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Eric Hurtt began telling stories in Eastern Washington/Idaho as part of storytelling duo called Tellers Two (1995-1998). From there, he told Klondike Gold Rush stories in Alaska (1998-200), and later conducted ghost walking tours, telling ghost stories in Old Town Sacramento (2005-2016). Today, he researches, crafts, and shares stories told found on this podcast.
Welcome to Telling Simple, a podcast where stories are retold simply, in a bare-bones style of storytelling. There are a lot of great stories from the past that have been misplaced or are rarely told anymore. Here you'll find those stories stripped down to the bare-bones of what's taking place to allow you to fill in the background.
Seasons 1 & 2 contain stories from California.
Telling SImple is a hobby podcast. Just like every story needs a teller, every story also needs a listener. Thank you for listening. If you know of any who likes a good story, your telling about this podcast is always greatly appreciated.
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Best quote from book: "To be a good storyteller is to be gloriously alive."
A storyteller's goal is to touch the heart so that "the head may understand."
My favorite story in her book: Wee Meg Barnileg.
Links to other information about Ruth Sawyer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Sawyer
Quote from James Stephen's The Crock of Gold: "I have learned . . . that the head does not hear anything until the heart has listened, and what the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow."
Final Thought
"This art of telling stories lies within the Storyteller,
To be searched for, Drawn out, Made to grow."
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April 5, 2020
Storyteller: Jackie Torrence
Book: Jackie Tales: The Magic of Creating Stories and the Art of Telling Them, 1998
According to Torrence, there is a method to learning a story.
1. Read the story aloud 5 times. Be sure to never memorize the story word for word.
2. When you read the story a 2nd time, read for the pictures it creates in your mind. These pictures are what you will share with your audience.
3. During the 3rd reading, this is where you "hem and tuck" or trip the story, changing words and cutting/ adding to the length.
4. During the 4th reading, you combine your pictures and your
"hem and tucks".
5. During the 5th reading,make sure
you didn't miss anything. You might see pictures or the storyline
differently.
Practice telling the story a few times using the pictures as your guide.
"Visulaizing your stories: You must see the scenes & your characters in your mind as you tell a story. Visualize the story as if you are living in it, not just talking about it. Believing in your story, and making things real. Characters are hard to believe if they are too perfect, kingdoms are unreal if they are paradises."
My Notes: First storytelling book I bought from a contemporary storyteller
- Revivalists pull stories from books. They revive stories. Traditionalists tell stories from their parents and grandparents and their culture.
- Remember, if a prop is too gimmicky, it will distract your audience and cause them not to listen to your story.
Her way of opening a story: "I've got to tell you this story."
Her way of ending a story: "And that is the end of that."
Final Thought
"My props are my hands and my face and my eyes and in the way I gesture and move my body. I want to leave everything to the . . . imagination." I want them to see me and then see the character and feel like the character."
She is best know for her
Jack Tales & Br'er Rabbit Tales
My Favorite Story of hers: Elvira & Henry
LInks to Other Information About
Jackie Torrence:
Jackie Torrence Shares Her Secrets For Storytelling
Jackie Torrence -- A Trickster Story
May 5, 2020
Storytelling, Coach: Doug Lipman
Book: Improving Your Storytelling
(This is purely my opinion, but this is a must have book for any storyteller. I want to share a few highlights. You really must read it for yourself. I was introduced to this storyteller in 1989 as a coach. Readers are fortunate he put his notes in a book.)
HOW TO TELL
STORIES
Simple Quick Tips From the Experts
- Storytelling shoud be organic when you are infront of a group. You should alway be ready to adapt to your audience with your story selection. Always have several stories prepared, just in case.
- Exercise: try telling your story with no words
- Humor in a story can be found by juxtapositioning "two contrasting ideas or feelings."
- The power of the pause: it allows the "storytelling time to imagine and react." Don't be afraid of it.
- There is a differnce between those who rehearse a story alone too much and those who tell a story informally many times. Key: try telling informally
- When telling a story, keep in mind there are 4 ways experiences are formed: visual, sound, imagery from feelings (happy/angry) and from a word or concept (hurtful day).
"There is no one right way to tell a story."
Links To Other Information about
Doug Lipman
What Storytelling Can Teach Us About Creating Connectionre
Shaping A New Story
FINAL THOUGHT
"When you tell a story, you always must be there, shaping the artistic moment. Even if you have told the story five hundred times before, you must still show up the five hundred and first time, balancing the needs of the story, your needs and the needs of the audience."
July 5, 2020
Storyteller, Coach: Sean Buvala
Blog: https://seantells.com/9-tips-for-storytelling-in-any-situation/
* Tell Stories You Like
* Practice & Know Your Story
* Remove Parts That Slow The Action
* Speak Clearly
* Pace The Story Appropriately
* Use A Microphone
* Remember Good Eye Contact
* Use Natural Gestures
* Avoid "The Moral Of Story Finishes"
"Storytelling takes place in the moment, cocreated between the storyteller & the listener. Each act of Stortelling is a unique experience."
