SUNDAY, May 29th: TERRIFIC TALES

@ 1:30pm Tea Time at Baker Street concludes:
The last event by Seanchai Library at Crazy Eights on LEA 9 will conclude Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's collection "The Return of Sherlock Holmes"

THIS WEEK: The Adventure of the Second Stain

Lord Bellinger, the Prime Minister, and the Right Honourable Trelawney Hope, the Secretary of State for European Affairs, come to Holmes in the matter of a document stolen from Hope's dispatch box, which he kept at home in Whitehall Terrace when not at work. If divulged, this document could bring about very dire consequences for all Europe, even war. They are loath to tell Holmes at first the exact nature of the document's contents, but when Holmes declines to take on their case, they tell him that it was a rather injudicious letter from a foreign potentate.

Presented live, in voice
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@ 6pm Magicland Storytime: More from the Art and Magic of William Joyce

Caledonia shares "A Day with Wilbur Robinson" and continues "Ollie's Odyssey" :
In the secret realm of toys, there are many mysteries.There is the Code of the Toys, which is as ancient as childhood. There’s also the magic of becoming a child’s favorite, the highest honor in the Toy World. Made by hand by Billy’s mother, Ollie is a special toy, “a toy who will matter.” He becomes Billy’s best friend, confidant, pal, and yes, Billy’s “favorite.”

But there are villains in the Toy World, and Zozo, the clown king, is the most feared. He and his toy henchman (the Creeps) have sworn to steal and imprison favorite toys until they forget their children and become forever lost.

When Ollie is toynapped, Billy must rescue his beloved favorite from Zozo’s subterranean lair in the old Carnival Place, past the park, through the woods, and into the night.
Never has a journey of ten blocks been more epic 

Presented live in voice. 
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SUNDAY, May 15th: TWO UP FOR GREAT TALES!

@ 1:30pm Tea Time at Baker Street continues...
. . . our sojourn at Crazy Eights on LEA 9 with the next adventure from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's collection "The Return of Sherlock Holmes"

THIS WEEK: The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter

Godfrey Staunton is missing! 

Mr. Cyril Overton of Trinity College, Cambridge comes to Holmes seeking his help in Godfrey Staunton's disappearance. Staunton is the key man on Overton's rugby team (who plays at the three-quarters position, hence the story's title), and they will never win the important match tomorrow against Oxford if Staunton cannot be found. Holmes has to admit that sport is outside his field, but he shows the same care he has shown to his other cases. The game is truly a foot!

Presented live, in voice
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@ 3pm Storytellers' Sandbox
For this final Sandbox session on LEA 9, we welcome two delightfully different story offerings:

Eleseren Brianna is a gifted artist, stylist, and writer.  COO of Windlight Magazine and the creative force behind "The Edge," she shares an original story at the Sandbox today.

The Cold Shot Players promote writing, reading and theater.  And they do it cold, no prep.  They thrive on spontaneity.  Today they share an new, original radio show with the Sandbox audience.

Presented live, in voice
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Your seat in the Crazy Eights Arena is waiting for you!

SUNDAY, May 8th at 1:30pm: TEA TIME at Baker Street!

@ 1:30pm Tea Time continues...
. . . our sojourn at Crazy Eights on LEA 9 with the next adventure from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's collection "The Return of Sherlock Holmes"

THIS WEEK: The Adventure of the Golden Pinc-Nez
One wretched November night, Inspector Stanley Hopkins comes to see Holmes at 221B Baker Street to tell him of a murder that defies solution. The dead man is Willoughby Smith, secretary to Professor Coram, an old invalid. The murder happened at Yoxley Old Place near Chatham, Kent. The most perplexing thing about the case to Hopkins is that it is apparently motiveless.

Presented live, in voice
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SUNDAY, May 1st: TEA TIME at Baker Street & More!

@ 1:30pm Tea Time continues...
. . . our sojourn at Crazy Eights on LEA 9 with with the next adventure from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's collection "The Return of Sherlock Holmes"

THIS WEEK: The Adventure of the Three Students
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves in a university town when a tutor and lecturer of St Luke's College, Mr. Hilton Soames, brings him an interesting problem. Soames had been reviewing the galley proofs of an exam he was going to give when he left his office for an hour. When he returned, he found that his servant, Bannister, had entered the room but accidentally left his key in the lock when he left, and someone had disturbed the exam papers on his desk and left traces that show it had been partially copied. Bannister is devastated and collapses on a chair, but swears that he did not touch the papers. Who is the cheater, and can Sherlock Holmes ferret out they story behind the mystery?

