Wall Street Journal (New York, NY) , April 4, 2014 Summary: We human beings spend hours each day telling and hearing stories. We always have. Why? At a fascinating workshop at Stanford last month called “The Science of Stories” scientists and scholars talked about why reading Harlequin romances may make you more empathetic, about how […]
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by Adah Hetko, guest editor for New Voices (Katie Knutson) The “Bayit,” the home of Jewish Life at Vassar College, sits right outside Vassar’s gate. On an evening in November, we set the Bayit’s parlor with a circle of chairs ready to welcome students, administrators, members of the surrounding community… and their stories. The event
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Told by Ken Galipeau Click to listen galipeau About the Story This story comes from the most important and joyous time of my life. Though I grow up in New Jersey, having a summer place in Rhode Island next to my relatives, including Uncle Ish, was one of the best things my parents did for
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RETOLD by LAURA SIMMS. ©Laura Simms 2012 Based on a Pygmy story from South Africa Please ask permission before telling this story. Contact: Long long ago the most beautiful bird in the world lived in a thick forest. Everyone knew that the beautiful bird brought the rain. When she spread her wings, rain fell.
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By Allison Cox, ©2014. I managed to escape work early enough that afternoon. I remember wanting to escape all the traffic and concrete of the city. I was lucky enough to drive right onto the ferry just before it left for my island. Once home, I lingered on the front deck of my house, soaking
By Doug Elliot. One sunny September day I was leading a nature walk at an environmental center in northern Indiana. We were in a grove of small trees with large, soft, tropical-looking leaves. In fact, this was the northern edge of the range of the tropical custard apple family. In Mexico and Central America I
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By J. R. Cargill © 2009. Once upon a time, there was a handful of little plastic pellets called Rustle. All Rustle longed for was to be useful. He dreamed of being a red umbrella or a yellow raincoat or a plastic toy… Then, one day, he got a job. He was taken to a
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Haaretz (Tel Aviv, Israel) , March 5, 2014 Summary: Even in the easygoing, laid-back environment of modern-day Los Angeles, bringing Muslims and Jews together to talk about the Arab-Israeli conflict is viewed as playing with fire. For decades, “the Muslim-Jewish dialogue that existed in L.A. only took place at the leadership level, among a handful
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told by Joanna Demarest Click to listen demarest About the Story Love of family, country, and the men who fight to preserve our freedom are the central themes of Unexpected Guests, a true-life tale of a 16 year old girl and her encounter with 8 Marines on a Florida beach. This humorous tale tells how,
told by Sheila Arnold Click to listen arnold About the Story “Simon and Susannah” was my signature story when I was a Storyteller at Colonial Williamsburg (VA). When I first read the story, there was no “attachment” to Virginia, so I added the part about the Blue Ridge Mountains. When I started telling full time,
