Wind in the Willows Listening Party - September 12th

Wind in the Willows Listening Party
Chapter 9: Wayfarers All
Saturday, September 12th 10am-11am SLT
On the Riverbank, A Willowy Place, Caledon Tanglewood
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Come as a character from Kenneth Grahame's novel,  The Wind in the Willows, and join us as we listen to, and discuss, a new chapter each month of the adventures of the shy but loyal Mole, the poetical Water Rat, the brave Otter, the gruff but kindly Mr. Badger, the vainglorious Toad, and all the other creatures of wood, stream, and field who populate this much-loved story

This month, The Water Rat meets a traveler by the wayside, a seafarer with tales to tell of far of climes.

'My last voyage,' began the Sea Rat, 'that landed me eventually in this country, bound with high hopes for my inland farm, will serve as a good example of any of them, and, indeed, as an epitome of my highly-coloured life. Family troubles, as usual, began it. The domestic storm-cone was hoisted, and I shipped myself on board a small trading vessel bound from Constantinople, by classic seas whose every wave throbs with a deathless memory, to the Grecian Islands and the Levant. Those were golden days and balmy nights! In and out of harbour all the time—old friends everywhere—sleeping in some cool temple or ruined cistern during the heat of the day—feasting and song after sundown, under great stars set in a velvet sky! Thence we turned and coasted up the Adriatic, its shores swimming in an atmosphere of amber, rose, and aquamarine; we lay in wide land-locked harbours, we roamed through ancient and noble cities, until at last one morning, as the sun rose royally behind us, we rode into Venice down a path of gold. O, Venice is a fine city, wherein a rat can wander at his ease and take his pleasure! Or, when weary of wandering, can sit at the edge of the Grand Canal at night, feasting with his friends, when the air is full of music and the sky full of stars, and the lights flash and shimmer on the polished steel prows of the swaying gondolas, packed so that you could walk across the canal on them from side to side! And then the food—do you like shellfish? Well, well, we won't linger over that now.'

Ratty finds himself hearing the call of Distant Ports and is sorely tempted....but thanks to the Trusty and Sensible Mole, all works out well in the end.

The Rat pushed the paper away from him wearily, but the discreet Mole took occasion to leave the room, and when he peeped in again some time later, the Rat was absorbed and deaf to the world; alternately scribbling and sucking the top of his pencil. It is true that he sucked a good deal more than he scribbled; but it was joy to the Mole to know that the cure had at least begun.

Big People may join us in Tinyville, or repose in comfort at the Oxbridge Library in Caledon Oxbridge
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Those who can't be with us in-world are invited to tune in at http://music.radioriel.org

This is a year-long series, the second Saturday of each month, 2009. Sponsored by the Caledon Library and Rachelville, and produced by Radio Riel

Schedule

    * Jan 10:   The River Bank
    * Feb 14:   The Open Road
    * March 14:  The Wild Wood
    * April 11:  Mr. Badger
    * May 9:  Dulce Domum
    * June 13:   Mr. Toad
    * July 11:  The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
    * Aug 8:  Toad's Adventures
    * Sept 12:  Wayfarers All
    * Oct 10:  The Further Adventures of Toad
    * Nov 14:  Like Summer Tempests came his Tears
    * Dec 12:  The Return of Ulysses
    * Jan  9,  2010:   All Day Programming of the entire book

gentlebeings, your servant

JJ Drinkwater