"I still hold that it is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home...
as symbolic and significant to his own imagination as he can;
whether the home be in Notting Hill or Nicaragua, in Palestine or in Pittsburgh."-G.K.Chesterton, "The Artistic Side"

Monday, January 21, 2013


February 14, 2013 Meeting of the WPA Chesterton Society



Greetings WPA Chestertonians!

At our February meeting of 2013 we will continue discussing the book 
In Defense of Sanity , edited by Dale Ahlquist, published by Ignatius Press. 

The book is available online from the American Chesterton Society (http://www.chesterton.org/store/#!/~/product/id=7298739
and also at Amazon 
(http://www.amazon.com/Defense-Sanity-Best-Essays-Chesterton/dp/1586174894). 
It is also possible (I would call first) to find it at your "local" Barnes & Noble, or at the Gospa bookstore in Evans City. 

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. We will wrap up around 9:30pm. 

For the February meeting please read the following essays, selected with a Valentine's Day theme in mind. (The # refers to the Table of Contents in the Ignatius Press edition of the book  In Defense of Sanity

               #5 Woman 
               #12 The Romantic in the Rain      
               #43 Marriage and the Modern Mind 
#47 On Man: The Heir of all Ages  
#49 The Romance of Childhood   
#50 The Surrender Upon Sex  
#52 Babies and Distributism    

Please feel free to email me at wpachesterton@gmail.com if you have any questions about the readings or anything else.

Hope to see you on Thursday the 14th!

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