Story Session at the Falling Anvil: Bringing in the May
Mon, May 12, 5 - 8p:
The Falling Anvil Public House, Caledon Tamrannoch
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Tamrannoch/233/113/23/
The Lusty Month of May brings with it Maypole Dances, frolicks in the greenwood amongst the springtime flowers, and suchlike fertile and fecund shenanigans. Tammuz returns from the underworld to dance in the fields with Inanna, Persephone is freed from the grip of Hades and reunited with her mother, Demeter, and Jack-in-the-Green bids wood and meadow put forth leaf and blossom...and we all take Mom out for a nice Sunday Brunch. Come and share your stories of springtime rituals, and all that increases and multiplies.
Sponsored by the Caledon Library, the Clan of Seafarers and Storytellers, and the Storytelling Guild. Hosted by Mr. Aldo Stern
The Caledon Library wishes to express its unstinting approbation to the gentlebeings of the Encyclopedia Britannica for their WebShare program, which provided the Aetheric Linkages in this announcement
Mon, May 12, 5 - 8p:
The Falling Anvil Public House, Caledon Tamrannoch
http://slurl.com/secondlife
The Lusty Month of May brings with it Maypole Dances, frolicks in the greenwood amongst the springtime flowers, and suchlike fertile and fecund shenanigans. Tammuz returns from the underworld to dance in the fields with Inanna, Persephone is freed from the grip of Hades and reunited with her mother, Demeter, and Jack-in-the-Green bids wood and meadow put forth leaf and blossom...and we all take Mom out for a nice Sunday Brunch. Come and share your stories of springtime rituals, and all that increases and multiplies.
Sponsored by the Caledon Library, the Clan of Seafarers and Storytellers, and the Storytelling Guild. Hosted by Mr. Aldo Stern
The Caledon Library wishes to express its unstinting approbation to the gentlebeings of the Encyclopedia Britannica for their WebShare program, which provided the Aetheric Linkages in this announcement
NEW DISCUSSION SERIES
I'd like to announce a new series I'm hosting at Bookstacks - "Book to Film." On the last Monday of each month, I'll host a discussion about a terrific book which has also been made into a film. There will be more details to come as I work them out. The first book/film we are discussing is THE PRINCESS BRIDE on MAY 26 (in case you want to start reading). I hope to see you there. ~Dame Kghia
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WEDNESDAY, May 7, 5:00-7:00 pm
Fairy Tale Discussion Group....This week is Cinderella
Fiction and Lattees Coffee House
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Uruti%20Point/152/209/66
How many different renditions of one tale can be told? Want to read the original that hasn't been disneyfied! Have a copy of this tale sitting around you want to share? Come join the group....it should be fun...A new fairy tale every week! This discussion group is being held in Text Chat. Please be prepared to turn off your voice feature and type away!
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WEDNESDAY, May 7, 7:00 - 8:00 pm
Steelhead Library Poetry Writing Workshop
Steelhead Public Library, Steelhead
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Steelhead/123/185/24
Come enjoy the Pleasures of Composition at the SteelheadLlibrary. Dov Whiteberry (known in RL as Vermont poet and teacher David Weinstock) will lead a poetry writing workshop. No previous experience is required. If time permits, we will share the results with each other.
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THURSDAY, May 8, 6:00-8:00 pm SL time
Discussion Group at Fiction and Lattes....British Romantic Poets
Fiction and Lattees Coffee House
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Uruti%20Point/152/209/66
Discussion this week is dipping into the past, and talking about the British Romantic poets. We will be talking about Keats, Shelly, and maybe even Coleridge.
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FRIDAY, May 9, 2:00 p.m
SLT Trivia Quest
Guild of UK Writers
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Scotland%20Plarmigan/172/140/22
As the name implies, it is all about trivia - a night of trivia to be exact (or as we Brits like to call it a PUB QUIZ). Pit your brains against the man in the machine - whoever he might be. Highest score at the end of the night wins L$300.
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SATURDAY, May 10, 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Musical Guest: Blue4u Nowicka
Bookstacks' Pub
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Tholtfinger/47/131/49
Blue4u Nowicka, Debbie Henning in RL, is a singer, songwriter and an accomplished guitarist. She couples her unique harmonies with 12 and six string acoustic guitars. She has been influenced most by the rock, folk, and blues styles of music. Blue4u always puts on an excellent show.
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SUNDAY, May 11, 11:00 a.m - 12:30 p.m
Moocher's Meet Sunday Social
Shiva's Home
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Daera%20Din%20Panah/128/128/2
In the winter we ice skate, and in warm weather, we go fishing! Shiva has invited it to see her new home and fish - or not. :) Sunday Socials are slightly bookish, but they tend to be more social and cover a wide range of interests.
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SUNDAY, May 11, 2:00 p.m.
