Epic Summer Fails

08/29/24 • 68 min

StoryTown Radio Show is back with a hilarious episode dedicated to the mishaps that can happen with summer weddings and summer vacations. We’ve got stories from a seasoned wedding planner and all the mishaps she saw over her career as well as a story about what happens when things don’t go as planned in a patriotic rock garden. The Radio Show is the perfect place to kick back and enjoy a summer evening. StoryTown performs in the format of a live, old-time radio show complete with sound effects, musical underscoring, and live skits.

StoryTown Radio is a production of the McKinney Center's Story Initiative. Grounded in the belief that stories connect people to each other, the Story Initiative sets out to collect, archive, and share the stories from the region. Broadcast from Jonesborough, Tennessee, the Storytelling Capital of the World, StoryTown Radio is one way these stories are shared with people, nearby and all around.

Written by Anne G'Fellers Mason, Laurie Herlich, Guerry McConnell, Catherine Yael Serota, Anni Zimmerman, Shanks Oak story inspired by Doug Gross

Anne G'Fellers-Mason - Director

Brett McCluskey - Music Director, Accompanist

John Saylor - Sound Engineer & Editor

Matthew Gulley - Stage Manager

Gary Degner - Sound Effects

Heather McCluskey - Theme Song/Original Music

Previous Episode

Voices from the Archive: Rose Marie Shields

In this month's Voices from the Archive, we hear from Rose Marie Shields, a longtime teacher. If you talk to her students, they’ll tell you that anybody would be lucky to be in class with her. That she has shaped them in ways that are still with them today. And today, we get to have class with Mrs. Shields. In today’s class with Mrs. Shields we’ll shoot for four lessons, including, I think, the best thing we can learn.

Voices from the Archive is a monthly segment of StoryTown Radio. It shares stories from people living here, just how they told them. You might think of it like a news report that tells you about all sorts of things. From ghost stories to apple butter, you could learn just about anything from the people living here in East Tennessee. Listen in as they tell the stories of their lives here in Appalachia.

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Storyteller: Rose Marie Shields

Story Collector: Lynda Harris

Editors: Isaac Wood, Anne G'Fellers-Mason, Bre Walker-Schadler, Theresa Hammons, Skye McFarland

Narrator: Isaac Wood

Music:

Music by audionautix.com
Titles: Rocky Top (trad.), Quiet, Happy Ukulele

Sponsors:

Tennessee Arts Commission (https://tnartscommission.org/)

Trivia with Budds

The Silver Raven

Mountain Empire Cremation and Burial Service

The Wild Women of Jonesborough

McKinney Center (mckinneycenter.com)

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Voices from the Archive: Clinch Mountain Girls - Part 1

In this month's Voices from the Archive, we hear from The Clinch Mountain Girls. These five women came to Tennessee back in the ‘70s, many of them inspired by the Back to the Land movement. They set out on a bit of a quest, with a particular kind of work at the end of their path, and it wouldn’t be easy. They would eventually raise their own food. Some of them would build cabins from wood they harvested. They are good friends to this day. Part 1 is about this quest toward Clinch Mountain, about what drew them to Tennessee farmland, and about getting there.

More stories of these women and nineteen others can be found in "Clinch Mountain Girls," an oral history written by Nancy Withington Bell, one of the interviewees for this story.

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Storytellers: Nancy Withington Bell, Karen Berg, Lee Hoellman, Joanne Irvin, Carolyn Novkov

Story Collector: Isaac Wood

Producer & Narrator: Isaac Wood

Editors: Isaac Wood, Anne G'Fellers-Mason, Bre Walker-Schadler

Music: