The Village of Stories by Richard Kopley, Edgar Allan Poe scholar at Penn State Many years ago, on a bus in New York City, a little old lady in a babushka stared at me. I looked away, and then back, and she was still staring. I rose to get off, and she stared as I […]
Philip Young
State College, PA – Celebrate Hemingway and the Scholarship that Makes Penn State More Than a Party School
Greatness comes in often curious packages. The greatness I have in mind, as I sit here in my apartment in State College, is Ernest Hemingway, a genius whose link to this area – through a combination of circumstances – is strong. “Hemingway made a difference,” wrote the late Philip Young, of Penn State’s English department. […]