Second Annual Compliments Duel, to benefit Relay for Life
Caledon Loch Avie
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Loch%20Avie/192/150/23
JJ Drinkwater and Exrex Somme request the pleasure of your attendance (and your kind donation of Lindens to RFL) at their Compliments Duel II - The Return of the Backhanded Compliment
The purpose of the duel, as it was last year, is to raise funds for the Relay for Life. Five Judgeships will be auctioned to the highest bidder - the first judgeship sold shall be the senior judge. The panel of Judges will determine the ultimate winner of the duel, based on such criteria as they determine.
Each of the duelists will pay their opponent five compliments, with the first passage du politesse determined by a coin flip made by the senior judge on the day. There is no restriction on the length, type, nature etc. of the compliments (although JJ is NOT allowed to bring a library with him to the duel).
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MONDAY, May 12, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Story Session at the Falling Anvil: Bringing in the May
The Falling Anvil Public House, Caledon Tamrannoch
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Tamrannoch/233/113/23/
The Lusty Month of May brings with it Maypole Dances, frolicks in the greenwood amongst the springtime flowers, and suchlike fertile and fecund shenanigans. Tammuz returns from the underworld to dance in the fields with Inanna, Persephone is freed from Hades and reunited with her mother, Demeter, and Jack-in-the-Green bids wood and meadow put forth leaf and blossom...and we all take Mom out for a nice Sunday Brunch. Come and share your stories of springtime rituals, and all that increases and multiplies.
I'd like to announce a new series I'm hosting at Bookstacks - "Book to Film." On the last Monday of each month, I'll host a discussion about a terrific book which has also been made into a film. There will be more details to come as I work them out. The first book/film we are discussing is THE PRINCESS BRIDE on MAY 26 (in case you want to start reading). I hope to see you there. ~Dame Kghia
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WEDNESDAY, May 7, 5:00-7:00 pm
Fairy Tale Discussion Group....This week is Cinderella
Fiction and Lattees Coffee House
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Uruti%20Point/152/209/66
How many different renditions of one tale can be told? Want to read the original that hasn't been disneyfied! Have a copy of this tale sitting around you want to share? Come join the group....it should be fun...A new fairy tale every week! This discussion group is being held in Text Chat. Please be prepared to turn off your voice feature and type away!
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WEDNESDAY, May 7, 7:00 - 8:00 pm
Steelhead Library Poetry Writing Workshop
Steelhead Public Library, Steelhead
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Steelhead/123/185/24
Come enjoy the Pleasures of Composition at the SteelheadLlibrary. Dov Whiteberry (known in RL as Vermont poet and teacher David Weinstock) will lead a poetry writing workshop. No previous experience is required. If time permits, we will share the results with each other.
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THURSDAY, May 8, 6:00-8:00 pm SL time
Discussion Group at Fiction and Lattes....British Romantic Poets
Fiction and Lattees Coffee House
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Uruti%20Point/152/209/66
Discussion this week is dipping into the past, and talking about the British Romantic poets. We will be talking about Keats, Shelly, and maybe even Coleridge.
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FRIDAY, May 9, 2:00 p.m
SLT Trivia Quest
Guild of UK Writers
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Scotland%20Plarmigan/172/140/22
As the name implies, it is all about trivia - a night of trivia to be exact (or as we Brits like to call it a PUB QUIZ). Pit your brains against the man in the machine - whoever he might be. Highest score at the end of the night wins L$300.
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SATURDAY, May 10, 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Musical Guest: Blue4u Nowicka
Bookstacks' Pub
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Tholtfinger/47/131/49
Blue4u Nowicka, Debbie Henning in RL, is a singer, songwriter and an accomplished guitarist. She couples her unique harmonies with 12 and six string acoustic guitars. She has been influenced most by the rock, folk, and blues styles of music. Blue4u always puts on an excellent show.
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SUNDAY, May 11, 11:00 a.m - 12:30 p.m
Moocher's Meet Sunday Social
Shiva's Home
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Daera%20Din%20Panah/128/128/2
In the winter we ice skate, and in warm weather, we go fishing! Shiva has invited it to see her new home and fish - or not. :) Sunday Socials are slightly bookish, but they tend to be more social and cover a wide range of interests.
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SUNDAY, May 11, 2:00 p.m.
Second Annual Compliments Duel, to benefit Relay for Life
Caledon Loch Avie
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Loch%20Avie/192/150/23
JJ Drinkwater and Exrex Somme request the pleasure of your attendance (and your kind donation of Lindens to RFL) at their Compliments Duel II - The Return of the Backhanded Compliment
The purpose of the duel, as it was last year, is to raise funds for the Relay for Life. Five Judgeships will be auctioned to the highest bidder - the first judgeship sold shall be the senior judge. The panel of Judges will determine the ultimate winner of the duel, based on such criteria as they determine.
