Welcome to the Nevada Chesterton Society!
Dear fellow Chestertonians, recent inductees, and most blessed of inquisitive people,
Welcome to the Nevada Chesterton Society! There can be no more of a magnanimous task than getting to know G. K. Chesterton, other than introducing him. As some of you have been recently aquatinted with this “oversized elf” you know among his more Trifling of feats, he composed no less than 4,000 essays; good essays that would fuel any fruitful discussion for years on end. Each is as suitable for our purposes, which is of course to read and discuss Chesterton, as the next. It is an unfair, and practically unmanageable duty to be required to make a selection of a few of Chesterton’s essays and to neglect the majority for our first installment. But as it must be, it occurred to me that there is something that all “modern people want to be made to understand” before beginning any discussion. So I thought what we must know in order to discuss could be the topic of our first discussion. The answer to this riddle can be found at the American Chesterton Society (ACS) Website at the following link:
http://www.chesterton.org/gkc/philosopher/v1n6.gkcessay.htm
The essay is titled Philosophy for the Schoolroom. If you’re having difficulty navigating to this essay, go to the American Chesterton Society home page at:
http://www.chesterton.org/
click the button that says the philosopher and then the link that says Philosophy for the Schoolroom. If that doesn’t work contact me and I’ll email or mail you the essay.
In addition to this essay I’d also like to suggest The Revival of Philosophy - Why?, which can be found easily after you’ve managed to locate the first essay. To finish up I suggest a lighthearted poem like A Ballade of Suicide (I’m no being ironic). This last one can be found also on the American Chesterton Society Website at:
http://www.chesterton.org/gkc/poet/suicide.htm
Some of you may notice a theme between the first two selections, but as a general rule don’t expect one. It will be our attempt to be as stereoscopic as our patron.
We will have our first meeting Wednesday June 7th at 6:00 in the café in Borders Book Store at 4995 South Virginia Street, Reno, NV 89502. If you require directions please go to http://www.mapquest.com/ You can get maps and driving directions from this site. If you need further assistance please contact me. I realize this time and location may not work for all of you, but this will not be our permanent meeting place or time but we will discuss more permanent accommodations at this meeting. For those of you that can’t make it please send me an email with your suggestion for locations and times. After we set a permanent time and location we will generally meet there at the same time once a month.
In addition to our monthly meetings I have also created a Nevada Chesterton Society blog where you will see this letter and may post comments. The blog is located at:
http://nvchesterton.blogspot.com/
I encourage you to read the selections and post comments on them very liberally as it will make our actual meeting all the more fruitful.
A word on how discussion should be conducted: It should be empathetic, candid and generous. As Dale says “Attack ideas, not people.” or as Chesterton says “Never allow a quarrel to interrupt a good argument”
Other than that I would like to extend my most genuine welcome and heartfelt thanks to you and to God for your interest in Chesterton and this society. With his blessing and your vitality I am sure the Nevada Chesterton Society will become a grace to its members and an acclaimed fixture in Nevada.
Your Servant,
Jim Carrico
Nevada Chesterton Society
Welcome to the Nevada Chesterton Society! There can be no more of a magnanimous task than getting to know G. K. Chesterton, other than introducing him. As some of you have been recently aquatinted with this “oversized elf” you know among his more Trifling of feats, he composed no less than 4,000 essays; good essays that would fuel any fruitful discussion for years on end. Each is as suitable for our purposes, which is of course to read and discuss Chesterton, as the next. It is an unfair, and practically unmanageable duty to be required to make a selection of a few of Chesterton’s essays and to neglect the majority for our first installment. But as it must be, it occurred to me that there is something that all “modern people want to be made to understand” before beginning any discussion. So I thought what we must know in order to discuss could be the topic of our first discussion. The answer to this riddle can be found at the American Chesterton Society (ACS) Website at the following link:
http://www.chesterton.org/gkc/philosopher/v1n6.gkcessay.htm
The essay is titled Philosophy for the Schoolroom. If you’re having difficulty navigating to this essay, go to the American Chesterton Society home page at:
http://www.chesterton.org/
click the button that says the philosopher and then the link that says Philosophy for the Schoolroom. If that doesn’t work contact me and I’ll email or mail you the essay.
In addition to this essay I’d also like to suggest The Revival of Philosophy - Why?, which can be found easily after you’ve managed to locate the first essay. To finish up I suggest a lighthearted poem like A Ballade of Suicide (I’m no being ironic). This last one can be found also on the American Chesterton Society Website at:
http://www.chesterton.org/gkc/poet/suicide.htm
Some of you may notice a theme between the first two selections, but as a general rule don’t expect one. It will be our attempt to be as stereoscopic as our patron.
We will have our first meeting Wednesday June 7th at 6:00 in the café in Borders Book Store at 4995 South Virginia Street, Reno, NV 89502. If you require directions please go to http://www.mapquest.com/ You can get maps and driving directions from this site. If you need further assistance please contact me. I realize this time and location may not work for all of you, but this will not be our permanent meeting place or time but we will discuss more permanent accommodations at this meeting. For those of you that can’t make it please send me an email with your suggestion for locations and times. After we set a permanent time and location we will generally meet there at the same time once a month.
In addition to our monthly meetings I have also created a Nevada Chesterton Society blog where you will see this letter and may post comments. The blog is located at:
http://nvchesterton.blogspot.com/
I encourage you to read the selections and post comments on them very liberally as it will make our actual meeting all the more fruitful.
A word on how discussion should be conducted: It should be empathetic, candid and generous. As Dale says “Attack ideas, not people.” or as Chesterton says “Never allow a quarrel to interrupt a good argument”
Other than that I would like to extend my most genuine welcome and heartfelt thanks to you and to God for your interest in Chesterton and this society. With his blessing and your vitality I am sure the Nevada Chesterton Society will become a grace to its members and an acclaimed fixture in Nevada.
Your Servant,
Jim Carrico
Nevada Chesterton Society
Posted on: Tuesday, May 23, 2006
posted by Jim | 3:36 PM
2 Comments:
Hello Jim!
Someone told me of this site last night at the Annual American Chesterton Society Meeting.
I welcome you and your members also to the Blog of the American Chesterton Society at:
americanchestertonsociety.blogspot.com
Thank you for starting a group in your area.
Hey Jim - excellent to meet again, here in the e-cosmos - and what a great blogg!
My best to the Nevada Chestertonians!
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