A great night of southern storytellers: Jan Cribbs, LaDoris Bias-Davis, and Cynthia Rintye.
Jan, in her measured, calm delivery, is the quintessential introvert-storyteller. Who'd a'thought such a beast extant? And this was the story of her quest for vim and vigor from a ginseng and herb shop and the not yet American-certified Dr. Lee, who prescribed Green Onions.
LaDoris is not an introvert. I thought she was about to tell one of my old standbys (and Danny Kaye's) when she announced a short tale: "The Tailor". But this marvelous tailor, capable of fantastic feats such as the mending of broken hearts, was called on to stitch up a hole in the sky. Her second "tale" was a hodgepodge of entertaining anecdotes about the "Things People Say" in her home state of "Mis'sippi"
The final tale was Cynthia's long, funny, and touching tale of her on-again, off-again courtship and eventual marriage with Perry. They met, and both worked for several years, at a Renaissance Fair. Perry's job was to play the Village Idiot dragging a pet log around the fair. "Other women claim to be married to an idiot," says Cynthia, "I have proof."
There'll be more stories all day tomorrow from 10 a.m. till about 10 p.m. Check the photos of the festival program (below) for more info.
Here is the program from the festival (Click each picture to see the enlarged type):
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