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Show LIFE&STYLE m rc] DailySHerald SUNDAY, AUGUST 21, 2005 UFE & STYLE EDITOR | Doug Fox - 344-2546 - dfox@heraldextra.com Old tales, NOM lllee Daily Heraldfile photo TimpanogosStorytelling Festival revives its magicin a newlocation Cody Clark DAILY HERALD “Whenpeople find out where we're from they just start throwing us their cards,” said Karen Acerson, acting president of the fter 15 years of yarns,tales, parables, Timpanogos festival's board. Andof the 10 nationally knowntellers featured at this Sagas, epics and an- ecdotes — as well as, morethan likely, the ‘ telling Festival is moving closer to its mountainous namesake. Almost up intoits foothills. The 2005festival, the 16th convening of the three-day storytelling showcase,will be held at ties for the festival’s increasing nogos festival has grownsteadily, year by year. Founder Karen Ashton,wife of WordPerfect co- visioned the festival as a means to fund construction ofa children’s wingat thelibrary and hosted third time,said thatit's the alpine splendorandfriendly atmosphere that keeps her coming back. creator Alan Ashton,initially en: thefirst tellers and patrons at her family’s Orem residence. and open and receptive,” Alston said. The other returnees are Milbre Burch, DougElliot, Syd Lieber- figure from the first Timpanogos relocated to the grounds around val's library liaison, Janet Low, out popular annual event. ae ask a storyteller. Festival janizers frequently recruit new es by visiting the National Surjteling Festival in Jonesborough, Tenn. Provo Canyon. Orem City officials Nancy Donoval, Dolores Hydock facilitated that move,saidthe festi- taking a crack at festival audi- of a desire to keep the festival in ences forthe first time. And that’s just the big shots. Fivelocal tellers from Utah and Arizona will also perform, and 32; youthtellers recruited from Utah schools arelimbering uptheir vochords as well. 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Info: www.timpfest.org or 229-7436 the Olmsted hydroelectric plant, a and Tom Weakley will each be no better place to be than at the When: Thursday through Saturday, 12), $100 for a family of 6 or fewer ($20 per state historical site at the mouth of numberof patrons, but the basic program hasn't changed.If you Shell Outdoor Theatre, 699 S. State St. in Orem additional family member over six); group rates, daytime- or evening-onlytickets, andstorytelling workshop tickets also available TheAshton home sufficed until 1996, whenthe festival was man,John McCutcheon,Ed Stiv# ender and Dovie Thompson,while love a good story, then there’s Where:Mt. Timpanogos Park, U.S. 189 in Provo Canyon; some events held at Orem Public Library, 58 N. State St. in Orem, and SCERA Cost: Full event tickets are $40 for adults (age 13 and older), $35 for senior citizens (age 65 and older), $25 for children (ages 3 through Festival publicist Radene Hatfield said the total attendance Storytelling Festival, held in 1990, “The people are just very warm was about 800. Festival.” The new setting means improved access andbetterfacili- 2005 TimpanogosStorytelling Festival by the excellence of previous in- teractions. Philadelphia resident Charlotte Blake Alston, well into her second decadeof professional storytelling and returning to Oremfor the Orem’s recently completed Mt. Timpanogos Park in Provo Canyon — sign at the park entrance proudly proclaims it the “Home of the Timpanogos Storytelling If you go Begun as a fund-raiser for Orem Public Library, the Timpa- year’sfestival, seven are past participants lured back to Orem occasional sore throat or sprained tongue — the Timpanogos Story- You've come along way, baby Orem. By that time, she said, “they liked the idea of the festival as an identity piece for the city.” Low, a managerat Orem Public Library andoneof a large num- See STORYTELLING, C2 bce The Timpanogos Storytelling Festival is not a renaissancefair. But that doesn’t mean that you aren't going to see any menin tights if you go. Salt Lakeresidents Dave and Carol Sharp are two of the 2005 festival's regional tellers, participants specially chosen because oftheir regional roots. See TALES, C2 Running barefoot Musicians redhot at blues concert pebats Seven TTLE TIMES LoganMolyneux THE DAILY HERALD SEATTLE — Barefoot Jon, now 62,ran his first Seattle Marathonsans shoes in 1990. The heat approached 97 degrees, and he figured 26 miles would go by cooler The only things hotter than the sun throughthin air at 6,500 feet Nonny night werethe guitar licks. imagined Joe Bonamassa’s if he unsheathed his feet. But he was bothtentative and smart enoughto stashthree pairs of shoes along the route — just in case. pete org nes atone as iepkpedso Hedidn't need them. eyee yaa Dek Aeron ee ae And the second performer, Kenny NE, Oe ee i ee fireworks made it easier to forget being uncomf perched on a bumpy slope. That aul ths bigsare bor patt cf ay cater eater ex: See BLUES, C5 “Tt was a revelation to me,” he says. “I tried it again about eight years later and cametorealize there are other reasons to go barefoot than heat.” Barefoot Jon, whose last nameis Gissberg, has nothing against shoes (“I don't live a no-shoes lifestyle”), GREG GILBERT/Seattle Times Jon Gissberg, left, and Billy Gard are barefoot runners in Seattle. but is part of a small cadre of runners who extol the See BAREFOOT, C5 pan |