We have two unique sessions today, so step right up!
~ 1:30pm THE THIN MAN Concludes
At Seanchai Library's Fireside Room at Bradley University
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New York,
1932. Nick Charles, a retired west coast private detective, and his wealthy
socialite wife, are in the Big Apple for Christmas. They enjoy witty repartee and
banter with one another, and Nora is every inch Nick’s match in wit and
intelligence.
Things change when Nick is visited by Dorothy Wynant, the
daughter of a former client, businessman Clyde Wynant, who has apparently
vanished ahead of his daughter’s wedding. Nick reluctantly – and to Nora’s
amusement – agrees to find the missing businessman (the titular Thin Man). But
what starts as a search for a missing man quickly turns into the hunt for a
murderer after Wynant’s secretary is found dead, with all the evidence points
to Wynant himself as her killer.
Corwyn Allen, John Morland, Kayden Oconnell, and Caledonia
Skytower conclude Dashell Hammett’s 1933 classic, which became the first in a
series of films following Nick and Nora’s adventures, as played by the
inimitable William Powell and Myrna Loy.
~ 3:00pm "THE CURIO" at KULTIVATE MAGAZINE'S ANNIVERSARY
On site at "The Curio" Sculpture, at the Celebration on Water Haven
Caledonia Skytower joins Eleseren Brianna with A dyptic of tales based on Ms. Brianna's 2016 virtual sculpture, "The Curio".
When Eleseren created the statue last fall, she also write a story about "The Curio" in which some 19th Century vacationers come upon its compelling presence deep in the Scandinavian wilderness. Her story was very much one of observation and supposition, done in the format of a 19th C diary. She asked Caledonia to consider creating a story from the sculpture's point of view. And that resulted in the short story "Eternity's Test". The two stories have only been read together once, and never in the presence of the towering sculpture itself ... until now!
"You will think me transported with
Enthusiasm but I am not. -- I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure,
that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these
States. -- Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and
Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that
Posterity will triumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it,
which I trust in God We shall not." ~ John Adams
ALSO, be sure and check out the Eight Days of Dickens Mini-Hunt, is at the main Dickens Project site on Water haven, and at the Dickens Project Resource Center.
@ 3 pm - STORIES AT THE PARK 
Our series continues at Tea Time's summer digs at the University of Washington iSchool in SL. THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES continues, with Kayden, John, and Caledonia. 
