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Mount Wonder – a novel inspired by IHP

15
Dec 2022
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My dad wrote a novel called Mount Wonder. It’s a romance based on his personal experiences in the Integrated Humanities Program (IHP) at KU in the 70’s. Given how influential that program has been for American Catholicism and with all of the issues in academia today, and because it’s a totally wild adventure, you’ll enjoy […]

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Wendell Berry

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Mar 2012
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Exciting news, read on! Tulsa World Farmer, poet Wendell Berry to receive Tulsa library’s Helmerich award  BY MICHAEL OVERALL World Staff Writer Sunday, March 25, 2012 He’s either a leftist or a right-wing extremist, a liberal revolutionary or a retrograde conservative.  “I’ve been called a communist and a fascist,” admits Wendell Berry. “But I’m glad […]

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