My grandmom is the very first storyteller I remember. I’m sure my mom read me stories, and I heard some in school, but sitting in the living room of her row-house in North Philadelphia, PA, grandmom told stories different.  She’s didn’t just tell stories, she made world’s appear for places and times I never knew about. I learned everything from stories about my mom and uncle, to Aesop Fables that I read to Baby Girl even now. Knowing what I know now, I’d take more time to learn how she did what she did.

So I know what storytelling did for me, but what about others? Not just the people listing, but the people telling the stories themselves? What got them started? Why keep telling? Why tell at all? Over the next 3 months, I hope to bring you those answers and more. I’ll be posting about storytellers from the DC, MD, and VA area. Who knows. You might see a bit of you in these folks. If so, you’ll see that you too can tell your story on purpose.

Published by Nick Baskerville

After years of being an instructor in the military and the and the fire service, I realized I needed to improve my delivery. My students needed me to improve delivery. But how do I improve my delivery? Simple. I finally took a member of Toastmasters up on the invitation to come to a meeting. It wasn't long until I joined. Along the way of improving my skills at delivering a message, I came to understand that of all the ways to get a point across, telling stories is the best way to get it done. Around this time, another friend from Toastmasters told me about The Moth monthly story telling shows. What better way to test out my theories on storytelling. It's in my travels there to the shows that I found more and more shows, and classes, and events centered around storytelling. Despite how many people know about the storytelling world, not many people know about the storytelling world. So now, I'm out to tell the world about storytelling.

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