We have just a tiny place in the back yard where we can grow things. This year we decided to devote most of that space to growing a little corn patch. About the first of April, I planted 65 hills of Peaches and Cream sweet corn. The corn did well and now we are reaping the rewards.
Now we are eating corn almost every day. We get the water boiling and then go out and shuck the ears. What a treat to have right here at home.
I think we will probably try this again next year!
This past week we were joined by sixteen storytellers and two other family members for our 24th annual Ocracoke Storytelling Week. Since we have been doing these weeks, now two weeks each year, we have had forty-four workshop weeks through which have come more than six hundred people.
We rent five houses for the week in which participants stay, some sharing houses with each other. We meet in class each day and all have dinner together at a different place each evening. We also explore the island so people can understand the whole of where they have come for the week.
There are two occasions during the week when participants in the workshop present a public performance. Here we see Pepper Hagebak from LaGrange, Georgia, telling a story at the Ocracoke Preservation Society Museum.
A new activity this year was a fire on the beach on Wednesday night. Our informal times together are very important as these are the time when lots of stories come out to be told.
This week ended with a Saturday trip to the Portsmouth Island ghost town.
This past weekend was the 22nd Annual OcraFolk Music and Storytelling Festival held here in the island. This year it was a great privilege for Trish and for me to have our friend, Josh Goforth, performing at the festival and staying at our house.
The audience instantly fell in love with Josh and their only question was, “Can he come back next year?” His sets were sparkling with energy. Josh also got to play with several of his friends who were also at this year’s festival and with our Ocracoke friend, Martin Garrish.
On Saturday morning, Josh and I got to have back to back sets on the main festival stage.
The biggest thrill for me, though, was, following my closing Saturday night set, Josh and I got to sing together “Time has made a change in me,” to finish the evening. We already already looking forward to our next time to have him here.
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