Archive - Dan Hoyle's Go There To Know There

2003's Chicago Summer of Kindness, and the Friendships across Divides that Endure

I’ve told the story before, but it keeps growing, so it’s worth telling again.

Aug 1 •

May 2025

Little League Baseball Joy, Achievement Culture, and a volunteer-run league threading the needle in Oakland

I was eleven years old when I came to the plate in my Little League playoffs at foggy Parkside Field in San Francisco, with my team trailing by two runs…

May 24 •

For ten days, I was a form of Soft Power

The improbable State Department sponsored tour of Tings Dey Happen in Nigeria

May 8 •

March 2025

Coping Mechanisms

Farthest Away Sound, Journalistic Theater in a Rural County, and the power of Community, which Does

Mar 19 •

February 2025

What Would Robin Williams Do?

How does Humanism respond when getting crushed by fascho culture?

Feb 4 •

December 2024

Holidays as Ethnography

Bringing an ethnographer's mindset to the holidays...is great fun

Dec 24, 2024 •

November 2024

Knocking Doors in Maricopa County, AZ

A Snapshot of A Swing State Behind Four Doors

Nov 13, 2024 •

September 2024

How My New Show Came To Be

From Reconciliation to being in "The Trenches of Change"

Sep 11, 2024 •

July 2024

A Mid-Market Hotel Pool, Bridging Social Capital, and Summer Communal Spaces

It was 105 degrees as we drove into Redding, CA so I was calmly calling all the mid-market hotels in the area with rates under $150 to confirm their…

Jul 24, 2024 •

May 2024

Some Stories Don't Make the Stage, But They Are More Than Worthy

How to Still Honor A Story like Rubiela from Soacha, Colombia?

May 22, 2024 •

April 2024

Why I Do What I Do

Empathy and Listening will be (Understandably) Questioned This Year. A Piece from the Before Times that Suggests it's Part of the Fight.

Apr 16, 2024 •

February 2024

Las Vegas is the Future of America

Searching for Moderate Republicans, finding an Immigrant Middle Class built on America's Self-Numbing

Feb 29, 2024 •

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