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THURSDAY, June 22nd @ 7pm: JUNE SHORTS Continues - Johnson

We've read a lot of early 20th and 19th C stories so far. Now we present something a little more contemporary: detective fiction author Craig Johnson.

TONIGHT: "Messenger: A Walt Longmire Story"

Sheriff Walt Longmire, his long-time friend Henry Standing Bear, and his undersheriff Victoria Moretti are returning from a fishing trip in the Bighorn Mountains when Walt receives a distress call from Crazy Woman Canyon. Forest service ranger Chuck Coon is in trouble. Walt, the Bear, and Vic arrive to find Coon and a young woman up a tree, so to speak. The unlikley duo are fending off three very real bears from the top of a Porta Potty and tell a mystifying story of another dangerous creature inside the “convenience.” When Walt, Henry, and Vic face the creature what they find may be a Messenger from the Camp of the Dead, with a very personal tie to Walt himself.

Kayden Oconnell & Caledonia Skytower in Voice at The Firecircle.

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TUESDAY, June 20th: JUNE SHORTS ~ Ursula Le Guin

Ursula K Le Guin was an American author best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe, and the Earthsea fantasy series. She was first published in 1959, and her literary career spanned nearly sixty years, producing more than twenty novels and over a hundred short stories, in addition to poetry, literary criticism, translations, and children's books. Frequently described as an author of science fiction, Le Guin has also been called a "major voice in American Letters". Le Guin said she would prefer to be known as an "American novelist".

Tonight: The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

With deliberately both vague and vivid descriptions, the narrator depicts a summer festival in the utopian city of Omelas, whose prosperity depends on the perpetual misery of a single child.

Caledonia Skytower in Voice at The Firecircle.

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ALSO: Today at Noon: RUSSELL EPONYM, Live at The Glen

MONDAY, June 19th at 7pm slt: JUNE SHORTS Continues ~ It's Two! Two!

Tonight Finn Zeddmore presents two stories by two different authors.

Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer. His works often focus on history, morality, and religion. Much of Hawthorne's writing centers on New England, many works featuring moral metaphors with an anti-Puritan inspiration. His fiction works are considered part of the Romantic movement and, more specifically, dark romanticism.

Tonight, something a little different: The Snow Image: A Childish Miracle
Two children, Violet and Peony, construct a girl out of snow. This snow-image comes to life, however, their parents think she is a human girl and bring her inside where she promptly melts.

H.H. Munro, better known by the pen name “Saki”, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture. He is considered by English teachers and scholars a master of the short story and is often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward and P. G. Wodehouse.

Tonight: The Storyteller

Tonight's session will be in Voice at The Firecircle.

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THIS WEEK (6.19-22) June Shorts Continues

More Stories! This week featuring short works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Saki (HH Munro), Ursula K Le Guin, and contemporary crime fiction author Craig Johnson. Finn Zeddmore, Caledonia Skytower, and Kayden Oconnell present these adventures, live!

We'll provide the lemonade and some "picnic-ables." Join us fireside!

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TUESDAY, June 13th at 7pm slt: JUNE SHORTS Continues ~ Grahame

Kenneth Grahame was a British writer born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1908), a classic of children's literature, as well as The Reluctant Dragon. Both books were later adapted for stage and film.

Tonight: The Reluctant Dragon

Originally published as a chapter in his book Dream Days, “The Reluctant Dragon” is Grahame's most famous short story, arguably better known than Dream Days itself or the related 1895 collection The Golden Age. It can be seen as a prototype to most modern stories in which the dragon is a sympathetic character rather than a threat.

In Grahame's story, a young boy discovers an erudite, poetry-loving dragon living in the Downs above his home. The two become friends, but soon afterwards the dragon is discovered by the townsfolk, who send for St George to rid them of it.

Tonight's session will be on Stream at The Firecircle.

