TUESDAY, August 1 at 7pm: More from MISS TROLLEY'S KITCHEN

Inspired by the delightful and much buzzed-about essay collection"Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone", edited by Jenni Ferrari-Adler, Trolley crafts a session focused on culinary guilty pleasures made for one and one alone.

In the collection, 26 food writers invite readers into their kitchens to reflect on the secret meals and recipes for one person that they relish when no one else is looking. Part solace, part celebration, part handbook, "Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant" offers a wealth of company, inspiration, and humor—and finally, solo recipes in these essays about food that require no division or subtraction.

Miss Trolley invites you to bring your own favorite guilty pleasure recipes to share!

Presented live in voice.
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TUESDAY, July 25th at 7pm: WHAT'S COOKIN' IN MISS TROLLEY'S KITCHEN?

Cooking is not difficult. Everyone has taste, even if they don't realize it. Even if you're not a great chef, there's nothing to stop you understanding the difference between what tastes good and what doesn't.   ~ Gerard Depardieu

Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors - it's how you combine them that sets you apart.    ~ Wolfgang Puck

Short stories by Laurie Colwin, Nora Ephron, Courtney Eldridge , and Pascale Le Draoulec with Trolley Trollop, live in voice.

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WEDNESDAY, February 22nd at 7PM: THE WINTER OF OUR WODEHOUSE Concludes

Trolley Trollop wraps up her exploration of the many delights of author P.G. Wodehouse.  There are so many joys remaining, but she's picked a "doozy" for her last session: Rodney Fails to Qualify.

Love and golf share equal place in the hearts of a young couple - well... almost equal place! Golf, of course, takes precedence...

Join Trolley for an hour of wit and laughter, Wodehouse style, live in voice.
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WEDNESDAY, February 15th at 7PM: More from THE WINTER OF OUR WODEHOUSE

Things have thawed on the Bradley University sim, but it still is technically Winter.  What's more it's the day after St Valentine's Day and Trolley's steps are still waltzing to the string'ed strains of romance.

Two Wodehousian stories of romance tonight:

 "Absent Treatment" from My Man Jeeves - a newly married man forgets his first wedding anniversary and there's Hell to pay.

 "The Romance of an Ugly Policeman" from The Man with Two Left Feet - features a husband whose wife controls the purse strings. For those readers who have been acquainted with Wodehouse’s “upper crust” characters, this story affords a chance to appreciate just how masterfully Wodehouse wrote about the “rest of us” struggling to make our way in life.

Trolley Trollop, live in  voice.
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WEDNESDAY, December 7th at 7pm: MIRACLE & OTHER CHRISTMAS STORIES

The winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, Connie Willis captures the timeless essence of Willis' MIRACLE AND OTHER CHRISTMAS STORIES contains eight tales-two of which had never before been published, and boldly re-imagine the stories of Christmas while celebrating the power of love and compassion, generosity and goodwill in her magical collection of Christmas stories.

Trolley Trollop shares selections "In Coppelius's Toyshop", live in voice.

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TUESDAY, November 1st at 7PM: DIA DEL LOS MUERTOS!

Dia de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead, is a holiday celebrated throughout Mexico, in particular the Central and South regions, and by people of Mexican ancestry living in other places, especially the United States. It is acknowledged internationally in many other cultures. The multi-day holiday focuses on gatherings of family and friends to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died, and help support their spiritual journey.

“He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us more potent -- nay, more present -- than the living man.” -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“We never bury the dead, son. We take them with us. It's the price of living.” -- Mark Goffman and Jose Molina, “Sleepy Hollow ”

“Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.” -- George Eliot

Trolley and Caledonia share tales of this beautiful, soulful holiday, live in voice.
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Enjoy this Fabulous, award-winning animated short produced by Ashley Graham, Kate Reynolds, and Lindsey St. Pierre at Ringling College of Art and Design as their senior thesis. 

TUESDAY, October 25th at 7pm: More FANTASTIC TALES

With this posthumously published anthology--a successor to his bestselling Italian Folktales--Italo Calvino, a contemporary surveyor of the otherworldly, pays homage to twenty-six of his nineteenth-century precursors. The resulting volume is both an education in the history of fantastic literature and a rollercoaster ride of wonder and terror, vampires, ghosts, and the rebellious creatures of our own psyches.