Caledonia Skytower presents, live in voice
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@3 pm Selections from Pride & Prejudice

Seanchai Library is pleased to welcome their new neighbors in the LEA Estate (at least for the next month or so).

Jane Austen's English Countryside is opening this weekend just north of us on LEA 8.  Caledonia will be there today to get "Lost in Austen" and welcome this lovely creation by Armon Aeon and Tigre Milena with selections from one is Miss Austen's most popular works: the romantic journey of Elizabeth Bennett and Fitzwilliam Darcy known as Pride and Prejudice (1813).

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SUNDAY - Two Opportunities for Enjoyment

Sunday is always a big day for literature on the grid, and this Sunday is no exception . . . Join us!

1:30pm TEA TIME at Baker Street
  

"The Return of Sherlock Holmes" continues as Seanchai Library presents all 13 adventures in the collection in the LEA 9 221b Lounge, concluding at May's ending.

THIS WEEK: "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons"

Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard brings Holmes a seemingly trivial problem about a man who shatters plaster busts of Napoleon. One was shattered in Morse Hudson’s shop, and two others, sold by Hudson to a Dr. Barnicot, were smashed after the doctor’s house and branch office had been burgled. Nothing else was taken. In the former case, the bust was taken outside before being broken.

Holmes knows that Lestrade’s theory about a Napoleon-hating lunatic must be wrong. The busts in question all came from the same mold. Why is he breaking them?

In the Baker Street Arena.  Enter the door to 221b and join the happy Tea Time crew.
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@ 3pm: STORYTELLERS' SANDBOX at the Crazy Eights Arena

welcome to the another Storytellers' Sandbox at Crazy Eights, designed to providing a forum for new stories, new storytellers, and new ways to present them.  

This Sandbox we are pleased to welcome to the Crazy Eights Arena: Bryn Taleweaver, Virginia (UnderstandingComplexity Resident), and Boudicca Amat.  Three voices with three unique stories to share.

Presented live in voice.
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OUT & ABOUT: A SEANCHAI SUNDAY

It's Spring and we are out about the SL grid on Sunday, sharing stories and enjoying the season ...

1:30pm TEA TIME at Baker Street
  

"The Return of Sherlock Holmes" continues as Seanchai Library presents all 13 adventures in the collection in the LEA 9 221b Lounge, concluding at May's ending.

THIS WEEK: "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton"
Holmes is hired by the débutante Lady Eva Blackwell to retrieve compromising letters from a blackmailer: Milverton, who causes Holmes more revulsion than any of the 50-odd murderers in his career. Milverton is "the king of blackmailers" and he makes his living out of blackmail.

In the Baker Street Arena.  Enter the door to 221b and join the happy Tea Time crew.
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3 pm "Stories at the Park" ~ Holly Kai Park
  

Kayden and Caledonia share stories and poetry written for the exhibition at Holly Kai Park's Art in the Park outdoor gallery which currently features the work of visiting artists Io Bechir, Goodcross, Hana Hoo, Mistero Hifeng and Sisse Singh.

Join us in the stone gazebo (just up the hill from the landing point) surrounded by virtual nature and art. Consider coming a few minutes early, or plan to linger after and explore the sculpture, painting, and photographic art of the featured artists.  

Check Out Inara Pey's Preview of Stories at the Park at Living in a Modemworld

Presented live in voice.

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SUNDAY, March 13th at 1:30pm: TEA TIME at Baker Street

Tea Time continues its sojourn at Crazy Eights on LEA 9 with with the next adventure from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's collection "The Return of Sherlock Holmes"

THIS WEEK: The Adventure of Black Peter

Forest Row in the Weald is the scene of a gruesome harpoon murder, and a young police inspector, Stanley Hopkins, asks Holmes, whom he admires, for help. Could a young man, out to restore his family's good name have harpooned a hearty man of the sea to death?

Kayden Oconnell, John Morland and Caledonia Skytower present, live in voice
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SUNDAY, March 6th at 1:30pm: TEA TIME at Baker Street!

