porch, This week we took a field trip to the Hurry Hill Maple Farm Museum, a museum inspired by the Newbery-Award-winning book Miracles on...
News from the Front Porch Republic
Greetings from the Porch, The redbud trees are in full bloom. What more can be said about such glorious trees? In this week’s Water Dipper I recommend pieces...
News from the Front Porch Republic
Greetings from the Porch, I’m building several raised beds for our garden, and while it’s a lot of work this first year, I’m hoping this work will establish...
News from the Front Porch Republic
Greetings from the Porch, The daffodils are in peak glory around here, and many other plants are beginning to bud. So despite the fits and starts, spring's...
News from the Front Porch Republic
Greetings from the Porch, We’ve announced the date (Sept. 24) and location (Grove City College) and keynote (Chris Arnade) for our fall conference. We’ll...
News from the Front Porch Republic
Greetings from the Porch, We had a bitter cold stretch this week that, I fear, killed all the blossoms on our peach tree. So I can relate to what Matt Miller...