News & Events: May 2008 Archives
Caledon Library Book Discussion
The Three Mulla-Mulgars by Walter de la Mare
Led by Miss Serafina Puchkina of Caledon
Sat, May 31, 2 - 4pm sltThe Three Mulla-Mulgars by Walter de la Mare
Led by Miss Serafina Puchkina of Caledon
Saturday, May 31st, 2 - 4pm slt
Jack & Elaine Whitehorn memorial Library, Caledon VictoriaCity
http://slurl.com/secondlife
Well known and regarded in its own day, de la Mare's fantastic tale of journey through a delicately exotic landscape has fallen into some obscurity. This is a shame, as there is an intrinsic pleasure of the author's dreamlike prose, written with a poet's sensibility, as well as in Dorothy Lathrop's vivid and sensuous illustrations.
The work is also of interest as one of the principal influences on J.R.R. Tolkien's "Middle Earth" books. We will be discussing the work as a Hero's Journey of the type explored by Joseph Campbell et al.
All lovers of Quests, fans of tales involving the Innocent and Magical Third Son, Persons Partial to the Poetical, and readers of Fantastic and Fanciful Fiction are invited to join us, whether they have read the work or not.
Copies of the work may be had at the Whitehorn Library in Caledon VictoriaCity,
or found online at
http://www.archive.org/stream
NOTE: The teleport takes you to a hub in Caledon VictoriaCity... Just follow the red arrow/beacon north through the Reading Room to the Whitehorn building, or use the red and gold book-shaped Library Transport Device located at the telehub.
Please direct questions to JJ Drinkwater, Caledon Library, or Miss Serafina Puchkina.
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