Concord, Mass. — Jasmine Sings Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson tells us in “Self-Reliance” there is “creative reading as well as creative writing.” I ask students in survey classes to respond creatively to any one work we have read over the semester. I leave the medium open, except...

Concord, Mass. — Author’s Ridge

“Sometime in your life you may have to work some suck ass job.” Students in my Hawthorne class flip Spring Break, journey from Florida to Massachusetts. In ten feet of snow. They make this extraordinary video about The Scarlet Letter, “The Custom...