Ocracoke Story Week

 This last week has been a very busy one as it has been the time for Ocracoke Storytelling Week.

In 1998 we started the first Ocracoke Storytelling Weeks and through the following years held 46 weekly workshops until COVID brought them to a halt for 2020.  After that year off, Trish and I were eager to get started back again this year.

Instead of two weeks, we decided that the thing to plan for (there was still COVID uncertainty at our planning time) a single week this year.  We contacted the people who had planned to come the year before and were cancelled and soon filled the week with nineteen participants.

Getting ready for music from Martin, Lou, Marcy and Dallas in Lou and Marcy’s yard.

This year we moved to a new meeting house called Sounds Perfect, a great location with splendid views of the Pamlico Sound.  It was a wonderful week with not only workshop time but occasions for two public performances, one at the Preservation Society Museum and the other at the stage beside Books to be Red.  We had excellent audiences at both.

Sometimes our days seemed centered around food as we ate at at five different restaurants in addition to being catered by Eduardo our opening night and a cookout at our house on our closing night.  Our meal times are actually learning times as we exchange stories nonstop through all our eating.

At the Museum performance.

Next year we plan to return to two weeks and look forward to being back on our normal schedule.