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First Name
Sandra
Middle Name
Last Name
Measels
Stage Name
Privacy
Phone
6019413773
Website
Region
Southeast
Street Address
1839 Measels Road
City
Morton
State/Province
MS
Country
United States
Postal Code
Primary type of performance
Historical Stories
Stories
Women of the Bible stories are for adults and teenagers. Bible stories to children.Also, true personal experiences and stories about some of Mississippi>s legendary women. Sample:<She Called Him Mister, But She Didn>t Mean It.< Mary, mother of Jesus (1st person); Mary Magdalene and the Easter Story(1st person); Old Testament Heroines (3rd person);Witch of Yazoo, made famous by Willie Morris; Lady in Red, whose unmarked grave was discovered in Delta
Bi or Multi Lingual
Bio
For Sandra Measels, the best part of storytelling is the sense of community she feels when telling or hearing a good story. She tells about independent women in the Bible and legendary women of Mississippi and about the time her niece singlehandedly stopped a train on the outskirts of London. At this year>s National Storytelling Conference, she told the story of her grandmother, Annie McDonald Jackson, in a Fringe performance entitled <She Called Him Mister, But She Didn>t Mean It.<
She gets her love of storytelling honestly. She grew up listening to her daddy>s stories about the army and World War II Czechoslovakia and their fifth-generation Mississippi family.
She has been telling her own stories for years, mostly to her friends and to her community college students. Now, however, she enjoys telling stories to a wider audience. Aside from the Fringe, her favorite storytelling experience was the week she spent in Romania, where she told Bible stories to gypsy children in the villages of Transylvania.
Once upon a time, she wrote romances, which were consistently praised and promptly rejected by editors everywhere. More recent publications include <Bringing Biblical Women to Life,< published in InSideStory--an ezine of the Florida Storytelling Association, and a history of her church>s first 100 years.
She gets her love of storytelling honestly. She grew up listening to her daddy>s stories about the army and World War II Czechoslovakia and their fifth-generation Mississippi family.
She has been telling her own stories for years, mostly to her friends and to her community college students. Now, however, she enjoys telling stories to a wider audience. Aside from the Fringe, her favorite storytelling experience was the week she spent in Romania, where she told Bible stories to gypsy children in the villages of Transylvania.
Once upon a time, she wrote romances, which were consistently praised and promptly rejected by editors everywhere. More recent publications include <Bringing Biblical Women to Life,< published in InSideStory--an ezine of the Florida Storytelling Association, and a history of her church>s first 100 years.
Ages
All Ages
School Districts
Workshops
No
Requirements
Negotiable, depends in great part on location
Mentor
Yes
Cost
Travel
Yes