Dates & Schedule
April 25 - 26th 2008
2008 Kansas Storytelling Festival
FRIDAY EVENTS- Registration 1:00 Memorial Hall
1:30 - 2:30 p.m. Opening Ceremony: Featuring Dino O’Dell & Mike
“Blue Hawk” Adams
Bringing stories of laughter & history - Memorial Hall
3:00 - 3:45 p.m.
50 years of Farming - Kenneth Lee & Nolan Sump
Downs Depot
The Feminist Manifesto - Deborah Greenblatt
Memorial Hall
3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
Take a Walk Down Memory Lane - Guided by Osborne
County Historian, Von Rothenberger
Meet at the Memorial Hall at 2:55 pm
4:00 - 4:45 p.m.
The Funny Storyteller Craig Larson
Downs Depot
There’s Something Funny About This - A Workshop***
Bil Lepp - Memorial Hall
Open House with Steve Richardson
Richardson Organs
5:00 - 6:30 p.m.
Supper with the Storytellers
Senior Center (additional admission)
7:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Tall Tale Contest - Cheer on your favorie as these
contestants vie for the shovel: Allen DeBey; Kenneth
Lee; Mike Nyhoff; & Jim Stuckey
8:20 - 9:00 p.m.
Olio of Stories and Songs
Featured storytellers bring us their best
Memorial Hall
SATURDAY EVENTS- Registration 8:00 a.m. Memorial Hall
8:00 - 9:30 a.m.
Breakfast with the Storytellers
Lighthouse Community Church
(additional admission)
10:00 - 10:45 a.m.
Charles Taggart - Scout: “Tales of the Trails”
Mike “Blue Hawk” Adams - Memorial Hall
James Whitcomb Riley, the Fiddling Children’s
Poet - Deborah Greenblatt - Senior Center
The Divine Bovine
Bil Lepp - Downs Depot
The Magic of Music
Dino O’Dell - Christian Church
11:00 - 11:45 a.m.
John Henry-Civil War Soldier: My Story-Drill,
Drill, & Drill Again
Mike “Blue Hawk” Adams - Memorial Hall
Tales to Lighten Your Spirit
Yarnspinners - Senior Center
Bumps in the Night, Monsters under the bed
and Other Not-So-Scary Stories
Dino O’Dell - Downs Depot
Stories for Young and Old
Tipton Youth - Christian Church
Noon - 2:00 p.m.
Food available at Memorial Hall, restaurants,
& Senior Center.
Music to lunch by at Memorial Hall
Kiddie Train Rides at the Library grounds
Quilt stories, Storyteller books and tapes at
Memorial Hall
Main Street shopping
2:00 - 2:45 p.m.
Mountain Man, Songs, Stories &
Wondrous Whoppers
Mike “Blue Hawk” Adams - Memorial
Hall
Tales of Avoca, as seen from The Old
Scholhouse
Deborah Greenblatt - Senior Center
Swimming in Peanut Butter and
other Tall Tales
Dino O’Dell - Downs Depot
Make Him Stop
Bil Lepp - Christian Church
3:00 - 3:45 p.m.
Master Storyteller’s Circle
Terry Koops & Sam Seymore
Memorial Hall
Fiddle Fables
Deborah Greenblatt - Senior Center
150 Years of Farming - Kenneth Lee
& Nolan Sump - Downs Depot
The Funny Storyteller
Craig Larson - Christian Church
4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Swappin’ Grounds
Mike Nyhoff, Master of Ceremonies
Memorial Hall
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Buffet Supper at Central Station
Sandwiches & pizza at Bob’s Inc.,
Myers & Strikers
7:00 p.m.
FESTIVAL FINALE- An Evening with Bil Lepp
Memorial Hall
Admission with Festival Button or $7.00
January 2009
Tall Tales Contest - Preliminary
Tall Tale tellers compete to see who will move on to the Kansas Stoytelling Fesitval in the spring.