May 15, 2015 Meeting of the WPA Chesterton Society
PLEASE NOTE: Our May meeting date has been moved from the second Friday in May, to the third Friday in May. This is because I have an immovable scheduling conflict for the second Friday this month. We will return to our regular second Friday schedule in June.
At the May 15th meeting we will complete our discussion of Chesterton's biography William Cobbett. I still have copies of the book...they cost $10 each. Please contact me if you'd like one.
The Club of Queer Trades in June and July...
We will begin a little light summer reading, The Club of Queer Trades, at our June meeting and finish it in July.
Below is a synopsis and a review taken from the ACS web store description of the edition of the book available from the ACS.
Six mysterious adventures of Basil and Rupert Grant, who encounter what seem to be strange, unexplainable crimes, all of which turn out to have even stranger explanations. The Club of Queer Trades is full of whimsical short stories by the brilliant and witty English author, G.K. Chesterton. Improbable plots, marvelously funny episodes, evocative descriptions of late Victorian London distinguish delightful tales focusing on a club devoted to completely original and unusual professions. First republication to include all 32 of Chesterton’s own original and hilarious illustrations.
"Although this is not exactly G.K.’s “deepest” work of fiction, it is immensely funny and entertaining.... I successfully used this book to bait a friend of mine into reading Chesterton leisurely for the first time – and he loved it! Great plot, great twists, and great plot twists (in each chapter, no less!) Don’t expect the cosmic relevance of The Man Who Was Thursday, or the obvious intellectual stimulus of The Ball and the Cross with this one. Expect fun and the unerring Chestertonian preference for truth over facts."
The book is 146 pages, paperback. (It is also available digitally for free on the internet.) With our ACS local group discount, a real copy will cost $6.00 (includes S&H). If you'd like a copy, please bring $6 to the meeting, or mail it to me. I will order the books by the end of May, so as to have them for the June meeting.
As a side note, group member Stephen Russell has informed me the Faith Builders Choir will be performing a concert on Saturday evening, May 23 at their facility near Meadville. This is an excellent choir. If you are interested in attending the program, email me and I will provide you with more information.
As usual, the meeting will be held in the Village of Middle Lancaster, at the Lancaster Township Community Center located on Kings Alley and Community Center Drive, in Butler County PA. Kings Ally is a right turn off of Rt. 19N, approx. 4.5 miles north of Zelienople, just past the Zion Lutheran Church. (The Community Center is a former one room school house, adjacent to the ball fields at Bauder Park.) The doors will open at 7:00pm for pot luck refreshments, with the discussion beginning at 7:30. The meeting will wrap up around 9:30pm.
Any questions, please feel free to email wpachesterton@gmail.com