My Notes: (First book I ever bought on Storytelling. Somehow I have held onto this book for over 35 years.)
- Sawyer talks about imagination-- using this gift -- "using words to see with and to make others see." I know that when I share a story, I have to see in my mind what's going on. If I can't see what's going on, then I wonder what are the listeners seeing in their minds. Sawyer went on to say: see your story first, have it come to life for you, then apply the words and add movements where appropriate.
- "Creative art is the power to be for the moment a flash of communication between God and man." -- not sure from where her quote came from, but I like it.
- Look for stories that move you personally.
March 5th, 2020
Storyteller: Ruth Sawyer
Book: The Way of the Storyteller, 1942.
According to Sawyer, there are 6 parts to the storytelling artform.
1. Personal Experience
2. Building of your background
3. Having an imagination, a creative one
4. Ability to evoke emotion in others
5. Sense of spiritual conviction
6. A gift for selecting good material.
Sawyer has a warning not to bring sophistication to storytelling
because storytelling is a folkart.
March 5th, 2020
Storyteller: Ruth Sawyer
Book: The Way of the Storyteller, 1942.
According to Sawyer, there are 6 parts to the storytelling artform.
1. Personal Experience
2. Building of your background
3. Having an imagination, a creative one
4. Ability to evoke emotion in others
5. Sense of spiritual conviction
6. A gift for selecting good material.
Sawyer has a warning not to bring sophistication to storytelling
because storytelling is a folkart.
Links To Other Information about
Sean Buvala
The Demon Cat
FINAL THOUGHT
"When you know your purpose, life is more meaningful and easier to navigate. You're more interesting to others. You are much clearer in what you are trying to accomplish."
Resource: http://www.storyteller.net
"Storytelling requires you to image the stories you tell. Telling stories well requires that you imagine well the important images, feelings, and actions of the story."
August 5, 2020
Organizer of the 1st National StoryTelling
Festival in Tennessee in 1973:
Jimmy Neil SmithO
* Pick a story you love and believe in
* Learn the story in a suitable way for you
* Adapt story to fit you, audience, situation
* Use your natural voice
* "Use sound effects naturally, cautiously"
* "Be brave enough to be silent"
* Use gestures naturally, simply
* Polish your story by telling it over & over
* Story should be right for the audience
* Expand your opportunities to learn more
about storytelling, workshops, festivals,
listening to other professional storytellers
"When you learn a story, you needn't worry
that the first time you tell the tale, it may only
be the 'bare-bones.' In time as the story is
told again and again, you will become more
comfortable with the telling and embellish
the tale, giving flesh to those bones."
"Storytelling comes from the heart, not the head, and nothing should keep us from the exhileration and sheer pleasure of telling a story."
FINAL THOUGHT
"The art of storytelling is a co-creative process,
requiring both the teller and the listener,working together, to weave the whole fabric
of the tale, the warp and the weft of it. While the teller tells the story, allowing it to unfold,
the listener creates an image of what's happening--conjuring up mind pictures--
and the story comes alive."
September 5, 2020
Storyteller: Ed Stivender
* Storytelling is babysitting/keep the
audience's attention
* Never censor parts of a Fairytale or Folktale
to make the story easier to listen too. If
there is gore, keep the gore.
* No such thing as just "Story". Use the
story or a story when talking about it.
* If the audience is comfortable, then the
listener can fully enjoy the story
* Storytelling is co-creative. Where the story
is really happening, is in the imagination
of the listener.
5 Rules For Successful Storytelling
Note: he finds using a harmonica a great tool to
entertain and distract the audience, while he
creates the story, working
on his lines, in his mind
"Though I can practice infront of a mirror or infront of friends, I need an audience -- and their responses -- to shape and mold my stories and strengthen my telling." (with the audience's help, his stories become richer).
Examples of His Stories
October 5, 2020
Moth Storyteller: Terence Mickey
7 Audience Engagement Tips
Storytelling is all about connecting with
Your audience.
* Connecting with yourself will help you
connect with your audience
* Having anxiety is your friend. Embrace
it. It is your friend.
* Once infront of the group, count 1, 2, 3.
It is a transition between anxiety & energy.
* Start with a "killer" 1st sentence & end with
a "killer" last sentence.
* If you forget a line, circle back to the last
thingyou said. Repeat it. And it will usually
reset you & the lines will come back to you.
* Make eye contact. If you can walk, walk
close to them. Talk to them. And Don't
Ever Turn Your Back On Them, Even To
Read A Line.
* Be yourself. e E
If you lose your thought, "you can acknowledge it and tell the audience, 'I've lost my way for a second."
They can all relate and will empathize and appreciate your honesty."