Trolley shares more thrilling adventures tonight, live in voice.

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TUESDAY, October 18th at 7pm: FANTASTIC TALES ~ Visionary and Everyday

Trolley shares selections from this excellent anthology, assembled by Italo Calvino.

From Calvino's introduction: "The fantastic tale is one of the most characteristic products of the nineteenth-century narrative. For us, it is also one of the most significant because it is the genre that tells us the most about the inner life of the individiual and about collectively held symbols. . . . the supernatural element at the heart of these stories always appear freighted with meaning, like the revolt of the unconscious, the repressed, the forgotten, all that is distanced from our rational attention."

A collection of short stories from some masters of the craft that is apt for Halloween.
Trolls has the following in her kit bag:

Honore de Balzac - "The Elixer of Life"
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev - "The Dream"
Nathanial Hawthorne - "Young Goodman Brown"

Live in voice.
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SUNDAY, October 16th: Hauntings Tales and Artful Stories

@ 1:00 pm - SPOOKY STORIES AT "SCARE ME SILLY" FEST 
As guests of Kultivate Magazine, Seanchai Library and friends presents an hour of thrilling tales in haunted ballroom/pavillion:

   ~ "Things That Go Bump in the Night" an Original Tale by Hana Hoo

   ~ Jacob Peyton's "Guilt" presented by Vortran Torvalar

   ~ Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell Tale Heart" in a unique trio presentation by Derry McMahon, Aoife Lorefield, & Caledonia Skytower

   

~ R. Crap Mariner adds Haunted One Hundred Words Stories to the mixture

The event is sponsored by Team Diabetes in SL, and comes complete with shopping, music and other delights of the season.  CLICK HERE for slurl

Ghoulish guests have arrived early.  They are dying for some scary adventures!

@ 3 pm - STORIES AT THE PARK 
Join Caledonia Skytower, Trolley Trollop, and R. Crap Mariner for an hour of original short stories and poetry written specifically for the current Art at the Park exhibition at Holly Kai Park.

This is the third installment, in a partnershipwith the Holly Kai Estate and Art at the Park.  Come and enjoy the word compositions and the artworks that inspired them.  The current art show ends October 23rd.  CLICK HERE for slurl

Holly Kai's  Outdoor Art at the Park has recently been re-imagined by curator Inara Pey
It is a wonderful transformation.

TUESDAY, October 11th at 7:00pm: More MADNESS & Other Tales

Trolley Trollop returns to the spooky world of author S.E. Schlosser.

"Scream after scream poured from her mouth, but she couldn’t stop herself any more than she could cease wringing her hands. All along the hallway, doors slammed and footsteps came running down the passage."       
~ from "Don't Turn On the Lights"

There is no doubt that Schlosser knows how to make a scary story bring chills to any spine.  She travels and collects local legends and translates them from muttered rumor to credible legend.

Trolley Trollop, Live in voice
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TUESDAY, October 4th at 7:00pm: MADNESS & Other Tales

Trolley gets her spook on with "Spooky Stories" from the interpretive pen of S.E. Schosser: "The Missing Bride", "Bean Night", "Madness", and "The Treasure and the Cats" in honor of Miss Sadie and other familiars.

S.E. "Sandy" Schlosser has been telling stories since she was a child, when games of "let's pretend" quickly built themselves into full-length tales acted out with friends. A graduate of both Houghton College and the Institute of Children's Literature, Sandy received her MLS from Rutgers University while working as a full-time music teacher and a freelance author.

Sandy is the webmaster and writer of an award-winning, internationally-known web site called American Folklore (http://www.americanfolklore.net) that features re-tellings of folktales from each state. She travels extensively, researching supernatural folklore all over the United States.  Sandy also spends many hours answering questions from visitors to the American Folklore web site. Her favorite e-mails come from other folklore enthusiasts who delight in practicing the old tradition of who can tell the tallest tale.

