{"id":4899,"date":"2013-10-23T06:08:31","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T14:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cslewis.org\/blog\/?p=4899"},"modified":"2013-11-10T12:05:26","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T20:05:26","slug":"the-chronicles-of-nick-haddad-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cslewis.org\/blog\/the-chronicles-of-nick-haddad-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chronicles of Nick Haddad &#8211; October 23, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><i>Nick Haddad currently serves as the C.S. Lewis Foundation\u2019s Assistant to the Warden for The C.S. Lewis Study Centre at The Kilns. Before moving to Oxford, Nick served the Foundation as an intern in our Redlands office, as well as received his B.A. at Belmont University in Mass Communications. As a part of his time spent at The Kilns, Nick has agreed to write a series of blog posts regarding his experiences in order to give our readers an idea of what it is like to work and live in the former home of C.S. Lewis.<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">I arrived at The Kilns two Sundays ago on the 6<\/span><sup style=\"line-height: 19px;\">th<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"> of October.\u00a0 I had been to The Kilns before two years before in the summer of 2011 when I did a study abroad program through my college, Belmont University. This time, even though I vaguely remembered what the home was like, it felt like coming into a whole new world.\u00a0 All the feelings of being overwhelmed with the magnitude of the history of the home came rushing back (I\u2019m living in Douglas Gresham\u2019s room for crying out loud, but I digress).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cslewis.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/NH4.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4905\" style=\"border: 5px solid black; margin: 5px 15px;\" alt=\"NH4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cslewis.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/NH4-300x225.jpeg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cslewis.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/NH4-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.cslewis.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/NH4-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.cslewis.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/NH4-250x187.jpeg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Many visitors of Lewis\u2019 former home have come to the conclusion that The Kilns feels astounding, and I agree completely.\u00a0 The ghosts of greats are around every corner. I am not even close to coming to a point where I\u2019m content with the fact that I am sleeping only a few yards away from where Lewis and Tolkien would sit and talk about going into wardrobes and little people with hairy feet taking a ring to a volcano.<\/p>\n<p>It was not long before I was thrown into the world of Lewis, being taught the standards for giving tours of The Kilns, as well as some great Lewis facts that one can really only hear about while living here.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>My first legitimate tour was this last Tuesday.\u00a0 I studied the history of the home and of Lewis himself, and was confident in my knowledge of what happened in the rooms and was ready to give these visitors a tour to remember.\u00a0 I waited for the last guests when I heard some approaching footsteps outside.\u00a0 I walked out to greet them and came face to face with an elderly man with a cane walking in front of another group.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t recognize this man so I went to shake his hand and greet the group.\u00a0 \u201cHello, my name is Nick,\u201d I say as politely as possible.\u00a0 \u201cHello there, I\u2019m Walter.\u201d\u00a0 A pleasant name, I think to myself.\u00a0 An approaching man chimes in and tells me it\u2019s really Walter Hooper.<\/p>\n<p>Now if you\u2019re reading this and are not aware of the intensity of this moment, take five seconds and go grab your closest book by Lewis, preferably a nonfiction work, and open it up and read the introduction.\u00a0 Go ahead, I\u2019ll give you a second and wait\u2026. Does the name in there sound familiar? To give you a brief description, Walter Hooper was a personal friend and secretary to Jack in the last summer of his life, and wrote introductions to many of Lewis\u2019 works as well as published his own works on Lewis to continue the literary relevance of Lewis\u2019 works for the past 50 years!<\/p>\n<p>So you can understand my utter shock and surprise to be meeting this giant in Lewis\u2019 life!\u00a0 I could feel my stomach sink to my feet, but I greeted him as calmly as I could and lead him into the home.\u00a0 Debbie Higgens, the current Warden at the Kilns, came in to the surprise of seeing Walter and greeted him as an old friend.\u00a0 She pulled me aside and told me he had never stopped by randomly like this and offered to give the tour for me if I wanted her to.\u00a0 I thought it over for a good ten seconds before deciding that I was going to do this: I was going to give a tour to a man that was personal friends with Lewis and knew more about the home I was about to tell him about than I could ever imagine knowing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cslewis.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/NH3.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4904 alignright\" style=\"border: 5px solid black; margin: 5px 15px;\" alt=\"NH3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cslewis.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/NH3-300x300.jpeg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cslewis.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/NH3-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.cslewis.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/NH3-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.cslewis.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/NH3-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.cslewis.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/NH3-250x250.jpeg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Well as you can guess since I am writing this blog, I did not die of utter nerves and fear after giving the tour.\u00a0 Walter chimed in only once or twice with a correction (or rather a more specific detail) and was happy to tell many of his own stories that I had not heard to the delight of both myself and the fellow people on the tour.\u00a0 He even said I did a very good job and wished me luck for future tours.\u00a0 I breathed a heavy sigh of relief and laid down in my bed decompressing for a while after that.<\/p>\n<p>I figured that would be the end of the day, but I was invited to attend the first meeting of the C.S. Lewis Society here in Oxford, and who should be speaking but Alister McGrath? The man who recently published a very well-received biography of Lewis and is quite possibly one of the most intelligent men I\u2019ve ever had the pleasure of listening to.\u00a0 Of course, let\u2019s just top off the day by getting to meet him after the meeting. I think I have met my Lewis connections quota for the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Life at the Kilns has been amazing thus far, and I look forward to painting a greater picture to what it is like to live in the home of Lewis.\u00a0 I do not expect to get used to living here any time soon, which I am very okay with. I hope you\u2019ll join me in this process as I take this exciting journey that is life in Oxford and living at the Kilns.\u00a0 Until next time, this is Nick Haddad, signing off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Haddad currently serves as the C.S. Lewis Foundation\u2019s Assistant to the Warden for The C.S. 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