Tea Time continues its sojourn at Crazy Eights on LEA 9 with with the next adventure from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's collection "The Return of Sherlock Holmes"

THIS WEEK: The Adventure of the Priory School

Holmes receives a visit from Dr. Thorneycroft Huxtable, the founder and principal of a preparatory school called Priory School in Northern England. He beseeches Holmes to come back to Mackleton with him to look into the disappearance of one of his pupils, the ten-year-old Lord Saltire, whose father is the very rich and famous Duke of Holdernesse. Huxtable explains that not only the boy has disappeared, but also the German master, Heidegger, along with his bicycle.  Can Holmes and Watson find the young Lord before he comes to harm?

John Morland and Caledonia Skytower present, live in voice
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SUNDAY, February 28th at 1:30pm: TEA TIME at Baker Street!

Tea Time continues its sojourn at Crazy Eights on LEA 9 with with the next adventure from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's collection "The Return of Sherlock Holmes"

THIS WEEK: The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist

Holmes is contacted by Miss Violet Smith of Farnham, Surrey about an unusual turn in her and her mother’s lives. Violet’s father has recently died, and left his wife and daughter rather poor. However, a notice appeared in the newspaper not much later inquiring as to their whereabouts. Answering it, they met Mr. Carruthers and Mr. Woodley, the former a pleasant enough man, but the latter a bully. They had come from South Africa, where they had known Violet’s uncle Ralph Smith, who had now also died in poverty and apparently wanted to see that his relatives were provided for. This struck Violet as odd, since she and her family had not heard a word from Uncle Ralph since he'd gone to South Africa 25 years ago. Carruthers and Woodley explained that before dying, Ralph had heard of his brother’s death and felt responsible for his survivors’ welfare.

Yet, Violet rejects the unwanted attentions of Woodley and she finds she is being followed.  Despite her tremendous fortitude, she is relying on Sherlock Holmes to help her understand the profound peril that seems to be lurking about her.

Corwyn Allen, Kayden Oconnell, John Morland and Caledonia Skytower present, live in voice
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SUNDAY, February 21st: TWICE THE SESSIONS, TWICE THE FUN!

@ 1:30pm: TEA TIME at Baker Street
Tea Time continues its sojourn at Crazy Eights on LEA 9 with with the next adventure from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's collection "The Return of Sherlock Holmes"

THIS WEEK: The Adventure of the Norwood Builder

Mr. Hilton Cubitt of Ridling Thorpe Manor in Norfolk visits Sherlock Holmes and gives him a piece of paper with this mysterious sequence of stick figures. The little dancing men are at the heart of a mystery which seems to be driving his young wife Elsie Patrick to distraction. He married her about 3 years ago, and until recently, everything was well. She is American, and before the wedding, she asked her husband-to-be to promise her never to ask about her past, as she had had some “very disagreeable associations” in her life, although she said that there was nothing that she was personally ashamed of. Mr. Cubitt swore the promise and, being an honourable English gentleman, insists on living by it, which is one of the things causing difficulty at Ridling Thorpe Manor.

Kayden Oconnell, John Morland and Caledonia Skytower present, live in voice.
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@ 3pm: STORYTELLERS' SANDBOX at the Crazy Eights Arena
Storytellers' Sandbox at Crazy Eights is designed to providing a forum for new stories, new storytellers, and new ways to present them.  

The first Sandbox will feature:

Artist and Storyteller Hana Hoo ~  "I am a storyteller, but at the same time I am very visual because a good image will tell a story of its’ own.  I love to explore the mystery of light and shadow at play and I'm fond of both woodland and old stones.  In SL I began to see some of my own stories reflected in fantasy landscapes so I began to use some of the images I photographed here. https://cybeleshineblog.wordpress.com/

Author Dulcie Mills with her newest work: In the physical world Duclcie workd as a referecne librarian for a public library in Long Island.   Her second romantic suspense novel, "A Stone's Throw" has been published by Limitless Publishing, LLC. It is the story of a widowed librarian who visits her husband's home town and finds a new love with the town's newspaper publisher but also discovers some alarming truths about her husband's death and its connection to the publisher and his family. She is currently at work on another Cobble Cove novel what will be a sequel to "A Stone's Throw." Her Amazon author page.