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ALSO: Today at Noon: RUSSELL EPONYM, Live at The Glen

AND: Thursday, JUNE SHORTS features Mark Twain, presented by Kayden Oconnell

THURSDAY, June 8th @ 7pm: JUNE SHORTS Continues - H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote more than fifty novels and dozens of short stories. His non-fiction output included works of social commentary, politics, history, popular science, satire, biography, and autobiography. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and has been called the "father of science fiction."

Tonight: The Door in the Wall

The haunting, deeply psychological story is told by Redmond, a friend of the ascendant politician Lionel Wallace, and describes Wallace’s strange encounters with a door to a garden which seems to find him at intervals throughout his life, without his being able to locate it on his own. He once confided in Redmond that he was concerned that this obsession with the door in the wall was becoming a great distraction to his career, consuming his thoughts and dreams.

Tonight's session will be on Stream at The Firecircle.

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TUESDAY, June 6th @ 7pm: JUNE SHORTS - Kipling "Oh Best Beloved"

Rudyard Kipling was an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work.

Kipling's works of fiction include the Jungle Books (The Jungle Book, 1894; The Second Jungle Book, 1895), Kim (1901), the Just So Stories (1902) and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888). ] His poems include "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" (1919), "The White Man's Burden" (1899), and "If—" (1910). He is seen as an innovator in the art of the short story. His children's books are classics; one critic noted "a versatile and luminous narrative gift".

Caledonia continues our special series with selections from Kipling's beloved "Just So Stories" including "The Elephant's Child" and more.

Tonight's session will be on Stream in The Glen.

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ALSO: Catch Russell Eponym's weekly hour of music and stories in The Glen at Noon today!

MONDAY, June 5th @ 7pm: JUNE SHORTS ~ Roald Dahl at War

Roald Dahl was a British popular author of children's literature and short stories, a poet, and wartime fighter ace. He rose to prominence as a writer in the 1940s with works for children and for adults, and he became one of the world's best-selling authors. His books have sold more than 300 million copies worldwide. Dahl has been called "one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century". Dahl's short stories are known for their unexpected endings, and his children's books for their unsentimental, macabre, often darkly comic mood, featuring villainous adult enemies of the child characters.

Tonight Kayden and Caledonia share a different side of Dahl from the popular author of "James & The Giant Peach" and the Wonka books. In the short stories "Shot Down Over Libya" and "Beware of the Dog" Dahl explores the World War II experience.

Learn more ab out this author at https://roalddahl.com/

Tonight's session will be in SL Voice at the Firecircle.

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Coming to Seanchai Library starting June 5th: JUNE SHORTS!

Yeah! It's time to dust off your sandals, flip-flops, and freshen up those shorts and sun-dresses for the imminent months of sunshine and warmth.

We've taken shorts on in a different way. We've combed through lists of "the best" or "the greatest" short stories in the English language (one list was 500 entries long! Seriously!). We've created a list of our own, and included some short stories that are "our favorites". We'll be sharing them live at the various outdoor venues at our #SecondLife home on Nowhereville.

We'll provide the lemonade and some "picnic-ables." Join us fireside!

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Thursday May 4th - 6pm - 8pm SLT - STAR WARS DANCE & Costume Contest

- Thursday May 4th - 6pm - 8pm SLT -

STAR WARS DANCE &

Costume Contest

With exclusively Star Wars Tunes & Live Rebel DJ!

-- Best Costume Contest by popular vote!! --

!!FOUR PRIZES TO BE AWARDED!!

BEST MALE & FEMALE AVATARS IN SECOND LIFE & IN OPENSIM

At The Imperial Spaceport on Planet Eadu

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TUESDAY, April 25th at Noon: Russell Eponym, Live at The Glen!

Russell Eponym, Live at The Glen

Join us for Russell's weekly performance. Enjoy an hour of 100% live and unplugged acoustic music and spoken word. Russell presents original and traditional songs, instrumental pieces and covers, together with some selected stories and poems: Folk Baroque and Beyond.

