told by Yvonne Healy Click to Listen healy Family was a blue envelope crinkly thin as onion skin. My mother sliced it with a butter knife careful to preserve the criss-crossed messages of love held inside. My uncle was the sweet, rank aroma of a brown box stuffed with shamrock plants grown moldy on the […]
by Mij Byram It was the second day of torrential Florida rains. At the Florence Fuller Child Development Center, first and second graders came into the lunch/story room all herky-jerky and bouncy-flouncy after their milk and cookies snack. They were unable to sit or even stand still for more than 3 seconds. The energy was
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told by Rivka Willick Click to Listen Willick About the Story Patricia is a true story. It’s about people we remember and those we take for granted. It’s about people we ignore and those we will never forget. I’ve told this story many times and am usually approached after the telling. This is a sticky
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 Sandy Oglesby click to listen Sandy Oglesby Have you ever heard your phone ring at 3:00am in the morning and hated to pick up the phone thinking something awful must have happened to someone you love? This is “that” story. It was such a huge honor to tell at the NSN Conference. What
The Master Thief claimed me from the start. The title itself jumped out at me from a whole long list of Grimm’s tales I was perusing looking for something I might want to learn to tell. I read through it, and I knew it was telling my story–pieces I had lived and pieces I longed
Presented as part of NSN’s 2022 Earth Up Conference With Doug Elliott A collection of videos celebrating animals and useful and interesting wild plants, their stories and lore.
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$5000 to LIVING STREAMS: STORIES FOR HEALTHY WATERSHEDS Project Director, Will Hornyak Living Streams is a 50-minute storytelling assembly program for kindergarten through sixth-grade students to educate them about the environment in which they live – specifically their local watersheds – and to teach them how to be wise and caring stewards of those watersheds.
2004-05 Recipients Brimstone Award for Applied Storytelling Details »
DIVING IN THE MOON DIVING IN THE MOON HONORING STORY, FACILITATING HEALING © Cooper Braun Once upon a time, a young soldier returned to the shores of America from the jungles of Vietnam. In the city where he found himself discharged, he had no friends and no family. And he found that the people there did not
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Tech Volunteer Incentives: Per Conference: 5 hours or more = 40% off package registration10 hour or more = complimentary package registration Per calendar year: 30 hours of more = complimentary NSN membership for following calendar year Ways to Support NSN There are many ways you can support the mission of the National Storytelling Network. One