. . .  and last but never truly least, the ever creative Trolley Trollop with selections from THE TAO OF MARTHA. "After all, she’s no Martha Stewart. And that’s why Jen is going to Martha up and live her life according to the advice of America’s overachieving older sister—the woman who turns lemons into lavender-infused lemonade. Maybe Jen can avoid food poisoning if she follows Martha’s dictates on proper storage. Maybe she can rid her workout clothes of meatball stains by using Martha’s laundry tips. Maybe she can create a more meaningful anniversary celebration than getting drunk in the pool with her husband. Again. And maybe she’ll discover that the key to happiness does, in fact, lie in Martha’s perfectly arranged cupboards and charcuterie platters."

Presented live in voice.
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SUNDAY, February 14th at 1:30pm: TEA TIME at Baker Street!

Tea Time continues its sojourn at Crazy Eights on LEA 9 with with the next adventure from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's collection "The Return of Sherlock Holmes"

THIS WEEK: The Adventure of the Norwood Builder

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are visited by "the unhappy John Hector McFarlane", a young lawyer from Blackheath who has been accused of murdering one of his clients, a builder called Jonas Oldacre. McFarlane explains to Holmes that Oldacre had come to his office only the day before and asked him to draw up his will in legal language. McFarlane saw to his surprise that Oldacre was making him the sole beneficiary, and heir to a considerable bequest at that. McFarlane could not imagine why. This business took McFarlane to Oldacre's house in Norwood where some documents had to be examined for legal purposes leading to the even more unimaginable - murder!

Corwyn Allen, Kayden Oconnell, John Morland and Caledonia Skytower present, live in voice.

SUNDAY, February 7th at 1:30pm: TEA TIME at Baker Street

He's baaaaack . . . .

And so are Corwyn, Kayden, John and Caledonia.  They've taken up residence in 221B Baker Street, at Crazy Eights on LEA 9 to present "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" from February to May.

TODAY: "The Adventure of the Empty House"

In April 1894, Watson (now a widower) checks 427 Park Lane where a young gambler, the Honorable Ronald Adair, was shot in a closed room on the 30th of March. He bumps into a wizened old book collector, who follows him home to his Kensington practice study then drops his disguise – it is Holmes. He's alive!

Join the crew in the "Baker Street Lounge" for this new journey, and settle down with a fresh cuppa.  The chairs are still comfy!

Presented Live in voice.

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SUNDAY, November 3rd at 1:30pm: TEA TIME at Baker Street!

Corwyn and Caledonia crack open yet another case from THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES!  Grabba a cuppa and join him at the fireside for another thrilling adventure.  THIS WEEK"The Adventure of the Second Stain."

Lord Bellinger, the Prime Minister, and Trelawney Hope, the Secretary of State for European Affairs, come to Holmes in the matter of a document stolen from Hope's dispatch box, which he kept at home in Whitehall Terrace when not at work. If divulged, this document could bring about very dire consequences for all Europe, even war. They are loath to tell Holmes at first the exact nature of the document's contents, but when Holmes declines to take on their case, they tell him that it was a rather injudicious letter from a foreign potentate. It disappeared from the dispatch box one evening when Hope was out for four hours. No-one in the house knew about the document, not even the Secretary's wife, with whom he will not discuss his work. None of the servants could have guessed what was in the box.

Holmes decides to begin with some spies known to him, and is then astonished to hear from Dr. Watson that one of those that he names has been murdered. Eduardo Lucas of Godolphin Street, near Whitehall, was stabbed to death at his house last night. Holmes is sure that this is beyond coincidence.

Corwyn Allen and Caledonia Skytower, live in voice.

SUNDAY, October 20th at 1:30pm: TEA TIME at Baker Street!

Corwyn and Caledonia crack open yet another case from THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES!  Grabba a cuppa and join him at the fireside for another thrilling adventure.  THIS WEEK"The Adventure of the Abbey Grange."

 Holmes wakes Doctor Watson up early one winter morning to rush to a murder scene at the Abbey Grange near Chislehurst. Sir Eustace Brackenstall has been killed, apparently by burglars. Inspector Stanley Hopkins believes that it was the infamous Randall gang, a father and two sons, who have committed several other burglaries in the neighborhood.

Holmes and Watson arrive at Abbey Grange, where Lady Brackenstall is resting with a purple swelling over one eye, the result of a blow during the previous night's incident. There are also two red spots on her arm. Her maid, Theresa Wright, who has been with her mistress since she was born, later tells Holmes that Sir Eustace stabbed her with a hatpin.

A hat pin?!!!

Corwyn Allen and Caledonia Skytower, live in voice.