Presented live on Stream. All times slt/pacific

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TUESDAY, April 18th at Noon: Russell Eponym, Live in The Glen

Russell Eponym, Live at The Glen

Presented live on Stream. All times slt/pacific

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MONDAY April 17th at 7pm: SciFi Adventure - GOLDEN COMPASS

- Exciting Book Series with Gyro Muggins -

GOLDEN COMPASS

Lyra is rushing to the cold, far North, where witch clans and armored bears rule. North, where the Gobblers take the children they steal—including her friend Roger. North, where her fearsome uncle Asriel is trying to build a bridge to a parallel world.

Can one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible endeavors? This is Lyra: a savage, a schemer, a liar, and as fierce and true a champion as Roger or Asriel could want.

But what Lyra doesn't know is that to help one of them will be to betray the other...

A masterwork of storytelling and suspense, Philip Pullman's award-winning The Golden Compass is the first in the His Dark Materials series, which continues with The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass.

PRESENTED IN LIVING VOICE BY GYRO MUGGINS
at SEANCHAI LIBRARY in SECOND LIFE

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Book: The Golden Compass

Author: Philip Pullman

THURSDAY April 13th at 9pm: PSYCHO! - Late Night Horror

LATE NIGHT HORROR!

PSYCHO!

Phoenix secretary Marion Crane, on the lam after stealing $40,000 from her employer in order to run away with her boyfriend, Sam Loomis, is overcome by exhaustion during a heavy rainstorm. Traveling on the back roads to avoid the police, she stops for the night at the ramshackle Bates Motel and meets the polite but highly strung proprietor Norman Bates, a young man with an interest in taxidermy and a difficult relationship with his mother.

[tonight we present the abridged complete story of this horror masterpiece]

Join us in Second Life

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and Kitely

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and LIVE ON YOUTUBE

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Book: Psycho!

Authors:Robert Bloch

THURSDAY April 13th at 6pm - 8pm: Two Hours - SCARY STORIES CAMPOUT

"S'mores and Ghosties"

SCARY STORIES CAMPOUT

Come in your Hallowe'en jammies!

Campfire, tents, sleeping bags, candles, pizza, popcorn,

candy, flashlights, dark stormy night, and Scary Stories provided!

FREE HALLOWE'EN JAMMIES AVAILABLE AT:

Seanchai Library Downstairs in Second Life

Storylink Hallowe'en Mall in Kitely: grid.kitely.com:8002/OCTOBERWORLD/98/156/3172

Join us in Second Life

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and Kitely

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and LIVE ON YOUTUBE

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Tonight's Stories

TBA

FOLLOWED AT 9:00pm by

Book: Scary Stories for Sleepovers, Vol. 1-10

Stories: Various

Authors: Various

TUESDAY, April 11th at Noon: RUSSELL EPONYM, Live in The Glen

Russell Eponym, Live at The Glen

Presented live on Stream. All times slt/pacific

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MONDAY April 10th at 7pm: Classic SciFi Adventure with Gyro Muggins

- From Gyro Muggins Cavernous SciFi Library -

Classic SciFi Adventure

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PRESENTED IN LIVING VOICE BY GYRO MUGGINS
at SEANCHAI LIBRARY in SECOND LIFE

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THIS WEEK at Seanchai Library: April 2-8

We bring stories of all kinds to life, in Second Life

CELEBRATING GREAT STORIES SINCE 2008!

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All times slt/Pacific Time.

Story events in Voice unless otherwise noted.

The Seanchai Library is located at

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*MONDAY, April 3rd at 7pm: Phillip Pullman 's THE GOLDEN COMPASS continues with Gyro Muggins

*TUESDAY, April 4th at Noon: RUSSELL EPONYM, Live in The Glen!

*WEDNESDAY, April 5th, 7-8:30 pm: SEANCHAI FLICKS - Join us in our cinema space as we share video adventures and throw popcorn at each other.

