SUMMER STORIES Continues Tonight, PLUS Russell Eponym in The Glen

 

@ NOON: Russell Eponym, Live in The Glen!

@7pm: THE FIRST STATE OF BEING Continues

When twelve-year-old Michael Rosario meets a mysterious boy from the future, his life is changed forever.

It's August 1999. For twelve-year-old Michael Rosario, life at Fox Run Apartments in Red Knot, Delaware, is as ordinary as ever—except for the looming Y2K crisis and his overwhelming crush on his fifteen-year-old babysitter, Gibby. But when a disoriented teenage boy named Ridge appears out of nowhere, Michael discovers there is more to life than stockpiling supplies and pining over Gibby.

Caledonia Skytower presents Erin Entrada Kelly's 2025 Newbery Medal-Winner, live on Stream.

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SUMMER STORIES Continue Tonight @7pm with "The First State of Being"

 

@ NOON: Russell Eponym, Live in The Glen!

@7pm: THE FIRST STATE OF BEING Begins

When twelve-year-old Michael Rosario meets a mysterious boy from the future, his life is changed forever.

It's August 1999. For twelve-year-old Michael Rosario, life at Fox Run Apartments in Red Knot, Delaware, is as ordinary as ever—except for the looming Y2K crisis and his overwhelming crush on his fifteen-year-old babysitter, Gibby. But when a disoriented teenage boy named Ridge appears out of nowhere, Michael discovers there is more to life than stockpiling supplies and pining over Gibby.

Caledonia Skytower presents Erin Entrada Kelly's 2025 Newbery Medal-Winner, live on Stream.

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SPRING STORIES & MORE, Tuesday, May 27th: "Finding Baba Yaga" Concludes & Russell Eponym Returns!

 
 

@ NOON Today: Russell Eponym returns to Ceiluiradh Glen at Seanchai Library with an hour of live music and stories. Join Russell for Folk, Baroque and beyond!

@ 7PM Caledonia concludes Jane Yolen's short verse novel Finding Baba Yaga, live in the Glen.  A young woman discovers the power to speak up and take control of her fate—a theme that has never been more timely than it is now…

"A harsh, controlling father. A quiescent mother. A house that feels like anything but a home. Natasha gathers the strength to leave, and comes upon a little house in the wood: A house that walks about on chicken feet and is inhabited by a fairy tale witch. In finding Baba Yaga, Natasha finds her voice, her power, herself.

Presented live on Stream.

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WEDNESDAY, September 22nd at 7pm: AUTUMN in Music & Poetry

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,

   Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;

Conspiring with him how to load and bless

   With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;

To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,

   And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;

      To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells

   With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,

And still more, later flowers for the bees,

Until they think warm days will never cease,

      For summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells . . .

            ~ from "To Autumn" by John Keats

Join Caledonia Skytower and Ktadhn Vesuvino in The Glen for an hour of Autumn Music & Poetry (you can even dance too!)

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SATURDAY, February 15th at 7pm: LOVE in Music & Poetry

Caledonia Skytower and Ktahdn Vesuvino present "Love in words and music." It's a program they developed last year. Since then it has been extended, rebuilt, and re-imagined.

It's a braided tapestry of spoken words (Cale) and music (Ktahdn), alternating, weaving, wandering within the theme. Love is a large idea with many facets - it's not all hearts and flowers (only sometimes). The 2020 Edition of "The Love Show" reinforces and reflects the fascinating depths beneath love's surface.

I BRING you with reverent hands

The books of my numberless dreams,

White woman that passion has worn

As the tide wears the dove-grey sands,

And with heart more old than the horn

That is brimmed from the pale fire of time:

White woman with numberless dreams,

I bring you my passionate rhyme.

~ A Poet to His Beloved

by William Butler Yeats

Live on Stream, and in Voice.

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TUESDAY, August 13th at 7pm: WORDS & MUSIC - On The Wind

What do you do with a poem that is too long to read at most open microphone events? Expand it into a complete event!

In March of 1984 Ktadhn wrote a set of very short stories for a friend. They were the first of their kind, and everything he'd written since, including poems, has a few rootlets leading back there. The stories were little scenes that burned in his memory, and he wanted to bring them to some kind of new life in words.

"Stories on the Wind" was sparked by the theme of Wind, chosen by people at the Rosehaven open mic for the following week. Kt has many memories of windy days, including one he'd written about in the 1984 stories. That memory joined others in what became a suite of nine poems.

Recently reminded of it by a comment from a friend, Kt has taken another look at the poems, spent time with them, and rewritten everything - adding a tenth vignette and some well considered musical intervals to create a celebration of air and motion.

Ktadhn Vesuvino with poetry and music, live on stream.

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