SUNDAY, October 13th at 1:30pm: TEA TIME at Baker Street!

Corwyn and Caledonia crack open yet another case from THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES!  Grabba a cuppa and join him at the fireside for another thrilling adventure.  THIS WEEK"The Adventure of the Missing Three Quarter."
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Mr. Cyril Overton of Trinity College, Cambridge comes to Holmes seeking his help in Godfrey Staunton’s disappearance. Staunton is the key man on Overton’s rugby team, and they will never win the important match tomorrow against Oxford if Staunton cannot be found. Holmes has to admit that sport is outside his field, but he shows the same care he has shown to his other cases.

Presented Live in Voice.

SUNDAY, October 6th at 1:30pm: TEA TIME at Baker Street

Corwyn and Caledonia crack open yet another case from THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES!  Grabba a cuppa and join him at the fireside for another thrilling adventure.  THIS WEEK (Really): "The Adventure of the Golden Pince Nez."

One wretched November night, Inspector Stanley Hopkins comes to see Holmes at 221B Baker Street to tell him of a murder that defies solution. The dead man is Willoughby Smith, secretary to Professor Coram, an old invalid. The murder happened at Yoxley Old Place near Chatham, Kent. The most perplexing thing about the case to Hopkins is that it is apparently motiveless. Willoughby Smith seems to have nothing untoward in his background, and not an enemy in the world. He was the third secretary to the professor, the former ones not having worked out. The murder weapon was a sealing-wax knife belonging to the professor.

Presented Live in Voice.

SUNDAY, September 29th at 1:30pm: TEA TIME on Baker Street

Corwyn cracks open yet another case from THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES!  Grabba a cuppa and join him at the fireside for another thrilling adventure.  THIS WEEK (Really): "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons."

Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard brings Holmes a seemingly trivial problem about a man who shatters plaster busts of Napoleon. One was shattered in Morse Hudson’s shop, and two others, sold by Hudson to a Dr. Barnicot, were smashed after the doctor’s house and branch office had been burgled. Nothing else was taken. In the former case, the bust was taken outside before being broken. Holmes knows that Lestrade’s theory about a Napoleon-hating lunatic must be wrong. The busts in question all came from the same mould. Why is he breaking them?

Presented Live in Voice.

SUNDAY, September 22nd @ 1:30PM: TEA TIME at Baker Street!

Corwyn and Caledonia crack open yet another case from THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES!  Grabba a cuppa and join them at the fireside for another thrilling adventure.  THIS WEEK (Really): "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton."

Holmes is hired by the débutante Lady Eva Blackwell to retrieve compromising letters from a blackmailer: Milverton, who causes Holmes more revulsion than any of the 50-odd murderers in his career. Milverton is "the king of blackmailers" and he makes his living out of blackmail. He demands £7,000 (about $700,000 in 2010) for the letters, which would cause a scandal that would end Lady Eva's marriage engagement. Holmes offers £2,000, all Lady Eva can pay, but Milverton insists on £7,000. It is worth £2,000 to him to make an example of Lady Eva. Holmes resolves to recover the letters by whatever means necessary, as Milverton has placed himself outside the bounds of morality.

Presented Live in Voice.

SUNDAY, September 14th at 1:30pm: TEA TIME at Baker Street!

Corwyn and Caledonia crack open yet another case from THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES!  Grabba a cuppa and join them at the fireside for another thrilling adventure.  THIS WEEK (Really): "The Adventure of Black Peter."

Forest Row in the Weald is the scene of a gruesome harpoon murder, and a young police inspector, Stanley Hopkins, asks Holmes, whom he admires, for help. Holmes has already determined that it would take a great deal of strength and skill to run a man through with a harpoon and embed it in the wall behind him.

Presented Live in Voice.

Sunday, September 8th at 1:30pm: TEA TIME at Baker Street!

Corwyn and Caledonia crack open yet another case from THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES!  Grabba a cuppa and join them at the fireside for another thrilling adventure.  THIS WEEK: "The Adventure of Black Peter."

Forest Row in the Weald is the scene of a gruesome harpoon murder, and a young police inspector, Stanley Hopkins, asks Holmes, whom he admires, for help. Holmes has already determined that it would take a great deal of strength and skill to run a man through with a harpoon and embed it in the wall behind him.
Presented Live in Voice.