Back on the Road

First of all, it is time to get off the island for a little bit.  ServePro has finished tearing out the house; Woody, Armando, and Samaritan’s Purse are working on the garage apartment, so, there is nothing we can do there except be in the way for now.  A massive amount of refuse removal must be done before we can begin to think about reconstruction, and, we need to get back to work.

So, it is time to be in Kentucky for the wonderful Cave Run Storytelling Festival.  This is the twenty-first year of the festival and I have been here eleven of those years. It has been a wonderful thing to watch the festival grow and solidify into its present mature state.

The festival happens on Cave Run Lake, at a National Forest site called Twin Knobs, located nine miles south of Morehead, Kentucky on Highway 801.  The tents are lakeside and beautiful in their setting and parking is right beside the main tent.

We started today with a day of school student field trips.  Students from five surrounding counties come every year, some of them taking very long bus trips to get here.  They are wonderful and practiced listeners who make it a joy to be with them.

Buses pull in and students arrive.

Tomorrow we will have another day with students filling three tents for the day.  When school is out, the mainstream part of the Festival begins and continues through Saturday evening.

Cave Run always programs very strongly.  This year I get to be here with Dianne Ferlatte, Peter Cook, Anne Rutherford, Josh Goforth, Delores Hydock, and Kim Weitkamp.  We are having a great time together.  This is a festival you should think of working into your future!

Dolores Hydock tells to Middle and High School Students.