An immersive story club for peculiarly curious children.

Welcome to The Gloam:

A drop-off, small-group experience in Basking Ridge, NJ—where bright kids find puzzles, challenges, and their people.

Registration opens July 2026 - The Keeper’s List prioritized

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What is the gloam?

We are book-devourers

We are story-lovers

We are puzzle-solvers

We are skill-builders

We are friend-seekers

Who We Are

We come together in the Gloam Keeper’s Room to make ourselves and our world better by examining folk tales from around the world. We ask questions, solve puzzles, and support each other’s strengths and weaknesses through telling and building stories.

What We Do

Why We Do It

Old stories carry old wisdom. In a noisy world, we create a structured place to practice virtues like courage, honesty, self-control, and kindness by diving into stories that ask us to become more than we are.

-Drop-off 60-minute sessions, led by the Gloam Keeper and the Keeper’s Apprentice.

-Each meeting introduces a Reflection (a classical virtue) to explore through that week’s folk tale and advances the story of The Gloam itself.

-Each cohort changes the outcome of the Gloam’s story each week as they solve puzzles, make choices and reveal more of who they are as a group and as individuals.

how it works

Created and led by Angela Masi—director, and theater educator and mother of five. The Gloam is intentionally small, structured, and focused on craft, character, and wonder.

Questions? E-mail Angela at gloamlings@gmail.com