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The Seven Keepings of the Hearth
Dame Keturah Auremont, scholar of scripture, hospitality, and exceptionally well-kept cheese, explains the seven obligations that sustain the First Hearth—with only a few necessary digressions.
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Festivus: The Rituals of Misrule
From Carnival’s topsy-turvy traditions to the five magnificent trials of facial topiary, Parker Tender makes an exuberantly improper case for laughter, belonging, and the Fourth Keeping of the Hearth.
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A Chronicle of the Assemblies
The Assemblies are responses, not eternal categories. A brief history of how crisis, community, exchange, and service shaped the traditions now known as Emberwing, Moonmere, Thornvale, and Starforge.
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The First Hearth
Artwork: Joseph Rubens Powell, Winter. National Gallery of Art. Public Domain. In the winter of 1894, one struggling family discovered that a fire could be kept alive by more than coal. What began as seven nights of shared warmth became the first HearthWarming—and a tradition built on laughter, generosity, magic, and the neighbors who…
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Innovative Impacts
ABOUT INNOVATIVE IMPACTS Innovative Impacts is a Kansas-based youth mentoring and educational nonprofit dedicated to igniting curiosity and empowering the next generation of leaders. Rooted in the Six Skills for Success — Observation, Measurement, Classification, Inference, Hypothesizing, and Communication — we help young people use discovery, creativity, and real-world problem- solving to build confident,…