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TUESDAY, August 30th at 7pm: INNOCENTS ABROAD ~ Selections with Trolley

The Innocents Abroad humorously chronicles what author MarkTwain called his "Great Pleasure Excursion" on board the chartered vessel Quaker City (formerly USS Quaker City), through Europe and the Holy Land, with a group of American travelers in 1867. It was the best-selling of Twain's works during his lifetime, as well as one of the best-selling travel books of all time.

Twain recorded his observations and critiques of the various aspects of culture and society he encountered on the journey, some more serious than others, which gradually turned from witty and comedic to biting and bitter as he drew closer to the Holy Land. Once in the Holy Land proper, his tone shifted again, this time to a combination of light-hearted comedy and a reverence not unlike what he had previously mocked in his traveling companions.

Many of Twain's criticisms were based on the contrast between his own experiences and the often grandiose accounts in contemporary travelogues, which were regarded in their own time as indispensable aids for traveling in the region. Above all others, Twain lampooned William Cowper Prime's Tent Life in the Holy Land for its overly sentimental prose and its often violent encounters with native inhabitants. Twain also made light of his fellow travelers and the natives of the countries and regions he visited, as well as his own expectations and reactions.

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WEDNESDAY, August 10th at 7PM: More WOMEN GOING WILD IN THE OL:D WEST

Trolley returns with more tales of women, both real and fictional, in the Old American West.

This session she will be including some works by O.Henry (William Sydney Porter) was an American short story writer. O. Henry's short stories are known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization, and surprise endings.

O. Henry's stories frequently have surprise endings. In his day, he was called the American answer to Guy de Maupassant. While both authors wrote plot twist endings, O. Henry stories were considerably more playful, and are also known for witty narration.

Most of O. Henry's stories are set in his own time, the early 20th century. Many take place in New York City and for the most part feature ordinary people: clerks, policemen, waitresses, etc.

Trolley Trollop, Live in Voice. 

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WEDNESDAY, August 3rd at 7PM: WOMEN GOING WILD IN THE OLD WEST

"Cigareetes, whuskey and wild wild women
They'll drive you crazy, they'll drive you insane"
You want to see insane?  We'll show you insane!  Houses made of sod, half buried in the land.  Try keeping THAT floor clean - try keeping ANYTHING clean!  Stampedes of bison, elk, and just about anything else that gets in a huffy mood.  Cooking who-knows-what into something resembling a hearty meal.  Some dull poke with a six-shooter, a'struttin' around thinking he's God's gift.  What kind of place is this for a respectable woman to carve out a life?  Well, if there's anything we know about the female of the species, it is their endless capacity to adapt  - never underestimate the power of a woman to make do.  When the world around them gets wild, a good woman just gets wilder!

Join Trolley Trollop for tales of women making do in the Old West.  Live in Voice. 

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TUESDAY, June 14th at 7pm: SOUTHERN LADIES & GENTLEMEN

The writings of Florence King continue as Trolley Trollop presents Southern Ladies and Gentlemen (1993),

"Looking for guidance in understanding the ways and means of Southern culture? Look no further. Florence King’s celebrated field guide to the land below the Mason-Dixon Line is now blissfully back in print, just in time.

"The Failed Southern Lady’s classic primer on Dixie manners captures such storied types as the Southern Woman (frigid, passionate, sweet, bitchy, and scatterbrained–all at the same time), the Self-Rejuvenating Virgin, and the Good Ole Boy in all his coats and stripes. (The Clinton questions–is he a G.O.B. or isn’t he?–Miss king covers in her hilarious new Afterword.)

"No one has ever made more sharp, scathing, affectionate, real sense out of the land of the endless Civil War than Florence King in these razor-edged pages."

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TUESDAY, June 7th at 7PM: More from WHEN SISTERHOOD WAS IN FLOWER

We come to the end of our saga, but wait!  There's more!

Trolley wraps up the adventures of Isabel and Farnsworth, the pig (no, a REAL one!).  Then she will shares more of the unique humor and wit of the Late Florence King, with selections from "Southern ladies and Gentlemen."

With Florence King, you just never know where the gut-busting humor ends and the unique moment of human insight begins.