Each of the duelists will pay their opponent five compliments, with the first passage du politesse determined by a coin flip made by the senior judge on the day. There is no restriction on the length, type, nature etc. of the compliments (although JJ is NOT allowed to bring a library with him to the duel).
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MONDAY, May 12, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Story Session at the Falling Anvil: Bringing in the May
The Falling Anvil Public House, Caledon Tamrannoch
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Tamrannoch/233/113/23/
The Lusty Month of May brings with it Maypole Dances, frolicks in the greenwood amongst the springtime flowers, and suchlike fertile and fecund shenanigans. Tammuz returns from the underworld to dance in the fields with Inanna, Persephone is freed from Hades and reunited with her mother, Demeter, and Jack-in-the-Green bids wood and meadow put forth leaf and blossom...and we all take Mom out for a nice Sunday Brunch. Come and share your stories of springtime rituals, and all that increases and multiplies.
Story Hour at the Caledon Library, with Lehua Lamington
Hawaii's Epic Legends: Pele and Hi'iaka, Goddesses of Volcanoes and Healing
Sunday May 4th
12pm-1pm SLT
The Great Lawn of the Whitehorn Library, Caledon VIctoriaCity
http://slurl.com/secondlife
Lehua Lamington is a storyteller with deep roots in the culture of the Hawaiian Islands, and an equally deep love of the art of Telling. She will regale us with tales of Pele (the volatile and magnificent goddess of fire, lightning, dance, volcanoes and violence) and Hi'iaka, the goddess of healing, Pele's beloved sister and, at times, rival.
NOTE: The teleport takes you to a hub in Caledon VictoriaCity... Just follow the red arrow/beacon north through the Reading Room to the Great Lawn, or use the red and gold Library Transport Device located at the telehub.
Lehua will tell her stories using SL Voice. Here is a quick remineder on how to enable Voice in SL (with thanks to librarian Corwin Howlett)
Gentlebeings, Your ServantSetting yourself up to hear voice chat is easy. First go to Edit menu, then choose Preferences, then the Voice Chat tab. Make sure the check mark is in the box marked Enable Voice Chat. (Sometimes it helps to "uncheck" it and "recheck" it.) Also choose "Hear Voice chat from camera position" although it usually works both ways. Click OK.
Now at the bottom right you will see a button that says Talk. Don't press this unless you really want everyone around to hear you. To the left of Talk is a button with chat bubbles and green lines. CLick on that.
A box labeled Active Speakers should show up. Everyone near you with voice enabled will display, and anyone actually speaking will be at the top. When they talk you should see a little green symbol by their name. From this screen, you can control the volume of individual speakers. If you are having trouble hearing a presenter, click on their name, then turn their volume up at the bottom. This will usually solve the problem.
If you are hearing a speaker you don't want to hear, then highlight their name on this list and turn them down or even click on the little speaker icon to mute them.
JJD
When the Caledon Library Benefactors group was started, YHN proposed that the following methods should be used to report donations and what became of them.
* The accounts kept by Provost Weatherwax will be posted, quarterly, on this website.
* By default, we will include donor names, as they appear on the accounting spreadsheets generated from the Second Life Bureau of Aetheric Accountancy (i.e. the "Transactions History" found in the general vicinity of secondlife.com/account/transactions )
* Those who wish to donate anonymously are welcome to request of Provost Weatherwax that their name be removed from the Public Record of our Accounts.
o HOWEVER, those who wish to donate anonymously are encouraged to contact myself, JJ Drinkwater, to arrange the private transfer of funds.
* We discourage the donation of first-born children, unless they already know how to read
Herewith we indicate the Electronickal Ledger of Provost Weatherwax, shewing what monies have been received, and what disbursed, between the first of January and the last of March, in 2008
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pllkKvV1i6x33v06RKU-cew
To each and every donor, whether of Five lindens or Five and Twenty Thousand, we of the library express our most profound and heartfelt thanks. As your taste, discernment, enthusiasm, creativity, and literacy are our inspiration; so are your generosity, beneficence, liberality, and open-handed support our prop and mainstay.
Gentlebeings, your servant
JJ Drinkwater
* The accounts kept by Provost Weatherwax will be posted, quarterly, on this website.
* By default, we will include donor names, as they appear on the accounting spreadsheets generated from the Second Life Bureau of Aetheric Accountancy (i.e. the "Transactions History" found in the general vicinity of secondlife.com/account/transactions )
* Those who wish to donate anonymously are welcome to request of Provost Weatherwax that their name be removed from the Public Record of our Accounts.
o HOWEVER, those who wish to donate anonymously are encouraged to contact myself, JJ Drinkwater, to arrange the private transfer of funds.
