Of course, you don’t have to tell storytellers why storytelling is important. We know. But how often do you meet people who have never heard of what we do? They don’t know about the storytelling guilds throughout Florida, the annual Florida Storytelling Festival, our Florida Storytelling Association, or the state festivals throughout America, or various …
Yvette D. Thomas loved to tell stories. Over the years, she attended many Florida Storytelling Festivals, and she was a faithful member of the Northside Storytellers in Jacksonville, Fl. She had been preparing for the 23rd annual “Bean Soup & Stories Festival” that was held in November when she passed away in September at age …
What is a Florida Cracker? Popular folk lore explains that the term came from the “cracking” of the whips used by the pioneer cattle wranglers in Florida, known as cowmen or cow hunters. In the 1500s in Elizabethan England, a “cracker” described a person who engaged in entertaining conversation (as in “to crack a joke”). …
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