festival Archives : Professor Carol

The Annual Onion Festival

June 6, 2017October 6, 2015 by Professor Carol

That’s right. Onions! Onion bread, onion necklaces, onion toys, and onion songs. It’s that time of year again: the Zwiebelfest (Onion Festival) in Weimar. There seems to be nothing that doesn’t benefit from an onion or two, or twenty. These little figures on the left … Read more

The Weimar Onion Festival

June 6, 2017October 27, 2013 by Professor Carol

We will have missed the Onion Market when we get to Weimar next week. Now in its 360th year, the ultra German Onion Festival (Zweibelmarkt) will be a memory. A scent in the air, you might say. Yup, onions. You should see the weeks of … Read more

And Then There's This . . .

Vince Bielski, When Classical Learning Meets Public Education the Dialogue Isn’t Always Socratic. “Classical education, whose name gained traction in the 1980s to evoke the movement’s focus on liberal arts and the Western canon, is struggling to overcome local political opposition.”

Peter Wood, After College: The Coming Cultural Collapse of Higher Education. “Students graduate with a veneer of knowledge rather than a core. An increasingly obsolescent institution has wedded itself to an increasingly noisome cultural stance.”

Anthony Esolen, Heap Songs Upon Their Heads. “We are the most beauty-starved people, I am persuaded, who have ever trod the earth.”

Gregory Wolfe, The Wound of Beauty. “The time has come to bring beauty back, to give it the glass slipper and invite it to the prom.”