Storytelling in Vermont

On Thursday we traveled to an old farmhouse in Vermont for our semi-annual storytelling weekend. This is the 17th year that our group has met, sometimes in Vermont, sometimes in Wareham, MA, sometimes in Chocorua.

Jay O'Callahan came early and got things warmed up with a roaring fire.
We gathered around and the storytelling started--the theme this time was "the circus."




Toby regaled and alarmed us with the account of Sam as a boy,
getting lost, then found, at the circus in Pasadena.




I described the mighty Majestic Movie Theater in Conway, NH, where tiles may fall from the ceiling, film may catch on fire, the heat doesn't work on a cold night and the air conditioning on a hot night, but where, at 8 am every morning, you can watch a "breakfast" matinee.





Amidst clowns,




tigers,




elephant trainers,




and dancing couples,




Jay concentrated on telling Toby's fortune.




A happy lion




The gang-all here.
(Lion's taking the photo)