Jeff Minick
Author
Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
LATEST
This Veterans Day, Remembering the Courage of Veterans and Noncombatants Alike
Behind every soldier are those who support off the battlefield and at home.
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Family Heirlooms: Your Story Is Part of Your Legacy
From childhood mischief to hard-won wisdom, the tales of our elders are family heirlooms waiting to be told and preserved.
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The Making of a Miracle Worker: Anne Sullivan
This installment of When Character Counted casts a light on the making of the young teacher who opened the world to a blind and deaf student.
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Two Sides of a Shield: Authors Mary Johnston and Margaret Mitchell
Two Southern women, decades apart, brought the Civil War to life in haunting fiction.
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Inside Ireland’s First Classical Academy
When Padraig and Grace Cantillon-Murphy founded Mater Dei Academy, they didn’t know they were starting a revival.
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Father to the Man: The Boyhood of Winston Churchill
The great British prime minister’s formative years were difficult but helped immensely by the invaluable love he received from his nanny.
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A Radiance of Words: The Artistic Beauties of Literature
Literature bypasses the immediate senses of sight and hearing, and goes directly for the imagination.
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Johnny Cash, a Fighter Throughout His Life
In this installment of When Character Counted, we visit the life of the man in black, who battled addiction while writing songs that made him a legend.
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This Veterans Day, Remembering the Courage of Veterans and Noncombatants Alike
Behind every soldier are those who support off the battlefield and at home.
|
Family Heirlooms: Your Story Is Part of Your Legacy
From childhood mischief to hard-won wisdom, the tales of our elders are family heirlooms waiting to be told and preserved.
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The Making of a Miracle Worker: Anne Sullivan
This installment of When Character Counted casts a light on the making of the young teacher who opened the world to a blind and deaf student.
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Two Sides of a Shield: Authors Mary Johnston and Margaret Mitchell
Two Southern women, decades apart, brought the Civil War to life in haunting fiction.
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Inside Ireland’s First Classical Academy
When Padraig and Grace Cantillon-Murphy founded Mater Dei Academy, they didn’t know they were starting a revival.
|
Father to the Man: The Boyhood of Winston Churchill
The great British prime minister’s formative years were difficult but helped immensely by the invaluable love he received from his nanny.
|
A Radiance of Words: The Artistic Beauties of Literature
Literature bypasses the immediate senses of sight and hearing, and goes directly for the imagination.
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Johnny Cash, a Fighter Throughout His Life
In this installment of When Character Counted, we visit the life of the man in black, who battled addiction while writing songs that made him a legend.
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