Eric on The Road

Journeys into the offbeat, off the beaten path, overlooked and forgotten - by Eric Model

Saturday, October 04, 2008

Heard on the Road: Storytelling Time in Historic Jonesborough, TN

Back three decades ago, there were some folks in Northeast Tennessee who feared that the tradition of storytelling was in jeopardy in the television age.

They set about to create a festival dedicated to the art of storytelling. There were some 60 souls present sitting on hale bales for the first Stroytelling Festival back in 1973.

Now years later it is time for the 36tha nnual National Storytelling Festival in historic Jonesborough, Tennessee.

Joining us for a Left Jab "hidden America" feature on XM with Mark Walsh and David Goodfriemd is Kathryn Tucker Windham. Master storyteller, author of twenty-four books, playwright, accomplished photographer and popular public television and radio personality, Kathryn Tucker Windham's stories are as unmistakably Southern as the voice that tells them.

She describes the mood and the scne in Jonesborough for this year's event.

The segment can be heard on "Left Jab" at XM Radio's Channel 167 on Saturday at 11 am and Sunday at 1 pm (Times Eastern). If you miss it there, it can later be found as a podcast at http://leftjabradio.com/.

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