Oxford English Dictionary

A Word About Dictionaries

A short dissertation on my infatuation with dictionaries.
Clay and LTA Airstream
In a few weeks, Clay will embark on an 11,000-mile trek following the Lewis and Clark trail across the continent and back. As he loads his pickup and prepares to hit the road, Clay ponders what he has learned so far in his multi-year project to Listen to America.
Clay at Point Lobos Ca.
An exciting new addition to Clay’s slate of LTA Cultural Tours for 2025! We’re headed to Steinbeck Country — California's Central Coast. On this tour we’ll visit Monterey, Pacific Grove, Carmel, and just across the Santa Lucia mountains, the author’s hometown of Salinas. These California landscapes stayed close to Steinbeck’s heart throughout his life and shaped the Nobel Prize-winning author’s indelible literary legacy.
Best selling author Louis L'Amour and his son Beau L'Amour.
Louis L’Amour is widely considered the best-selling author of Western fiction of all time. Still highly popular with readers around the globe, L’Amour has sold over 320 million books, with numerous film and TV adaptations of his work.
Clay Jenkinson, doing a historical presentation as Theodore Roosevelt in Santiago, Cuba. 2024
A not-so-rough rider, Clay gave a historical presentation as Teddy Roosevelt during a recent visit to Santiago, Cuba.
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Digital display on the Chunnel, a 31.5 mile undersea railway that connects England and France.
Amazing Engineering Grace: The Brave New World we take for granted. Clay reports from “The Chunnel” traveling between England and France.
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Shakespeare & Company, the famous English-language bookshop in the heart of Paris.
In Paris, France, this week Clay stops in at Shakespeare and Company, a legendary English-language bookshop in the heart of Paris.
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Why I’m Changing The Channel

Clay details how cable news has long failed to reliably serve Americans, why he is tuning out, and what he’ll do instead.
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Clay with a look at what's coming for the 2026 Winter Retreats at beautiful Lochsa Lodge.
Lochsa Lodge in Idaho's Bitterroot Mountains and site of Clay's annual hummanites retreats.
Clay reports from his annual humanities retreat near the Montana-Idaho border in the Northern Rockies.