Wilderness
Backpacking, canoeing, camping and outdoor skills in Tennessee, and the case for wilderness in the formation of boys and men. Meriwether Academy leads men’s backpacking trips and father-son trips from Nashville; current trips are on our events page.
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A Night on the Buffalo River
An overnight canoe voyage on Tennessee’s Buffalo River, and why time in nature matters for men.
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Waking Up The Wild Man
Why every boy carries a wild man inside him, and how a father can wake him up and tame him.
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The Mountain as Man’s Quest in Desire
Reflections on desire and the summit, from a winter climb of Mount Wrightson in Arizona.
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A Cabin at Walden Pond
The life of Henry David Thoreau and what his cabin at Walden Pond still teaches about living deliberately.
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‘So Hard to Die’: Meriwether’s March Across the Continent
Warren Steury on the life and legacy of Meriwether Lewis, perhaps America’s most neglected hero.
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A Crossroads of Frontiers: The Wagon Box
A weekend at The Wagon Box in Story, Wyoming, where the frontier spirit lives on in conversation.
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Walking With Thoreau
Why Thoreau treated a walk as a spiritual initiation, and what we lose by no longer walking.
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The Quiet Commander: William Clark and the Character of a Leader
The character of William Clark, the steady co-leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
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Transcendentalism for the Modern Man: A Compass Toward a Wiser Life
The core ideas of the American Transcendentalists and how to live them today.
