Kelly has been working diligently for many years to reproduce Anna Comstock’s Handbook of Nature Study (HONS) notebooks. These notebooks are not as well known..

The longer I taught and the more life experience I gained, the more I saw the practical wisdom offered in the Plutarch biographies. He was as much a philosopher as a historian and he vividly illustrates for us the relationship between virtue and happiness, without conflating happiness with money or power.

T he imagination is a wonderful thing. I loved watching my kids come up with wild and crazy ideas and then play for hours outside in the little wooded area near our home. But I’ve come to realize that the imagination is just as vital for adults as it is for children.