http://rockfordinstitute.org/events Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:52:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Rockford Institute, publisher of Chronicles, presents the Thirteenth Annual Summer School: Arthur and Alfred: The Anglo-Saxons Rockford, Illinois • July 6-11, 2010 Theme Only a few Americans know that Hengist and Horsa were the legendary chiefs who led the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain, but Thomas Jefferson wanted to put the pair on the Great ... http://rockfordinstitute.org/events/?p=54 Tom Fleming is bringing his “Message of Hope to a Beleaguered Nation!” This spring, the editor of Chronicles and his lovely wife, Gail, will be motoring from Rockford, Illinois, to San Antonio, Texas. If you live along the way or within driving distance of Tom’s route and would like to ... http://rockfordinstitute.org/events/?p=42 Please join us at a reception for Thomas Fleming, editor of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. Dr. Fleming will deliver a brief talk entitled "Bucking the Trends: Contrarian Reasons to be Optimistic." Wednesday, April 7 5:30 - 7:00 PM Savoy Grill 219 West 9th Street, Kansas City, MO 64105 Ask hostess for Rockford Institute ... http://rockfordinstitute.org/events/?p=51 Please join us for a talk on Christian Marriage by Dr. Thomas Fleming, editor of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. Dr. Fleming will deliver a talk entitled: "It Was Not So in the Beginning: Understanding Christian Marriage.” 12:30 PM, (after the noon mass) Friday, April 9 Holy Family Cathedral 122 W. ... http://rockfordinstitute.org/events/?p=48 We have a few dollars to subsidize attendance of the John Randolph Club by graduate and undergraduate students.  (One donor to the fund specifically asked for students from Texas to be given consideration.) Applicants should submit an essay answering the question below, as well as a 750-1,000 word prose description of ... http://rockfordinstitute.org/events/?p=41 Join us for Winter School 2010! Whenever the conversation turns to some fundamental institution of our civilization, we say, “The Greeks had a word for it.”  They did: philosophy and theology, mathematics and geometry, epic, tragedy, comedy, and history, politics, democracy—and demagoguery.  The ancient Greeks invented or elevated all these arts ... http://rockfordinstitute.org/events/?p=40 The Rockford Institute and Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture present The 20th Annual Meeting of the John Randolph Club “The Future of America: Hell or Texas?” November 13-14, 2009 San Antonio, Texas [Click here to download and print a registration form.] THEME “You may all go to Hell; I will go to Texas,” said David ... http://rockfordinstitute.org/events/?p=39 The Rockford Institute and Chronicles present a North American Convivium, September 3-8, 2009 "Enduring Québec" The story of Québec is an amazing tale of cultural survival.  It begins with brave men—French, English, and American, who fought for Québec, including the gallant Montcalm who died defending the city on the Plains of Abraham and the bold ... http://rockfordinstitute.org/events/?p=38 [Click here for more registration information, or call (800) 383-0680 to register today.] When I was growing up, Masterpiece Theater was standard Sunday-night fare on our 13-inch color Zenith.  We also watched Monty Python and Mystery.  It is not that we never watched American programs, but we believed that Brits had it all over us when it came ... http://rockfordinstitute.org/events/?p=36 Join us in Rockford, Illinois, the headquarters of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, for The Rockford Institute's 12th Annual Summer School: "The American West." Theme Robert Frost held that Americans only became American in the process of fighting wars and moving west.  So much of the American identity, in fact, finds ... http://rockfordinstitute.org/events/?p=35