- Joyce Slater
- Sep 30, 2021
- 1 min read
Hello my friends,
October brings so many wonderful changes. The leaves turn beautiful shades of red, orange and yellow. The air becomes crisp. The harvest moon hangs heavy in the night sky and Halloween makes everything magical. There is a wonder about it all. I love October.
It is also time to tell the old stories of pumpkins, ghosts, and witches and more. Tell your ghostly tales and have fun with it all. MO-TELL presents a program of Bewitching Tales on October 16 th with Bobby Norfolk, Sherry Norfolk and Ken Wolfe. Do not miss it. Register today. I will see you there.
Joyce Slater
President, MO-TELL
There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
- Linda Kuntz
- Sep 30, 2021
- 1 min read
A report by Linda Kuntz, Events Correspondent
Gary and Linda Kuntz, Diane Cox, Lorraine and Jerry Darnell, Ron Stewart, Jean Hatfield, Joyce Slater, Alice Nathan, Tim and Janet Manson, and Rich White attended the Kansas Storytelling Festival to cheer on Rich White as he competed in the Tall Tales Contest.
Rich White WON!
Rich will proudly display the Golden Shovel until the April 22 and 23, 2022 Kansas Storytelling Festival. The semi-finals for the Kansas Storytelling Festival Tall Tales Contest are Saturday, October 9, 2021.Downs, Kansas opens its heart and arms to storytellers and story lovers.
For a small fee ($20 for a 2-day pass) we listened to Tim Lowry, Dan Keding, Anne Rutherford and Adam Booth and other local tellers. Downs, Kansas arranged for food trucks and local organizations to provide breakfast, lunch and dinner plus fabulous desserts.
Downs, Kansas is approximately four hours from Kansas City, Missouri. Lodging accommodations go fast so reserve your room immediately in Downs, Osbourne, Cawker City or Beloit.
More details at www.Kansasstorytellingfestival.com.
- Dianne Cox
- Sep 30, 2021
- 1 min read
Diane is a retired school librarian from Omaha, Nebraska. According to her mom she has always told stories. Her parents supported her creativity and there were always books available to read. While she enjoys telling all types of stories her favorite type is folktales. That is because those stories have withstood the test of time, that there is a reason certain stories survived when others were lost.
When asked what her ideal storytelling program would look like she said “telling folktales to a group of upper elementary (3rd , 4th , and 5th grade) students. At that age they can understand the humor or sorrow of a situation without it having to be explained to them.”
Also, at that age they haven’t much of the attitude that you may get in middle or high school. One of her favorite memories of being a school librarian is every year, for a week in October, she would tell stories to the students. She said she enjoyed the reactions of students that were new to the school as well as those had been involved the previous year.
Diane is what I would term as a serial joiner of storytelling organizations.
In addition to MO- TELL she is a member of:
OOPS (Omaha Organization for the Purpose of Storytelling)
LIPS (Lincolnites Interested in the Perpetuation of Storytelling)
Nebraska Story Arts
RAPS (River and Prairie Storyweavers)
NSN (National Storytelling Network)
World Storytelling GuildTeacher Storytellers
and FEAST (Federation of East Asian Storytellers).
Something about Diane that you may not know is: Don’t mess with frogs around her!