Retreat to Russell Kirk’s Piety Hill

Earlier this fall, as part of the Fund for American Studies’ Public Policy Fellowship, I visited Piety Hill, the ancestral home of preeminent 20th-century conservative intellectual and original National Review columnist Russell Kirk, in Mecosta, Mich.

Kirk’s life was consumed with the recuperation and preservation of what he called “permanent things.” As he put it:

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Earlier this fall, as part of the Fund for American Studies’ Public Policy Fellowship, I visited Piety Hill, the ancestral home of preeminent 20th-century conservative intellectual and original National Review columnist Russell Kirk, in Mecosta, Mich.

Kirk’s life was consumed with the recuperation and preservation of what he called “permanent things.” As he put it: