Past: Present: Future:

Story telling by Tellem Tall

That's as true as it gets

Who is TellemTall?
PAST ************************************************* I started telling tales professionally back in New Jersey. I think it was 1953 or 54. I got a break with a paying gig every Wednesday 8:30 PM at a local club. Unfortunately, I had to quit after the first show, because Mom would not let me stay up that late; it started after my bedtime. Probably for the best. How often can you tell the story about finding strange smelling tootsie rolls in the sand box? I quit the biz for a few years until I gained control over a captive audience and did 5 shows a day for the next 33 years(now it is 6 shows for the same pay for year 35). But who's countig? More soon as my biographers sends me the next installment of my life.
PRESENT ***************************************** Florida Folk Festival, White Springs, FL Main stage for stories all three days may 2009 . . . . Florida Folk Festival, White Springs, FL Main stage for stories all three days May 2008 St. John’s River Rally; Palaka, FL Story Telling Stage 2006 & 2008 Orange County Science Department Chair Meeting Sept 2008 Florida Folk Festival, White Springs, FL Main stage for stories all three days May 2006 Nov. 2007 Florida Folk Festival, White Springs, FL Open Mike, Story-Telling Cafe May, 1999, 2000, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05 Barberville Festival, Barberville, FL Story Telling Stage November, 2002, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07 San Antonio, Texas International Reading Association's 50th Annual Convention Marriott Rivercenter, Grand Ballroom B/C Conferees' Open Mike May 3, 2005 Open Mike, Will McLean Festival, Dade City, FL March, 2001, 02, 03, 04, 05 Blue Ridge Parkway, Peaks of Otter, Virginia Camp Ground June, 2004 Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tremont Institute, Tremont, TN Educational Program storie swap July 23, 2004 Patrick Smith Days Festival, Holopaw, FL November 13, 2004 Merritt Island Wildlife Refuge, Merritt Island, FL Birding Festival April, 2003 Maitland Middle School, Maitland, FL, Rockets Awards Assembly May 5, 2001 Open Mike, Om Club, Tallahassee, FL July 2, 2001 July 13, 2000 Barnes and Noble in Melbourne, FL Spring, 1999 Maitland Middle School, Maitland, FL, Teacher Training In-Service Florida Folk Festival, White Springs, FL Florida Folk Festival, White Springs, FL	The Scientific Method Gone Astray
FUTURE ***************************************************** The year 2025 and sales of my book of stories is holding at the same rate it has been for the past few years. Yes, Mom is still buying one each year to give as a present. I was going out to Wekiva to tell the gator story to a group of 5th graders and my electric chair got stuck in the good old Florida sugar sand. I ran down the battery trying to get out and had to wait until morning for help. It was a nice night; I gave a few pints of blood to the mosquitoes until I got a fire going with the small bundle of lighter pine Tim gave me at a Project WILD work shop in mid nineties. I knew if I carried it long enough it would come in handy. It reminded me of the time Erik and I were scouting a trail in Ocala National Forest for a backpacking trip when we drove that big Doge Ram in a stream and sank up to the carburetor, that was an interesting adventure as we watched the sun sinking lower then us while we sat on the roof . . . .