by Ken Schworm | Feb 5, 2018
Originally presented at the Wright Chapel at the Lakewood Presbyterian Church “Thy breath be rude,” William Shakespeare famously told winter in “As You Like It,” invoking a common complaint about the season: winter is cold, windy, bleak, awful. Five centuries later,...
by Ken Schworm | Feb 5, 2018
Originally presented at the Wright Chapel at the Lakewood Presbyterian Church The ghoulish meanderings of the macabre mind of Edward Gorey—a pre-Halloween revel in the madcap, macabre world of an American original. Edward St. John Gorey (1925-2000) gave to the world...
by Ken Schworm | Feb 2, 2018
Originally presented at the Wright Chapel at the Lakewood Presbyterian Church The Thanksgiving story you know probably goes a bit like this: English Pilgrims, seeking religious freedom, landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts, where they found a rich land full of animals...
by Ken Schworm | Feb 2, 2018
“The Devil’s Dictionary”and “Can Such Things Be?” Originally presented at the Wright Chapel at the Lakewood Presbyterian Church Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American Civil War soldier, wit, and writer. Bierce’s book The Devil’s Dictionary was named as one of “The...
by Ken Schworm | Feb 2, 2018
Originally presented at the Cleveland Music Settlement’s Bop Stop and the Hudson Public Library A compilation of tales and poems from several masters of the macabre – including Ray Bradbury, H. P. Lovecraft, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Christina Rossetti, and of...
