Annette Kirk was kind enough to sit down with me to talk on a recent visit to Piety Hill in Mecosta, Michigan in the brick Italianate home that she and Russell Kirk built a half century ago.
Annette talks about growing up on Long Island, her activist mother, being present in the early days of the conservative movement at William F. Buckley’s home, and later meeting Russell Kirk. We discuss the culture shock of moving to rural Michigan, how their home became a magnet for refugees from around the world, and the work of the Kirk Center over the past 27 years. Plus, Annette tells the story of being kidnapped in her own car.
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CD 43 - Holly Ordway on Tolkien's Faith
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Bookish Questions - Allen Mendenhall
Bookish Questions - Gary Gregg
CD 42 - Feasting With Caitlin Smith Gilson
CD 41 - Laird Mackintosh: The Last Phantom
CD 40 - Dale Ahlquist on G.K. Chesterton
CD 39 - Ferenc Horcher On Roger Scruton
CD 38 - John Herreid & Contemporary Catholic Art
CD 37 - Eduard Habsburg & The Habsburg Way
CD 36 - Kathryn Wehr On Dorothy Sayers and ’The Man Born to Be King’
CD 35 - Eric Twardzik & American Ivy Style
CD 34 - Holly Ordway & Sharing the Gospel Through Literature
CD 33 - Kevin Gutzman on The Jeffersonians
CD 32 - Raj Bhakta & (Very) Old Armagnac
CD 31 - Os Guinness & The Great Quest
CD 29 - Luke Sheahan on The University Bookman and Academic Freedom
CD 28 - Jason M. Baxter & The Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis
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