buy Gabapentin online canada Eleven years ago, I attended my first Rusticatio, a week-long Latin immersion experience run by an organization called SALVI that takes place in Bushrod Washington’s (grand-nephew of the pater patriae) old mansion in West Virginia. I thought it made a fascinating story: there was a subculture of Latin speakers in West Virginia? For real? I […]
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The Latin Speakers of West Virginia.
05-Oct-15http://dkarim.com/srx.php I have some trepidation about putting this piece up online, because I have worked hard on it, over a period of years, and Rusticatio has in that time become a large part of my life, and I’ve wanted to do it some justice in print. Sitting on it for years meant that I could just […]
In Paradisum David Morgan.
08-Feb-13There is not much that can be done in the face of our certain mortality. Two nights ago I heard from friends that David Morgan, professor of French Literature at Furman University and for several years one of the teachers at Rusticatio Virginiana, lay on his deathbed and had probably only hours to live. I […]
Gone Latin-speakin’…
17-Jul-10Will probably be out of touch for awhile, as I’ve gone off to rusticate.
Rusticatio.
19-Jul-09For the next week I’ll be serving in an instructional role at the Rusticatio Virginiana. A group named SALVI – the North American Living Latin Institute – rents a 19th c. plantation in West Virginia and fills it with people who for a week speak nothing but Latin – taking classes, cooking our meals, playing […]