Pam Holcomb - Appalachian Storyteller

Pam Thanks for all the editing and phone conversations and so forth to help things work good.  I appreciate you more and more.

 

Buck

 

Welcome to the Civil War Group I was telling a few of those tales last weekendI also have a new music piece which is also civil war still working on it some but its coming along

I put together a one man show of music and storytelling called From Here to Kingdom Come." I really loved going up the creek bed to visit folks in Kingdom Come. I'd be very interested in hearing your recordings about the place. David

Hello Pam, I see that you have been real active on this site. I hope you had a lot of good times, and storytelling over the holidays and into this new year. I do not know if we can get down to Natasha's this year or not. We always enjoy it a lot. We are not signing up to perform, but hope we can last minute get down there to watch and support. Maybe we will see you on stage there this yet?
Jonatha

Hi, Pam,
We just got back from a 7 day cruise + a few extra days basking in the warm Miami sunshine - I ate - exercised and slept - and rotated these three activities for 9 days. My arm is mobile once again and the old body was able to shake off the winter doldrums for a time. Wishing you well, Mike Lockett

What age group or grade for the Civil War stories? Clara Barton is a good subject for lower grades but plenty of material that can adapt to all ages. Lots on line, lots of books. Good women in the war making a difference angle. There were 100,000 stories at Gettysburg, I like General Lee's horse Traveller and look at the war from the animal viewpoint. I do several about boys in the war drummers and buglers and the boys who kept records at Andersonville prison. Depending where you are I like tieing it in locally how many went from here to serve, when where, any notables? All online info. Was war goods manufactured locally we found out 25,000 guns were made in a small section of our town -lived here 30 years and hadnt heard that! I have sevral family stories from family letters and diaries it is a lucky treasure in that! Anything in your family tree ? Have you heard of Jennie Wade a teen girl was the only civilian killed at Gettysburg. her home is a tourist stop there and they say if you put your finger in the bullet hole i nthe door you will marry in one year and they have many pictures to prove it. They also include the house on ghost tours as they say she still haunts it.

You commented that you liked my blogs so I just thought I would let you know I have added one since I joined the new animal stories group The blog is on Compassion and is on my pages. There is also a response to a discussion on the animal page you might enjoy. I cant imagine why no one thought of animal stories group earlier there are so many animal sotries for those of us who live with more animals than humans it is a natural topic . One of my favorites. Now a historic animal story that is perfection for me- I have a few working on more!

Hi, Pam - I hope to be able to get rid of the sling after one more week. Meanwhile - getting the flexibility and strength back in the old arm is rough. I hope I can get back into working order before too long.

I also hope that all is going well with you and the sales of your new album.
Mike

Hi Pam, Have you heard about the Saturday Series of workshops that are sponsored by VASA? The first one will be on Sat. Dec. 6 in Abingdon, VA at the Virginia Highlands Community College, 9:30 a.m. Two workshops will be presented, GROW with Kim Weitkamp on marketing and DIG IT with Paul Conco on developing the oral history. Lunch is included in the price of $75 for VASA members and will be followed by coaching, story labs, and story swaps. Contact me for more info if you're interested in coming. Mimi