Gleaning Facebook: Monarchs at the Beach

From Ruth Pinson:

Hey, I found our monarchs! They're here in Panama City Beach hanging out with the Fritillaries! I sat out on the balcony yesterday and watched them ride the thermals!

Terrell Shaw
We ended up catching, tagging, swabbing, and releasing about 65. I wish I could get you a few tags for those sunbathing at the beach! I knew I was being ambitious to order 100 tags, but why not? 

The last one I caught was last Weds and the last I've seen was last Thurs. Have fun at the beach, you old retired lady you!

Gleaning Facebook: One-Acts and Spooky Tales

 

Lots of fun yesterday and today. Yesterday I served again as a judge for high school one-act plays. I always enjoy it. We saw five plays, two were very well done. The winning cast featured a wonderful embodiment of a role by a teenaged actor. Wow. The play was "Running Upstream". The role was a teenager dealing with the condescension, pity, embarrassment, and paradoxical extremes of visibility and invisibility that a person with handicaps endures. The kid's brilliant mind and very typical teenage concerns are complicated and cloaked by the twisted body and barely coherent speech caused by cerebral palsy. I haven't been able to put the performance out of mind since yesterday afternoon. Bravo Jake West and North Cobb Christian School one-act cast and theater dept.

Bravo also to second place Bremen High School for another in a long line of excellent performances. You were just up against an extraordinary performance this year.

Today I spent the morning telling spooky stories to our students as they made a rotation though a special craft class, a special "snack" time, and my storytelling time. I told three traditional tales: "Tailypo", "Wiley and the Hairy Man", and "Jack and the Haunted House". And yes, I managed to sneak a number of Georgia Performance Standards unnoticed into the story-brew. (moon phases, light & color, adaptations, and more) Hehehe. Great fun.

Comments:

Tersi Bendiberg: I know the children you were with, today, loved it!

Ruth Baird Shaw: Great title "Running Upstream" for those with physical handicaps.

Gleaning Facebook: Cave Screams 2011

From Debby Brown:Had great fun at Cave Screams.. it was weird being in the audience instead of telling.. but you were great as usual! I enjoyed your story bunches!

Terrell: Thanks Debbie. I told four different stories. I had told the three I had practiced to my first three groups, then I saw you and thought, I need to tell a realistic story that involves a "real" ghost, and decided I'd tell "Courting One Last Time. Glad you liked it.

Debby: haha.. yes it was great~ a good variation on the old "going to the graveyard and not being able to get away." And yes, it was realistic and believable!

Gleaning Facebook: Cave Screams Follow-up

 I had a great time telling stories for Cave Screams in Cave Spring this weekend. I was very pleased to get some positive feedback, especially this from my storytelling friend Debby Brown.

Had great fun at Cave Screams. It was weird being in the audience instead of telling.. but you were great as usual! I enjoyed your story bunches! - Debetells Sumtales (Debby Brown)

Thanks Debbie. I told four different stories. I had told the three I had practiced to my first three groups, then I saw you and thought, I need to tell a realistic story that involves a "real" ghost, and decided I'd tell "Courting One Last Time. Glad you liked it.  - Me (Terrell Shaw)

Haha.. Yes it was great ~ a good variation on the old "going to the graveyard and not being able to get away." And yes, it was realistic and believable!  - Debby again

 

 

Gleaning Facebook: Cave Screams!

 Cave Screams (The Cave Spring Ghost Tour) is THIS Saturday, Oct 22 starting at the visitor center in Cave Spring. The first tour is at 6:30 and is designed for elementary schoolers. The official tours begin at 7 and run through 9 or until everyone's gone. There'll be five stations: the Southern Paranormal Investigators (at Fannin Hall); Don Davis (IN the Cave!); Terrell Shaw -- ta-dah! -- by the creek; Fred Green at the famous log cabin (Green Hotel); Gail Davis (at the old Martha Jane's Fudge building). The SPI Spookbusters are raffling an SPI investigation at about 10.

Y'all come!

Proceeds go to help restore the Asbury House, the Cave Spring Welcome Center.

Gleaning Facebook: Cave Screams

 Cave Screams (The Cave Spring Ghost Tour) is THIS Saturday, Oct 22 starting at the visitor center in Cave Spring. The first tour is at 6:30 and is designed for elementary schoolers. The official tours begin at 7 and run through 9 or until everyone's gone. There'll be five stations: the Southern Paranormal Investigators (at Fannin Hall); Don Davis (IN the Cave!); Terrell Shaw -- ta-dah! -- by the creek; another teller --mental block!-- at the Vann cabin on the square; Gail Davis (at the old Martha Jane's Fudge building on the square). The SPI Spookbusters are raffling an SPI investigation at about 10.

Y'all come!

Proceeds go to the Cave Spring Historical Society.

Comments:

Terrell Shaw: I s'pose I should point out to the storytelling fans out there that the Teller In The Cave will be the real Don Davis of Cave Spring, not that upstart Donald Davis from NC who uses that name in other storytelling festivals around the country. 

Betty Smith Franklin: Good clarification....

Ruth Baird Shaw: Is that 6:30 pm?

Terrell Shaw: es. I'm gonna tell a silly little jump story at 6:30 p.m. and maybe recite Jabberwocky. My later stories will be (ahem) true stories.

Kendra L. Harris: Oh, I'd come to just hear you recite Jabberwocky.. what memories. 

Awesome.. know you guys are gonna have a blast!

Christy Davis: The teller at the Green Hotel-Log Cabin site is Fred Green. 

It's gonna be a great time! All the money goes to help restore the Asbury House, our Cave Spring Welcome Center.

Gleaning Facebook: Hauntings On Broad 2011

 Good times last night, despite a nasty cold, leading two groups through the Hauntings on Broad. Debby Brown [Theater Bats], Bob Harris [Unquiet Spirit at Lumpkin Hill], Mary Elena Kirk [Carnegie (K)Night], and Christy Davis [Ribbon by the River] did a great job of storytelling and at the Courthouse we got a report from the Spookbusters of Rome, uhhhh, Southern Paranormal Investigators. Next Saturday I get to tell tales at "Cave Screams" down in, you guessed it, Cave Spring. Y'all come.

Boo!

Comments:

Carol Payne: It was a great time!

Christy Davis: Thank you! Telling ghost stories has got to be one of my favorite things. I'm so glad I get to hear you tell a good one next weekend

Betty Smith Franklin: So wonderful! Boo to you.

Gleaning Facebook: Monarchs

I gave the school system an extra day of work today, walking out occasionally to check for monarchs. Fairly late in the day they started stopping by. I saw perhaps 15 or twenty and managed to catch 6 -- 4 males and 2 females. I went ahead and sampled each for the Monarch Health study. I'll probably go ahead and tag 'em tomorrow. I hate not to wait till the students come back, but better not chance it.

If any of my students - past or present - were to show up with a parent in the school courtyard tomorrow about noon, I'd let 'em tag & release a monarch - first come basis, or bring yer own monarch. I've more tags than I can use - any FB friends wanna tag at home? I'd love to have a few more caterpillars. I've got plenty of milkweed.

Mary Nisbet Asbury: BYOM? Now that's funny!

Bob Doster: Were they good?

    Terrell Shaw: Oh,yes... With some fava beans and a nice chianti... Mmmmm