Presented live in voice.

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TUESDAY, May 31st at 7pm: WHEN SISTERHOOD WAS IN FLOWER Continues

Florence Virginia King was an American novelist, essayist and columnist.

While her early writings focused on the American South and those who live there, much of King's later work was published in National Review. Until her retirement in 2002, her column in National Review, "The Misanthrope's Corner", was known for "serving up a smorgasbord of curmudgeonly critiques about rubes and all else bothersome to the Queen of Mean", as the magazine put it. After leaving retirement in 2006, she began writing a new column for National Review entitled "The Bent Pin."

“His Grace called Virginius in and said: "Do you think a priest of the Anglican Communion should be a divorced man with two wives living?" That's the way he talks. And do you know what Virginius said? He said: "Your Grace, if it weren't for divorce, there wouldn't be an Anglican Communion.”  

~ Florence King, When Sisterhood Was in Flower

Ms. King passed in January of this year, and we continue her adventure 

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TUESDAY, May 24th at 7pm: More from WHEN SISTERHOOD WAS IN FLOWER

The writings of Florence King return to Seanchai Library as Trolley Trollop continues reading When Sisterhood was in Flower (1982),

Isabel, a conservative southern writer living in Boston, finds her life taking a number of strange turns. After an explosion brings down the wall of her apartment she is forced to share her living space with her neighbor, an ardent, humorless feminist called Polly Bradshaw. Then, between them, they take in nutty Gloria, who is fixated with all things medieval, including the lute, which she constantly plays, and the death of Edward II.

Things start unraveling further when Polly inherits a house in California, and unilaterally decides they’ll form a self-sufficient feminist commune there. Along the way, they collect Agnes, who is trying to escape her survivalist husband, and Martha, a widow whose estranged husband died after an unfortunate incident with an inflatable rubber doll.

Then Isabel has the opportunity to earn a living as a writer … of pornography …

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SATURDAY, May 21st Beginning at 1pm: THE BIG READ of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"

Alice was ..."considering in her own mind ... whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her."

Saturday, May 21st at 1pm SLT seven members of Seanchai Library's Story Staff will assemble in the Crazy Eights Arena on LEA 9 to present the entire text of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

"We begin at the beginning, and go on till we come to the end, then we stop, "quoted Caledonia Skytower, when explaining what a Seanchai Library "Big Read" is.  Voice performers including Corwyn Allen, Hana Hoo, John Morland, Kayden Oconnell, Dubhna Rhiadra, Trolley Trollop, and Caledonia Skytower.  

The presentation will begin with "Down the Rabbit Hole" at 1pm slt, and conclude with "Alice's Evidence" shortly after 4pm.  The performance will begin with voices reading in pairs and crescendo to a cacophony involving the entire cast, in a script arranged by Kayden Oconnell which includes all the words from the original, with no adaptation.

When asked what more we should know, Skytower replied, "The stage is set: the tea is poured, the cards are dealt.  All that remains is you!"  Guests are welcome to enjoy all or part of Saturday's performance.

The Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Big Read - Saturday, May 21st beginning at 1pm live in voice at the Crazy Eights Arena on LEA9

TUESDAY, May 17th at 7pm: More from WHEN SISTERHOOD WAS IN FLOWER

The writings of Florence King return to Seanchai Library as Trolley Trollop continues reading When Sisterhood was in Flower (1982),

Isabel, a conservative southern writer living in Boston, finds her life taking a number of strange turns. After an explosion brings down the wall of her apartment she is forced to share her living space with her neighbour, an ardent, humourless feminist called Polly Bradshaw. Then, between them, they take in nutty Gloria, who is fixated with all things medieval, including the lute, which she constantly plays, and the death of Edward II.

Things start unravelling further when Polly inherits a house in California, and unilaterally decides they’ll form a self-sufficient feminist commune there. Along the way, they collect Agnes, who is trying to escape her survivalist husband, and Martha, a widow whose estranged husband died after an unfortunate incident with an inflatable rubber doll.

Then Isabel has the opportunity to earn a living as a writer … of pornography …

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