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- From: Barbara.Mathews@f8.n300.z1.fidonet.org (Barbara Mathews)
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- Subject: Re: storytelling
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- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 93 08:52:00 PDT
- Organization: FidoNet node 1:300/8 - Edge of Forever, Tucson Az
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- A soggy good morning Jim (it's raining in Tucson as it hasn't rained
- since the Great Flood of 1983)
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- JM> I was a professional performer (storyteller/puppeteer) for 12 years
- JM> before I became a librarian some two years ago, so that is how I became
- JM> interested in storytelling, but storytelling has a very powerful tradition
- JM> in library work. Folks now see it as one of the central functions of the
- JM> library. Were it not for the librarians who kept storytelling alive
- JM> during the dark years, there would be no storytelling movement today.
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- When I think of puppeteers, I think of people like Jim Henson and Kukla,
- Fran and Ollie. That kind of puppeteer? Wow!
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- How does one become a reasonably proficient storyteller--at least to be
- able to entertain small folks within one's own family?
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- Barbara
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