"Trust yourself to be yourself. Be charming. Be welcoming. Be human. Laugh and don't take yourself too seriously."
"You have to breath, connect with your body and give
yourself that beat to pause, find your place, stare the
audience in the eyes and then speak directly to them."
June 4, 2021
Folk Singer/Storyteller: Pete Seeger
General Notes For Storytelling
* Sometimes you have 30 minutes, sometimes only a few. A quick anecdote can capture the audiences attention as well as a long story
*Don't be afraid to take liberties with stories
*English is a crazy language. Sometimes we need to make up a word that doesn't exist to add flavor to the story
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Foolish Frog
PODCAST EPISODES
Episode #2
Hanted Road Story (near Coloma):
Half Faced Stranger
Podcast Description: Buried in the hills is a forgotten grave. Now, an angry ghost haunts an old stagecoach road, now paved over. The spirit steals, stands in the middle of the road, and likes to point, among other things.
Teller: Eric Hurtt
Guest Announcer: Elizabeth R.
Production Voice: Special Thanks to Julia H.
Produced by Squeaky Metal Stool Productions
Click on artwork for story
#Coloma, #Haunted, #Hauntedroad, #ghosts, #California, #stealing, #prospector, #stagecoach, #haunted, #accident, #missinggrave, #claim, #storytelling, #storyteller, #pointing, #lostmines
Episode #3
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Hanted Road Story (near Lake Tahoe):
The Naked What?
Podcast Description: At a bend in the road, lay a woman, missing her shirt, pants, and socks. And she was missing something else: a body. But when the police went to look for her, they found something else, they weren't expecting.
Teller: Eric Hurtt
Guest Announcer: Colleen M.
Production Voice: Special Thanks to Julia H.
Produced by Squeaky Metal Stool Productions
#LakeTahoe, #Haunted, #Hauntedroad, #ghosts, #California, #nakedwoman, #accident, #haunted, #missingbody, #darknight, #storytelling, #storyteller, #cliff
Episode #4
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Missing Gold Story (Camptonville):
A Flat Minor
Podcast Description: His partner, his cabin and hundreds of something, just up and disappeared. And what about his gold? This episode contains a story from California's past about lost gold on ridge above the old mining town of Camptonville.
Teller: Eric Hurtt
Telling Simple Guest Announcer: Ruth B.
Production Voice: Special thanks to Julia H.
Produced by: Squeaky Metal Stool Productions
#Camptonville, #California, #mining, #prospecting,
#lostgold, #lostmine, #illness, #logroad, #pumporgan, #digging, #gold, #storytelling, #storyteller, #corduroyroad
Episode #5
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Killer Love Story (Indian Gulch):
A Groom's Doom
Podcast Description: Love is given. Love is taken, sometimes by others. But the love that was given, that feeling, never goes away. This episode contains a love story from California's past, an old story that came out of Indian Gulch, many, many years ago.
Teller: Eric Hurtt
Telling Simple Guest Announcer: Amika W.
Production Voice: Special thanks to Julia H.
Produced by: Squeaky Metal Stool Productions
#love, #lovestory, #tragedy, #indiangulch, #california, #murder, #jealousy, #lovetriangle, #mystery, #storytelling, #storyteller, #marriage,#courtship #suitor, #1800s
Episode #6
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Hungry Bear Story (near Bishop):
All Pooped Out
Podcast Description: A snowshoer vs a bear wearing snowshoes. Staying alive is on the mind of one. Hunger is on the mind of the other. Who can walk-run or hop-run faster through deep snow?
This episode contains a famous, never heard of, chase story from California's past, an old story that took place outside of the town of Bishop, many, many years ago, originally reported by the Mammoth City Times back in the 1880's.
Teller: Eric Hurtt
Telling Simple Guest Announcer: Christine R.
Production Voice: Special thanks to Julia H.
Produced by: Squeaky Metal Stool Productions
#bear, #grizzly, #brownbear, #winter, #snowshowing, #bishop, #california, #running, #chasing, #storytelling, #Storyteller, #Mamoth, #ranch
Episode #7
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Tall Tale Story (Sierra Nevada Mountains)
Cross-Eyed Buck
Description: What do you call a fella who can hear trees growing, see around mountains, rip snakes out of the ground, and make a buck cross-eyed? This episode contains a taller than tall story from California's past. It is an old story that came out of the Sierra Nevada pack mule era, with special thanks to Mr. Harris, who took the time to share much of this tall tale you are about to hear.
Teller: Eric Hurtt
Telling Simple Guest Announcer: Cynthia Speakman
Production Voice: Special thanks to Julia H.
Produced by: Squeaky Metal Stool Productions
#storytelling, #california, #talltale, #familypodcast, #mules, #packmules, #humor, #snakes, #hunting, #sierranevadas, #sierramountains, #deerhunting,