Get to Know Some of the Storytelling Community's Living Treasures
 

Envisioned by Elizabeth Ellis, the Storytellers’ Legacy Project is a community-based collection of material archives and original recorded oral history interviews that documents and shares professional storytellers' craft & knowledge. The Project fosters dialogue and education with community-building resources and events. The SLP is run by a dedicated team of storytelling community members and is sponsored by the Storytelling Resource Place.
 

We are Community-Based. Meet the Community Review Board and other leaders who help run the project!
 

We want you to have the opportunity to learn about the art and craft of storytelling from some of our community's greatest storytellers themselves, and from the greatest possible collection of resources. Our parent organization, the Storytelling Resource Place, houses not only our material collections for the Project, but also 1,828-sq. feet of rare and first edition prints from the 398.2 section of the library (remember that?), along with storytelling magaines, tapes, costumes, and cultural artifacts, in an historic 1860 building that was home to the first national organization of storytellers, the National Association for the Preservation and Perpetuation of Storytelling (NAPPS,  1975). Surrounded by resources, you have space to study and prepare your stories here, with a cup of tea.

 

Come visit us at the Storytelling Resource Place in Jonesborough, TN, or learn more here.