Jon Meacham on Sewanee

Since our family is now proudly represented on “The Mountain” by Knight, I’m happy to pass along this essay by Jon Meacham, editor of Newsweek and the current Pulitzer Prize winner for non-fiction.

“I love Sewanee, an Episcopal university tucked away on 13,000 rural acres of the Cumberland Plateau. It is a place where students and faculty wear academic gowns to class, where the vice chancellor also serves as mayor, and where I spent four years without having a key to my room, much less locking it. Modernity intrudes with a single full-time traffic light on campus, but for years that incursion was ameliorated by the sight of a professor of religion’s cat taking a daily nap on the street directly beneath the light. People knew to steer clear.”