Caledon Library Activities
Events at the Caledon Library, an affiliate of the Second Life Library 2.0
July Book Discussion , July 15th, 2-4pm SLT
Whitehorn Memorial Library, Caledon Victoria City
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20VictoriaCity/43/209/23
The July book of the Month at the Caledon library is The Island of Doctor Moreau by Mr H.G. Wells.
The discussion will be led by Mr Dominico Benelli, of Caledon
This book is a dark 19th century fantasy of what might result if the (then very controversial) practice of vivisection
were carried to an extreme, and a moral contenplation of the nature of human-ness. But, because it is by Wells,
it is also stirring tale of adventure. In the 21st century, it is again being read as a parable of what it means
when science experiments with genetics.
Copies of the work may be had at the library, or found in the Aetheric Edition, at the following locale
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/w/wells/hg/w45is/
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Etiquette Collection Ball, for Bastille Day, July 14th, 5-8pm
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Carntaigh/84/157/23
Le Bal-musette de la liberte, l’egalite et la civilite
July the Fourteenth, Two Thousand and Seven
Five o’Clock to to Eight o’Clock in the evening, SLT
Coughton Court, Duchy of Carntaigh, Caledon Carntaigh
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Carntaigh/84/157/23
This ball will introduce the Caledon Library’s *Ellen Throckmorton Riel Memorial Etiquette Collection*, which honours the memory of Grandmother of the Duchesses of both Loch Avie and Carntaigh. The Collection will be employed for the edification of Caledon for the Fall and Winter Social Seasons. The date of the ball, July 14th, is also Bastille Day:
“Bastille Day, or the Fourteenth of July, is the symbol of the end of the monarchy and the beginning of the Republic. The national holiday is a time when all citizens celebrate their membership to a republican nation. It is because this national holiday is rooted in the history of the birth of the Republic that it has such great significance.
On May 5, 1789, the King convened the Estates General to hear their complaints, but the assembly of the Third Estate, representing the citizens of the town, soon broke away and formed the Constituent National Assembly.
On June 20, 1789, the deputies of the Third Estate took the oath of the Jeu de Paume “to not separate until the Constitution had been established.” The Deputies’ opposition was echoed by public opinion. The people of Paris rose up and decided to march on the Bastille, a state prison that symbolized the absolutism and arbitrariness of the Ancien Regime.
The storming of the Bastille, on July 14, 1789, immediately became a symbol of historical dimensions; it was proof that power no longer resided in the King or in God, but in the people, in accordance with the theories developed by the Philosophes of the 18th century. ”
http://www.ambafrance-us.org/atoz/14july.asp
For more information contact JJ Drinkwater.`