In 2013, children’s book author Jennifer Bartoli-Kalina recalled how, at an authors’ meeting, “I sat next to Alzina Stone Dale, who was rocking in an antique chair before a blazing fire and telling us of a biography she had written about a so-called obscure English author. Ignorant, I kept quiet and went home to meet G.K. Chesterton in an old poetry collection.”
Ms. Bartoli-Kalina went on to become the local group leader of the Midwest Chesterton Society, whose members discuss and read books, mostly those by Chesterton, who also was a writer, philosopher and literary and art critic. The local group meets at Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore in Forest Park.
