Blessed Harlaxton, My Home: Harlaxton Essays

Blessed Harlaxton, My Home is a nostalgic, whimsical, sometimes quirky, often humorous journey through life and learning in a magical place–Harlaxton College in England. In 53 short sketches, the author takes us on an entertaining and clear-eyed trek through Harlaxton Manor herself, the legendary British Studies Programme and Harlaxton’s serious academic demands, Travel in Britain and Europe–and getting back home, Sport, The Naked Mile, Bistro Doings, Bob the Swan, Ziggy and Doug, Grantham and Isaac Newton and Maggie Thatcher, Billy James and His Magical Bagpipes, and much much more. Taken together, these essays bring the Harlaxton Experience to life, making it clear why for more than fifty years, students and faculty in Britain and America, from Harlaxton to Stanford to Evansville, from Eau Claire to Western Kentucky to Eastern Illinois, from Baker to Jewell, from Texas Woman’s to Texas Lutheran, from USI to Wabash to Marian, and in dozens of other schools, have said again and again words that have become for them almost a sacred mantra in coming of age: Harlaxton changed my life!