It happens the weekend of May 4^th, stories will be bursting out all over Mt. Vernon!  Yes, it is that time again when members of the Ohio storytelling group, OOPS! will be in town for their annual conference.

Friday many area school children will be treated to live storytellers from all over Ohio, in concert.  Tellers Joyce Geary, Stephen Hollen, Suzanna “Granny Sue” Holstein, Julie McGhee, Cristie Merce, Melanie…

O.O.P.S! willhost the 2012 Ohio Storytelling Conference the first weekend in May.  It is still not too late to make a reservation, contact me at seanachiemelanie@sbcglobal.net or call 614-481-9674.  We have such a wonderful line-up of presenters - with featured teller Elizabeth Ellis leading the list.  Her dulcet tones make you just want to become a sponge and soak up all her pearls of wisdom.  If you've not attended an O.O.P.S! conference,…

Tonight our President did her speech on body language and her speech title we "Survivors" She did a great narrative on her grandparents and their meeting during the war and surviving as Polish Jews. Then surviving a return home only to find they were still in danger- they immigrated to Israel and how they impacted her life. Her story shared how her grandmother's stroke left her body paralyzed but her mind active and her grandfather's alzheimer's left his body strong and his mind paralyzed -…

stepped in tonight to review the pending members!!!! We had 44 and we are now at 11. I sent messages for dues to two and deleted 33 for spam!  same 4 names and it is quite a story to tell .......