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Introducing the Caledon Library's Gardening Collection!
Sunday, May 18, 1 - 3 p.m. SLT
Robbiani Gardens, Caledon Morgaine
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Morgaine/207/107/22
Miss Kaye Robbiani and Mr. JJ Drinkwater invite you to a Garden Party, to view the newly created Gertrude Jekyll Gardening Collection for the Caledon Library.
Come explore the controversies and conventions of 19th century gardens and gardening, and enjoy the Gardens, both formal and natural, of the Robbiani-Lyle Estate in Caledon Morgaine.
At 2 p.m. Miss Robbiani will give a short garden tour and presentation on Fashions in 19th Century English Gardening, with some remarks on "The Great Garden Debate", the tensions between Landscape Designers, advocating a style in harmony with nature, and Architects, who, seeing the garden as an extension of the house, argued for a more formal, traditional design, with both sides claiming to represent the true English Garden.
We will also offer refreshments, good music and dancing, and good company!
Dress: Semi-formal, with Big Hats
gentlebeings, your servant
JJD
Sunday, May 18, 1 - 3 p.m. SLT
Robbiani Gardens, Caledon Morgaine
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Morgaine/207/107/22
Miss Kaye Robbiani and Mr. JJ Drinkwater invite you to a Garden Party, to view the newly created Gertrude Jekyll Gardening Collection for the Caledon Library.
Come explore the controversies and conventions of 19th century gardens and gardening, and enjoy the Gardens, both formal and natural, of the Robbiani-Lyle Estate in Caledon Morgaine.
At 2 p.m. Miss Robbiani will give a short garden tour and presentation on Fashions in 19th Century English Gardening, with some remarks on "The Great Garden Debate", the tensions between Landscape Designers, advocating a style in harmony with nature, and Architects, who, seeing the garden as an extension of the house, argued for a more formal, traditional design, with both sides claiming to represent the true English Garden.
We will also offer refreshments, good music and dancing, and good company!
Dress: Semi-formal, with Big Hats
gentlebeings, your servant
JJD
One of the main tributary streams that flows into the broad, sweeping
river of Caledon Culture, is the literary genre, visual aesthetic, and
technogeekistologickal sensibility of Steampunk. The Caledon library
has, these last some several months, been diligently researching and
preparing the materials for a collection dedicated to this beloved and
absorbing subject.
Curators Alice Burgess and Turing Weyland have sought out works and references, both authoritative and extraordinary, to inform, enlighten, and delight the serious seeker after knowledge and the debonair dilettante alike. One fruit of their labours, a list of reference links on this topic, is to be seen in the Caledon Library Reading Room, in VictoriaCity, under the Direction of Reference Curator Miss Teofila Matova. Further indications of this immense undertaking may be seen, here, on Mr Weyland's Page-Flake, Chock full o' Steam. Visitors to Caledon may look to see the collection installed on the 4th floor of the Whitehorn Library, in Caledon VictoriaCity, early in the coming year.
In the meantime, we are proud to present the Aetheric Musings upon all things Boiler-Powered, Intricately-Cogged, Brass-Plated, Diverse, and Appealingly Over-Engineered , of Curator Turing Weyland: The Steampunk Lexicon
Gentlebeings, your servant
JJ Drinkwater
Curators Alice Burgess and Turing Weyland have sought out works and references, both authoritative and extraordinary, to inform, enlighten, and delight the serious seeker after knowledge and the debonair dilettante alike. One fruit of their labours, a list of reference links on this topic, is to be seen in the Caledon Library Reading Room, in VictoriaCity, under the Direction of Reference Curator Miss Teofila Matova. Further indications of this immense undertaking may be seen, here, on Mr Weyland's Page-Flake, Chock full o' Steam. Visitors to Caledon may look to see the collection installed on the 4th floor of the Whitehorn Library, in Caledon VictoriaCity, early in the coming year.
In the meantime, we are proud to present the Aetheric Musings upon all things Boiler-Powered, Intricately-Cogged, Brass-Plated, Diverse, and Appealingly Over-Engineered , of Curator Turing Weyland: The Steampunk Lexicon
Gentlebeings, your servant
JJ Drinkwater