Liz Warren | Storyteller

On Tuesday, June 14, we heard 15 of 20 stories of the second round.  The numbers in parentheses refer to our on-going count for the summer.

1. (37) Alison Vincent told Paddy Corcoran’s Wife from W.B. Yeats’ Fairy and Folktales of Ireland.
2. (38) Sarah Stevens told The Brewery of Egg Shells, also from Yeats.
3. (39) Nikki Dugie told St. Brigid and the Lepers, which she put together from several sources.  She made me want to tell it!
4. (40) Michelle Fish (at right in pink) told The Horse’s Last Drunk from Henry Glassie’s Irish Folktales.
5. (41) Lizzy Murphy told The Cow That Ate the Piper, which she crafted from several sources.
6. (42) Melissa Barrett-Traister told Two Women or Twelve Men from Sean O’Sullivan’s Folktales of Ireland.
7. (43) Jesse Soper (at right in black t-shirt) told The Magical Thief from Glassie, after which I begged him to become a professional storyteller.  Don’t know if I got through or not!
8. (44) Angela Roman told The Hour of Death from O’Sullivan.
9. (45) Melinda Bokel (first photo below) told Dreams of Gold from Glassie.
10. (46) Tammy Chapman (secon photo below) told Tom Moore and the Seal Woman from Glassie.
11. (47) Fidencio Ybarra told Swine of the Gods from Glassie.
12. (48) Laura Rutherford told Three Questions from Glassie.
13. (49) Kim Wellman (at the top) told How the Sexton Got the Gift of Bone Setting from Eddie Lenihan’s Meeting the Other Crowd.
14. (50) Ashley Sanders (at right with short hair) told The Cockerel and the Fox from Duncan Williamson’s The Genie and the Fisherman, the second in her planned three-fox story run.
15. (51) Alysa Brimacombe told The Farmer’s Questions from Glassie
16. (52 -55) The previous day while we made St. Brigid’s crosses from colorful chenille pipe cleaners, I told my set of Brigid stories that includes how she gave her father’s sword to the leper, how she destroyed her beauty so she wouldn’t have to marry, how she restored her beauty at the well, and how she hung her magical cloak upon a sunbeam.  I also told a little poem I wrote about her:

Young Brigid knew her life's design.

"A life of service will be mine."

Fiery Brigid true and fair,

Wove a cross and spoke a prayer.

She built her church around the oak.

To feed the poor, she spread her cloak.

She fills our hearts with generous dreams,

And rests her cloak upon a sunbeam.