Showing posts with label elder priestman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label elder priestman. Show all posts
MONDAY 17 Oct at 6pm: "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
TUESDAY 19 October @ 7pm: "The Spectre Bridegroom" with Elder and Derry
Washington Irving was an American historian, biographer, and essayist who also served as ambassador to Spain (1842-46). He was the first American author to achieve international literary renown. The Spectre Bridegroom (1819-20) is part of “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.,” is Irving’s popular collection of short stories, folklore, travelogues, and essays. A cavalier tries to deliver the message to a baron that his daughter’s groom has been killed, but falls in love with the bride. Elder & Derry present this classic tale in voice.
TUESDAY 12 October @ 7pm: The Legend of Sleep Hollow
The story is set circa 1790 in the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town, in a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow. It tells of Ichabod Crane, a sycophantic, lean, lanky, and extremely superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut, who competes with Abraham "Brom Bones" Van Brunt, the town rowdy, for the hand of 18-year-old Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter and sole child of a wealthy farmer. As Crane leaves a party he attended at the Van Tassel home on an autumn night, he is pursued by the Headless Horseman, who is supposedly the ghost of a Hessian trooper who had his head shot off by a stray cannonball during "some nameless battle" of the American Revolutionary War, and who "rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head". Join us as Elder Priestman and Derry McMahon read this favorite fall tale aloud.
SPECIAL: Sunday, July 11th at 2:00pm: An Anniversary Celebration of "To Kill A Mockingbird"
To Kill a Mockingbird is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by American Author Harper Lee which was published 50 years ago on July 11th, 1960. The novel is renowned for its warmth and humor, despite dealing with the serious issues of rape and racial inequality. The narrator's father, Atticus Finch, has served as a moral hero for many readers and as a model of integrity for lawyers. One critic explained the novel's impact by writing, "In the twentieth century, To Kill a Mockingbird is probably the most widely read book dealing with race in America, and its protagonist, Atticus Finch, the most enduring fictional image of racial heroism."
Join Caledonia Skytower, Elder Priestman & Gyro Muggins as they gather on the steps of Boo Radley's House to share an excerpt from this landmark novel live in Voice.
SUNDAY 30 May @ 3pm: More Dragon Stories at Fruit Islands!
Join the WOI Storytellers Derry McMahon and Elder Priestman at the Pandora area of Fig in the Fruit Islands as they share more dragon stories! Tis a lovely wooded setting, similar to the area in the movie "Avatar", so come as a Na'vi, elf, dragon, or just come as you are.
Stories in voice.
SUNDAY 9 May @ 3pm: Dragon Tales
Join the WOI Storytellers at the new Pandora sim in Fruit Islands for tales of Dragons!! All sorts of stories, including the beloved "Tale of Custard the Dragon", as well as a lovely piece from Edith Nesbit's: "The Book of Dragons". Stories in voice. Wear a dragon avi if you wish, and explore the sim, tis quite lovely, and modeled on the movie "Avatar".
SUNDAY 14 Feb @ 3pm: Anti-Romance Stories
Have you had your fill of sappy romance stories? Tired of the relentless Hallmark 'red heart holiday'? Join us for some of O.Henry's finest cynical, satirical, humorous stories of misguided, misplaced, misunderstood love and romance. Elder Priestman, Derry McMahon, and guests Crap Mariner and ChivalryBean Ragu will bring these stories to soothe you, and give you a good giggle.Presented Live in Voice Chat.
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