General Meeting Feb. 16, 2011

     On Feb. 16, we met for our first general meeting of 2011 at the Bristol Public Library. Nominations from the floor for new officers were provided, a vote was taken, and the new Director for BCS is Pat Musselman.

     Becky Vickers was elected as Treasurer and Jackie Summers as Secretary. 

     Above is Becky Vickers. Unfortunately, we have no picture of Jackie Summers in our file.

Mimi Rockwell will continue with advertising  

and Carl Jenkins will take over the job of Public Relations and Marketing

and Sam Samuel will be his Assistant

     In addition, Glen Williams and Sarah Williams will become the new webmasters for the BCS website. 

This is Glen; no picture available for Sarah.

     The rest of the meeting was devoted to setting dates and themes for upcoming programs as well as encouraging attendance at nearby workshops and preparing for advancing in their storytelling techniques.

     An interesting addition to our meeting was the visit by the library security guard who is a tall tale teller. He told us a quick tale and we all encouraged him to join our group.  

     We want to express our great appreciation and best wishes to our outgoing officers, G. Lee Hearl as Director and Joyce Moore as Secretary. You hung in with the group and kept it going in the right direction. We can't thank you enough.

          G.Lee Hearl                                                                   Joyce Moore

Story Tellabration 2009

Pictured above from left are Glen Williams, Mimi Rockwell, David Claunch, Becky Vickers, Paul Conco, and G.Lee Hearl.


BCS had a good Tellabration last night at the community college in Abingdon. There was a small audience but they had big hearts and brought canned goods for the Second Harvest Food Pantry.


David Claunch started the stories off with a tale about his trip to Bhutan, a country near India. He told about amusing the monks with a red clown nose, then bubbles which they named "prayer bubbles" since they had a similarity, floating through the air, to their prayer flags. 


Becky Vickers went next with her story about a pet dog and cat she had when she was a child. The cat tormented the dog until Becky bought a new chain for the dog which gave him an advantage and he finally got back at the cat.


Paul Conco was the third teller and shared a lot of research he had done while writing his story about the 1918 flu pandemic. It was a sad, scary story that could happen again with the current flu epidemic.


Mimi Rockwell told the fourth story about the first client she had when she was doing an internship for her therapist degree. His actions were very mysterious and ghostly,


Glen Williams who is new to BCS and has a degree in Theatre told of his student days and ghostly happenings also. It ended with humor so we lived up to the old adage, "Always leave them laughing."


The next time we tell will be at Old Christmas on Jan. 6 after the New Year.