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Every Wednesday at 5pm slt TALES WITH FRIENDS meets in the Seanchai Fireside Room. The Library has been pleased to offer space for these lovers of stories since back in our Bradley University days. Consider stopping by and enjoying the stories they share, and possibly even contributing a favorite of your own! Stories are shared in SL Voice. Contact Fayleen Bellois for more information.

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All sessions at the Seanchai Library are offered free to all Residents. Have questions? Send a notecard to Caledonia Skytower

TUESDAY, March 28th: Music, Stories, and Adventure

@ NOON - Russell Eponym, Live at The Glen

@ 7pm - More from THE CRYSTAL CAVE

Caledonia continues the first novel in Mary Stewart's Arthurian Legend series, beginning the adventures of a young boy who will eventually become the advisor to Britain’s Once And Future King. This week, Merlin brings the fates of Uther, Igraine of Cornwall and her husband Gorlois the Duke together.

Presented live on Stream. All times slt/pacific

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MONDAY March 27th at 7pm: SciFi Adventure - GOLDEN COMPASS

- Exciting Book Series with Gyro Muggins -

GOLDEN COMPASS

Can one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible endeavors? This is Lyra: a savage, a schemer, a liar, and as fierce and true a champion as Roger or Asriel could want.

But what Lyra doesn't know is that to help one of them will be to betray the other...

PRESENTED IN LIVING VOICE BY GYRO MUGGINS
at SEANCHAI LIBRARY in SECOND LIFE

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nowhereville/204/44/27

Book: The Golden Compass

Author: Philip Pullman

THIS WEEK at Seanchai Library: March 27 - April 1

We bring stories of all kinds to life, in Second Life

CELEBRATING GREAT STORIES SINCE 2008!

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All times slt/Pacific Time.

Story events in Voice unless otherwise noted.

The Seanchai Library is located at

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nowhereville/203/43/26

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NOTE: Beginning in April, Seanchai Library will be transitioning its programming model from the multiple weekly sessions that have been presented for the past 15 years, to a model that includes quarterly stories/series & special projects such as The Dickens Project and the recent Evil Under The Sun project at SLEA.

Some of the events that are currently hosted will continue to take place weekly, including Russell Eponym live, Seanchai Flicks, and supporting Tales with Friends with space for their weekly gatherings. All current series will continue until they conclude.

These will be the only changes in our operations at this time. We are grateful for the community that has grown up around Seanchai Library over the years. We hope that our many friends and supporters continue to join us as we explore the stories that excite and inspire us, presented live in Second Life.

~ Slainte'

*MONDAY, March 27th at 7pm: Phillip Pullman 's THE GOLDEN COMPASS continues with Gyro Muggins

*TUESDAY, March 28th:

~ at Noon: RUSSELL EPONYM, Live in The Glen!

~ at 7pm: More from THE CRYSTAL CAVE with Caledonia

*WEDNESDAY, March 29th, 7-8:30 pm: SEANCHAI FLICKS - Join us in our cinema space as we share video adventures and throw popcorn at each other.

*THURSDAY, March 30th at 7pm: POETRY THIS YEAR in the Glen with Caledonia Skytower

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All sessions at the Seanchai Library are offered free to all Residents. Have questions? Send a notecard to Caledonia Skytower

TUESDAY, March 21st : Music and Stories

@ NOON - Russell Eponym, Live at The Glen

@ 7pm - More from THE CRYSTAL CAVE

Caledonia continues the first novel in Mary Stewart's Arthurian Legend series, beginning the adventures of a young boy who will eventually become the advisor to Britain’s Once And Future King. This week, Merlin continues to work to manage the fate swirling around Uther, Igraine of Cornwall and her husband Gorlois the Duke.

