Gary and Linda Kuntz told scary and not so scary stories for two hours on October 13, 2018 at the Knob Noster State Park for the 5 th Annual Hallowfest. The event included games, a haunted house, crafts, food a pumpkin contest and of course storytelling.
People from the age of 2-80 were in attendance with numbers upward of 650 for the programs and 150 for the storytelling. Linda and Gary started early with not-so-scary stories for the younger listeners. They finished up with the really scary tales for the older listeners. The audience was very diverse with representation from several different cultures. Most of the attendees came from the nearby Air Force base.
Both tellers enjoyed telling stories for HallowFest.
October brought the first freeze here in KC.I brought my plants in and turned on the heat. At first the cold penetrates my bones and then my mind. It takes me a while to get used to it. It is a good thing we had a few storytelling events to warm our minds and hearts. In November there was the KC Storytelling Celebration and the National Storytelling Network, Tellabration!!! Thanksgiving brought lots of family stories too. Some cultures wait until the first snow to begin telling their stories.
As for me and my clan we tell our tales all year round. However for those who wait for the first snow, it came on November 11 this year. I am looking forward to the holidays in December and more stories with friends and family. January brings the Chicken Festival for River and Prairie Storyweavers. During that festival, MO-TELL will hold its annual meeting. We want to hear from our members so I hope you show up. You can tell some stories with RAPS and come to the meeting and let us know what you want out of MO-TELL. See you then and Happy Holidays.
A Tortoise, lazily basking in the sun, complained to the sea-birds of her hard fate, that no one would teach her to fly. An Eagle, hovering near, heard her lamentation and demanded what reward she would give him if he would take her aloft and float her in the air.
“I will give you,” she said, “all the riches of the Red Sea.”
“I will teach you to fly then,” said the Eagle; and taking her up in his talons he carried her almost to the clouds suddenly he let her go, and she fell on a lofty mountain, dashing her shell to pieces.
The Tortoise exclaimed in the moment of death: “I have deserved my present fate; for what had I to do with wings and clouds, who can with difficulty move about on the earth?”
If men had all they wished, they would be often ruined.