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| At Hagood Mill Storytelling festival… I'd get to share the stage tonight with this witchy friend! Cora and I told stories together at Woodruff Middle School earlier this year during the Stone Soup Storytelling Festival. |
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| John Thomas Fowler founded the Hagood Mill Storytelling Festival 23 years ago. |
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| Derrick Phillips has a wonderful resonant voice and loves to sing and recite and tell stories. |
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| Cora Newcombe told her versions of two stories that I also tell! |
What fun too be here in Pickens South Carolina again for the Hagood Mill Storytelling Festival. Last year I up and entered their Liars Contest on a whim at the last minute... and WON! That means I am the reigning champion liar of the sate of South Carolina, until the next champion is chosen at tomorrow's contest. I was so pleased when Johnny Fowler called me and asked me to return, not just as the Liar Champ, but as one of the featured tellers for the festival. He also asked me to tell a ghost story for the spooky session that was held tonight.
What a hoot. Johnny, my friend Cora Newcomb, and my new friend, Derrick Phillips of the wonderfully resonant voice, gave a full and varied program of ghostly tales, and I was introduced as a special teller for one story. I used my favorite, "The Lieutenant's Jacket".
The crowd had a great time with all the stories and we had a great time as well.
Sheila and I had pizza from a little place on the main drag in Pickens and took it to our hosts home. Billy Crawford the enthusiastic director of the Hagood Mill Historic Site had invited us to use his spare bedroom for the evening.
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