Northern Lights, Southern Nights

“You can’t go back home to your family, back home to your childhood . . . back home to a young man’s dreams of glory and of fame . . . back home to places in the country, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time—back home to the escapes of Time and Memory.” -Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again

Albert Eisele Albert Eisele is editor-at-large of The Hill, a nonpartisan newspaper covering Congress that he helped start in 1994. He has been involved in journalism, government, academia, and business for five decades.