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My involvement with storytelling links to childhood listening to family stories. Gosh my Mom and Aunts and Uncles have good memories! My maternal grandparents were from Tennessee/Kentucky. They passed on stories they had learned as well as great reminisces. When I became an early childhood educator I enjoyed storytelling with children and looked for ways to increase my ability. My start was a story I heard from my Mom who had heard it from her Ma or Papa when she was young (Epamandus). Then. about 18 years ago, I was conversing with Bill (Will) Grant, a colleague at Keene State College in Keene, NH. I was telling him about my excitement about storytelling and he proposed we start a conference. Well it worked out very well. Although Bill left the college a few years later he was a huge help getting it going. We now have have held 16 New England Conferences on Storytelling for Children. It is an informal, warm and fun day-long conference in the Spring. We have been fortunate to have many very extraordinary and generous tellers.
Since I retired 2 years ago, the future of this conference is in limbo. I hope we'll be able to continue. Meanwhile, I am an enthusiastic story listener and sometimes teller to small children.
Glad to be part of this group.
Best,
Mary Mayshark-Stavely
My involvement with storytelling links to childhood listening to family stories. Gosh my Mom and Aunts and Uncles have good memories! My maternal grandparents were from Tennessee/Kentucky. They passed on stories they had learned as well as great reminisces. When I became an early childhood educator I enjoyed storytelling with children and looked for ways to increase my ability. My start was a story I heard from my Mom who had heard it from her Ma or Papa when she was young (Epamandus). Then. about 18 years ago, I was conversing with Bill (Will) Grant, a colleague at Keene State College in Keene, NH. I was telling him about my excitement about storytelling and he proposed we start a conference. Well it worked out very well. Although Bill left the college a few years later he was a huge help getting it going. We now have have held 16 New England Conferences on Storytelling for Children. It is an informal, warm and fun day-long conference in the Spring. We have been fortunate to have many very extraordinary and generous tellers.
Since I retired 2 years ago, the future of this conference is in limbo. I hope we'll be able to continue. Meanwhile, I am an enthusiastic story listener and sometimes teller to small children.
Glad to be part of this group.
Best,
Mary Mayshark-Stavely
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