Sewanee has always been a magical place for me. I started college there as a freshman fall semester of 1983. While I did not graduate from there, it did become a special place to me. It was the first time I had lived away from home. Still, when walking the campus there, I can see and hear the ghosts of my friends and I as we did the many rites of passage that time in life brings to youth looking for adulthood.