This festival starts on Tuesday when students from Athens, Limestone County, and other surrounding areas are bussed in for a storytelling field trip. We have one group for the morning and then a second group after lunch before the school day is over. By the time the school days are finished we tell to nearly six thousand students.
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| Bil Leo with 1,500 third graders. |
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| Randy Evensen charms the students. |
A special feature of this festival is the lineup of student tellers who perform with us on the school days. This year there are eleven student tellers ranging from seven years old to fourteen. The students are wonderful and the audiences love them.
Also, early in the week there is a local teller event from which the featured tellers choose one person to perform with them on Thursday evening. This year’s Athens teller is Leah Oakley who has also come to our Ocracoke Island workshop weeks for the past several years. Everyone loved her story of the squirrel in her fireplace.
Rain in Friday and Saturday did not dampen the spirits of this audience. We have all had a wonderful time.
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