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She is a regular performer at the National Storytelling Festival. She was selected as a "Listener's Choice" at the 30th Anniversary National Storytelling Festival and a Storyteller-In-Residence at the International Storytelling Center. She was the first recipient of the John Henry Faulk Award from the Tejas Storytelling Association.
The John Henry Faulk Award, Tejas Storytelling Association, is presented annually in Denton, Texas, to the individual who has made a significant contribution to the art of storytelling in the Southwest.
Fran grew up in New York City but spent much of her childhood in Lancaster, Ohio, to which she attributes her Midwestern rather than New York accent. [2]: 170 She began storytelling while caring for her four younger siblings; her mother was concerned that their imaginations would be stunted by growing up with television.
Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services (TEJAS) is a non-profit organization based in eastern Houston. It was established in 1995, and is dedicated to protecting the environment through policy, community awareness, legal proceedings, and education.
History Storytellers is returning to Wyndridge for an evening to explore, celebrate and promote York County history at 7 p.m. Dec. 7.
Join the Austin American-Statesman and the Storytellers Project in 2022 for a series true, personal stories told by the people who live and work here.
Staged in Jonesborough, the Festival ignited a revival, a new appreciation, of storytelling that has spread across America and the world. Two years after the first Festival, Smith founded the National Association for the Preservation and Perpetuation, [4] the organization that would become the International Storytelling Center. [5]
Teyas were a Native American people living near what is now Lubbock, Texas, who first made contact with Europeans during the 1541 Francisco Vásquez de Coronado expedition. . The tribal affiliation and language of the Teyas is unknown, although many scholars believe they spoke a Caddoan language and were related to the Wichita tribe, encountered by Coronado in Quivi