Ocracoke Storytelling Week

 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.