* We discourage the donation of first-born children, unless they already know how to read
Herewith we indicate the Electronickal Ledger of Provost Weatherwax, shewing what monies have been received, and what disbursed, between the first of January and the last of March, in 2008
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pllkKvV1i6x33v06RKU-cew
To each and every donor, whether of Five lindens or Five and Twenty Thousand, we of the library express our most profound and heartfelt thanks. As your taste, discernment, enthusiasm, creativity, and literacy are our inspiration; so are your generosity, beneficence, liberality, and open-handed support our prop and mainstay.
Gentlebeings, your servant
JJ Drinkwater
Dear Readers,
There are several book discussions scheduled at the end of this week. I hope you will take the opportunity to join the discussions.
Details and slurls are below. To receive this listing in-world, please subscribe to the Bookstacks group.
Book Event April 28-May 4
This week's bookish events are listed below. Please feel free to distribute this notecard to others. If you have future events you would like to include, please contact Simeon Beresford, Kghia Gherardi or Salamander Clary.
Thursday, May 1, 6:00-8:00 pm
Discussion Group at Fiction and Lattes...Science Fiction Literature
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Uruti%20Point/152/209/66
From Star Trek to Phil K. Dick and from Star Wars to William Gibson we will cover the gamut of the genre. All in a span of two tidy hours. So, wear your favorite SF avatar and come and discuss your favorite works of science fiction.
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Thursday, May 1, 7pm
Steelhead Public Library Book Discussion: Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Steelhead/123/185/24
Haunt your favorite library or booksellers and please join us on Thursday, May 1, at 7 pm to discuss Stephen Ambrose's Undaunted Courage - a story of how Lewis and Clark came to the Pacific Northwest and set the stage for our settlement of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. In this regard we are looking to a future writer to better
understand our past. Come along with us!
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Saturday, May 4, Noon @ Bookstacks
Bookstacks Book Trivia - Mysteries
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Tholtfinger/47/131/49
Simeon Beresford will be asking book-related trivia questions about the mystery genre. Costumes are encouraged. Winner takes home $250 lindens.
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Book Discussion: Guilty Pleasures @ Bookstacks
Sunday, May 4, 11:00 a.m.@ Bookstacks
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Tholtfinger/47/131/49
High brow literature has its place, but we all have a guilty pleasure. Something that might surprise other to know we read. Share your guilty pleasures - you might find a kindred reader.
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Guild of UK Writers Book Discussion Circle : A Thousand Splendid Suns
Sunday, May 4, 3:00 p.m.@ Milkwood
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Scotland%20Plarmigan/172/140/22
Join us on Sunday 4th May at 3:00 PM SLT at the beach campfire on MILK WOOD, to discuss this wonderful book.
There are several book discussions scheduled at the end of this week. I hope you will take the opportunity to join the discussions.
- Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
- Science Fiction
- Guilty Reading Pleasures
Details and slurls are below. To receive this listing in-world, please subscribe to the Bookstacks group.
Book Event April 28-May 4
This week's bookish events are listed below. Please feel free to distribute this notecard to others. If you have future events you would like to include, please contact Simeon Beresford, Kghia Gherardi or Salamander Clary.
Thursday, May 1, 6:00-8:00 pm
Discussion Group at Fiction and Lattes...Science Fiction Literature
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Uruti%20Point/152/209/66
From Star Trek to Phil K. Dick and from Star Wars to William Gibson we will cover the gamut of the genre. All in a span of two tidy hours. So, wear your favorite SF avatar and come and discuss your favorite works of science fiction.
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Thursday, May 1, 7pm
Steelhead Public Library Book Discussion: Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Steelhead/123/185/24
Haunt your favorite library or booksellers and please join us on Thursday, May 1, at 7 pm to discuss Stephen Ambrose's Undaunted Courage - a story of how Lewis and Clark came to the Pacific Northwest and set the stage for our settlement of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. In this regard we are looking to a future writer to better
understand our past. Come along with us!
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Saturday, May 4, Noon @ Bookstacks
Bookstacks Book Trivia - Mysteries
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Tholtfinger/47/131/49
Simeon Beresford will be asking book-related trivia questions about the mystery genre. Costumes are encouraged. Winner takes home $250 lindens.
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Book Discussion: Guilty Pleasures @ Bookstacks
Sunday, May 4, 11:00 a.m.@ Bookstacks
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Tholtfinger/47/131/49
High brow literature has its place, but we all have a guilty pleasure. Something that might surprise other to know we read. Share your guilty pleasures - you might find a kindred reader.
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Guild of UK Writers Book Discussion Circle : A Thousand Splendid Suns
Sunday, May 4, 3:00 p.m.@ Milkwood
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Scotland%20Plarmigan/172/140/22
Join us on Sunday 4th May at 3:00 PM SLT at the beach campfire on MILK WOOD, to discuss this wonderful book.
