June 2017 Meeting of the WPA Chesterton Society

Summer Greetings WPA Friends of G.K. Chesterton!

Our next meeting will be on Friday, June 9th. We will read and discuss the essay "Why I Am a Catholic" by G.K. Chesterton. Although Chesterton apparently wrote several essays with this title, the essay we will be looking at is from Twelve Modern Apostles and Their Creeds (1926) , and reprinted in The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton, Vol. 3 Ignatius Press, 1990.  You can find it at this link on the American Chesterton Society webpage. 

While I ask that you print yourself a copy of the essay, or bring an internet accessible device to the meeting, you need NOT read it before the meeting.  The purpose of this dispensation from the usual pre-reading request, is to free up your Chesterton reading time for Chesterton's great novel, The Man Who Was Thursday (TMWWT).  We will be discussing TMWWT at our July meeting on Friday, July 14th. Because of the nature of the book you should definitely try to read it before hand, and come prepared to discuss the entire thing. The pre-reading is important since our discussion will most definitely "spoil" the plot for any who haven't read it before.

The 36th annual Chesterton Society Conference hosted by the American Chesterton Society will be on July 27-29 in Colorado Springs. The theme will be "The Tyranny of the Learned". If you would like to travel to the great Rocky Mountain State to spend a few days with some great Chestertonians and listen to some provocative talks, check out the complete conference registration information at www.chesterton.org . (Who knows... maybe you'll get to drink from the Cup of Inconvenience Adventure!)

As usual our 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 , with the discussion beginning at 7:30. The meeting will wrap up around 9:30pm.


Any questions or comments, please feel free to email me at wpachesterton@gmail.com

May 12,2017 Meeting of the WPA Chesterton Society

May 12, 2017 meeting of the WPA Chesterton Society

Greetings Fellow WPA Chestertonians,

We will gather this Friday, May 12 for the completion of What I Saw in America. We will pick up the discussion with the chapter titled "Wells and the World State", and continue the discussion through the end of the book. The chapters are relatively short, and I encourage you to read over them as much as possible before the meeting. 

The book is available free on @%&zon for Kindle here. It also can be read online here.There is also a  free Librivox recording of the book available here, and various print or digital formats can be found here for as low as 99 cents.

Also, we will resume our regular sharing table of pot-luck refreshments. I'm sure that all contributions will be heartily appreciated!

As usual: Our 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 enjoyment of informal conversation and refreshments, with the book discussion beginning at 7:30. The meeting will wrap up sometime after 9:30pm.


Any questions or comments, please feel free to email me at wpachesterton@gmail.com