How does a 6-hour plane flight become a 14-hour story? It’s all in the timing.

I was enrolled in a workshop that was run by what at the time was called NAPPS (The National Association for the Preservation and Perpetuation of Storytelling). It was a weeklong conference on “Using Community and Family Stories in Teaching”.  Renowned storytellers, Syd Lieberman and Barre Tolken, were teaching the class. The course was held at the site of the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee.

This workshop was to begin on a Monday from 5:30 p.m. until 9:30p.m. the first day and then run the rest of the week ending on Friday from 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
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