Good morning everyone I'm Maureen Wittmann and I'm here with my friend
Vicki Darkey Vicki is a Chestertonian and we are hanging out in Rochester
New York at the conference this weekend. There's an annual conference in
Rochester just on Chesterton. So Vicki tell me what is a Chestertonian is. Well a
Chestertonian is simply a person who loves Chesterton or a person who sort of
develops characteristics like Chesterton. Yeah. So you are the coordinator for the
American Chesterton society for local societies, for local chapters, local clubs.
Why would I want to do that? Why would I want to start a local
Chesterton Society? Simply because it is fantastic fun. Yeah? There's really a lot
of fun. Yeah. And so what do you do to start a Club? What am I gonna do?
Well local Chesterton societies usually just meet together and read Chesterton,
and talk about Chesterton, and eat, and drink. And not necessarily in that order.
And so how could we meet? You start a club. How big of a commitment is this? Most
Chesterton societies meet once a month. Some meet through the year. Some meet just
during the academic year. Some meet more than once a month.
It's really totally up to the local group to decide how frequently, or the
leader really, to decide how frequently they want to meet. But once a month is
perfectly fine. There are some groups that occasionally have met, maybe
quarterly. Yeah, so make it whatever you want. It's flexible. It doesn't
have to be real hard. It can be fun. And Chestertonians inmy experience are
just really interesting people. I found that to be true too. Why do you think that is?
Hmm, I don't know. I guess maybe because Chesterton himself was such an
interesting person and the more we learn to know about Chesterton and
learn to know Chesterton we become more interesting. So how do I do that? So
you've convinced me I want to start a local Chesterton Society. Sow do I
go about doing that? Well, it doesn't hurt to say a little prayer. Yeah that always helps.
Then go to the American Chesterton Society website, which is Chesterton.org
and there is a drop-down tab for local societies. And if you open that tab
you'll find a link to my email and send me an email and let me know what you're
thinking. Um, the one thing that we like to request is that people who start a
local society be a member of the American Chesterton Society. Okay. So
probably, which is easy to do, join the American Chesterton Society. You can do it right on
the same website. How much is that? Twenty dollars a year or something? I'm not sure.
I think it's a little bit more that. But that gets you connected and it's a good cause
to support. It gets you connected to the worldwide network of Chestertonians
and local societies. And discounts on books and the magazine. Gilbert magazine, twenty
years. They're celebrating their 20th year, right? Yeah. With the magazine. and you
write for the magazine. I have a column. So what do you write about? Local
societies. If I don't want to start a society, but I would like to join one, I
can do that too. Sure on the same website that where you'd find the my email below
it is a map, an interactive map, you can toggle it, and find a find a society near
you. And by all means start attending. Okay, that would be great. So we are here
at the conference. Great conference, wasn't it? Fantastic! Yeah they have an
annual conference in Rochester. It's a regional conference. There's also a national
conference. There's also one in Louisana.
Yep. In Louisiana, they have a life-size statue, huge, of Chesterton, right? Yeah.
And Chesterton square. He has his own square. That's so exciting.
um well is there anything else we should talk about? That you want to let people
know about? Read Chesterton. And when you read Chesterton, you're probably gonna
find that it goes better if you do it in the company of other people who are
like-minded and you'll gain something from it. You get to know
Chesterton and you start to understand his holiness and his sanctity and his
spirituality. And he is currently being investigated, or his cause is being
investigated, for the sainthood, right? I think they're investigating the
possibility of opening the cause. Something we should be praying for. Yeah.
Praying about. You know, praying for those who are who are looking into it
and that God may guide them. But it would be awesome if just we had our own
St. Chesterton. Well thank you. You're welcome. It's good to see you. God bless you.
God bless you all!
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