Presented live on Stream. All times slt/pacific

https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nowhereville/204/43/26

MONDAY March 20th at 7pm: SciFi Adventure - GOLDEN COMPASS

- Exciting Book Series with Gyro Muggins -

GOLDEN COMPASS

Can one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible endeavors? This is Lyra: a savage, a schemer, a liar, and as fierce and true a champion as Roger or Asriel could want.

But what Lyra doesn't know is that to help one of them will be to betray the other...

PRESENTED IN LIVING VOICE BY GYRO MUGGINS
at SEANCHAI LIBRARY in SECOND LIFE

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nowhereville/204/44/27

Book: The Golden Compass

Author: Philip Pullman

THIS WEEK at Seanchai Library: March 19-25

We bring stories of all kinds to life, in Second Life

CELEBRATING GREAT STORIES SINCE 2008!

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All times slt/Pacific Time.

Story events in Voice unless otherwise noted.

The Seanchai Library is located at

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nowhereville/203/43/26

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*SUNDAY, March 19th: VOLUME XV: Seanchai Library Celebrates 15 Years!

@1:30pm - Corwyn Allen, Live!

@2-4pm - Stories and Poetry

all in Ceiliuradh Glen

*MONDAY, March 20th at 7pm: Phillip Pullman 's THE GOLDEN COMPASS continues with Gyro Muggins

*TUESDAY, March 21st :

~ at Noon: RUSSELL EPONYM, Live in The Glen!

~ at 7pm: More from THE CRYSTAL CAVE with Caledonia

*WEDNESDAY, March 22nd, 7-8:30 pm: SEANCHAI FLICKS - Join us in our cinema space as we share video adventures and throw popcorn at each other.

*THURSDAY, March 23rd at 9pm: SEANCHAI LATE NIGHT with Finn Zeddmore

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All sessions at the Seanchai Library are offered free to all Residents. Have questions? Send a notecard to Caledonia Skytower

SUNDAY, March 19th ~ VOLUME VX: Seanchai Library Celebrates 15 Years!

Wooo Hooo! Fifteen Years!

Who would have guessed?

Certainly not those of us where were on the ground with th West of Ireland Library and Cultural Center back in 2008. But here we arem fifteen years later. We'll celebrate that incredible achievement: 15 years and thousands of hours of literature live starting at 1:30pm on Sunday, March 19th in Ceiliuradh Glen on Nowhereville.

@ 1:30pm - Music by Corwyn Allen, live!

From 2-4pm: Stories and poems with Kayden Oconnell, Aoife Lorefield, Shandon Loring, Dubhna Rhiadra, Elrik Merlin, and Caledonia Skytower, live in SL Voice.

Seanchai Library - bringing stories to life in Second Life since 2008!

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THURSDAY March 16th at 7pm: DARBY O'GILL and The Good People

- Now, What About Your Fourth Wish? -
DARBY O'GILL

The Only True History, as told by Brian Connors, the King of the Good People, to Father Cassidy, and afterwards related by Jerry Murtaugh a Reliable Car Driver, who goes between Kilcuny and Balinderg
THE most lonesome bridle-path in all Ireland leads from Tom Healy's cottage down the sides of the hills, along the edge of the valley, till it raiches the highroad that skirts the great mountain, Sleive-na-mon. One blusthering, unaisy night, Father Cassidy, on his way home from a sick call, rode over that same path. It wasn't strange that the priest, as his horse ambled along, should be thinking of that other night in Darby O'Gill's kitchen - the night when he met with the Good People; for there, off to the left, towered and threatened Sleive-na-mon, the home of the fairies.

Seanchai Library in Second Life

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Tír na nÓg in Kitely

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LIVE on YOUTUBE

Youtube: https://bit.ly/slr-darby-0316-yt

Author: Hermione Templeton Kavanagh
Book: Darby O'Gill
ISBN: 978-1331265436

Pages

CELEBRATING GREAT STORIES SINCE 2008!

CELEBRATING GREAT STORIES SINCE 2008!

CELEBRATING GREAT STORIES SINCE 2008!