Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: story

Mom called one evening in 1992 and invited me to take her to a festival at Scotts Mill County Park in Scotts, Michigan. She'd joined a storytelling group at the Kalamazoo Library and wanted to see some of the group in action. So we went, and enjoyed. There were young folks and old folks and in-between folks. Some were quite good; others needed to work on technique. This guy was being Davy Crockett, declaiming his exploits on the wild frontier. Best in show.

One of my very favorite photographs. Storytelling Festival, Scotts Mill County Park, Scotts, Michigan; July 1992.

July 1992: Mom called. Said that there was going to be a story telling festival at Scotts Mill, and that I should invite her to go with me. I did, and we did.

Storytelling Festival, Scotts Mill County Park, Scotts, Michigan; July 1992. This is one of my most popular pix, doubtless because of the suggestive title. Sorry (not really) to disappoint those of you looking for something else.

Storytelling Festival, Scotts Mill County Park, Scotts, Michigan; July 1992.

A true, but preposterous, tale: A neighbor family kept a pet Armadillo in a shed behind their house. One day it escaped, which set their kids aflutter. They knocked on the neighborhood's doors and looked high and low for the slipped-off critter. I hadn't seen the beasty, but he'd destroyed the Japanese Iris surrounding my wellhead--evidently the rootstock was acceptable food. But he'd then left the yard, and was nowhere to be found. The next day another neighbor reported that the pet was asleep in his gas-fired grill. 'Twas a bit of a shock.... I tried to recover the Iris bed with the scraps he'd left, but it didn't work out. So I ripped everything up and planted these Daylilies.