Marjorie H. Bennett Dr.

My given name is Marjorie but I have been performing under Maggie my ballads with Irish harp and storytelling all my life on radio, tv, performances, and recordings. You can look on Seattle Storytellers'site list of tellers for more about that.I just been told that my WINDY STORIES has been selected to be recorded for libraries nationally books for the blind. I am a folklorists and became fascinated years ago by Dell Ringer a storyteller I met when I was teaching in North Bend . I was looking for logger tales but he enchanted me with his stories about pioneer life along the Salmon River . On a whim I went there to get photos of the sites in his tales and discovered more gifted racounteurs. Ken Clark says"This book has a place in every public library." Storyteller-author Margaret Read Mac Donald says" anyone looking for a good read will enjoy it." Louie Attebery says" Anyone who has backpacked or floated the Salmon will enjoy the humor.Parts are really funny. This is a signicant contribution to research into the processes and production of oral narratives." Just for fun here is a sample mini-story," THE OTTOS told by Alice Mahurin. "The Ottos they lived on the road to Bows and Joseph. Old Otto was crossing the White Bird bridge with herd of sheep. It went down Somebody asked him --what in the world to do about the White Bird bridge. He said "I done my part- we got it down." There are wonderful serious stories as well about Chief Joseph, tragic deaths , and of course load of pranks played on locale character folks like the Beringhoff Brothers, and the Jewitts. It truly is a wonderful slice of Northwest history told in the exact words of pioneers.