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Celebrate your Story - at area libraries

Monday, October 17, 2011


Personal Historian and psychologist, Linda Kraus, presenting Celebrate Your Story at The Third Place Commons in honor of Lake Forest Park's 50th Anniversary Celebration.

In Celebrate Your Story, psychologist/gerontologist Linda Kraus, M.A., focuses on the importance of preserving personal history.

“Saving family stories is a meaningful and significant endeavor, one that leaves a legacy for future generations,” says Kraus, a 20-year resident of Lake Forest Park. During Celebrate Your Story, audience members will have the opportunity to think about a story from their life and share it.

Linda talks about the health benefits of telling stories, such as lowering blood pressure and heart rate, and the various ways in which personal histories can be preserved.

Enjoy looking at nostalgic items displayed around the room: clothing from the fifties, sixties & seventies, very old recipe books and sewing patterns, 1940-1970’s Life, Look and Saturday Evening Post magazines, a Howdy Doody record album, a 60’s pink telephone, etc.

This program is geared to multi-generational groups including adults in their forties, fifties and sixties who are interested in capturing the stories of their parents and grandparents while there is still time and to seniors.

Life is not that which one lived, but that which one remembers and how one remembers to tell it --Gabriel Garcia Marquez


After discussing the importance of preserving personal history, Linda looks on as audience member, Elia Smith animatedly shares some personal stories.


Bothell Library, October 22, 2011 2pm
Pre-registration is suggested. People can register on the library website, call 425-486-7811, or contact Paul Jensen, Library Services Manager, 

Shoreline Library, Thursday, October 27, 2011, 7:00 pm
Lake Hills Library, Tuesday, November 1, 2011, 7:00 pm
Richmond Beach Library, Saturday, November 12,2011, 2:00 pm



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Raven Dreaming - storyteller Gene Tagaban at Third Place Commons Saturday

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

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Mrs. Wigglesworth entertains with stories

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Mrs. Wigglesworth was born in September 2004 as a woman of mature years from times past who loves to tell stories to children.  

Aunt Amanda, aka Mrs. Wiggleworth, began her story-telling career in John Herold's kindergarten class at Meridian Park.


She was a hit, and now appears regularly at Meridian Park, Echo Lake, and Briarcrest, regaling kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade classes with stories of characters who triumph over great odds. Says Mrs. Wigglesworth,


The stories I love best are when the small character gets the best of the larger, stronger character. One of my favorite lines is "Big is good, but brains are better!"

Those not fortunate enough to be in the classrooms can hear her stories at Third Place Commons and Ravenna Books.

Mrs. Wigglesworth is very fond of hats.

Photos courtesy Mrs. Wigglesworth


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Storyteller Meg Lippert inspires Highland Terrace students to tell and write their own stories

Thursday, April 8, 2010

The Highland Terrace PTA and Library welcomed storyteller Meg Lippert to their school for three full days of assemblies and workshops. Meg is the author of:
  • Head, Body, Legs  
  • The Talking Vegetables 
  • Mrs. Chicken and the Hungry Crocodile 
  • Why Leopard Has Spots 
and several other books. A master teacher, Meg has traveled the world and has taught kindergarten through graduate school.

At a gathering of the Kindergarten, First, and Second grade students, Meg told stories and talked about her experiences writing and publishing books. Kid favorites were the stories, the "Jazzy Three Bears" song, and the little wooden man who danced to the folk song "Arkansas Traveler."

Students in grades 3-6 had a separate assembly with material for their age group. In a full hour classroom visit Meg taught them how to write their own stories.

According to teacher-librarian Frank Kleyn, "Every classroom was truly inspired by the writing project and many of them have spent time after Meg's visit polishing and publishing their stories. The students, staff, and Library of Highland Terrace are very appreciative of the PTA's support for guest authors/illustrators."

Photo by Frank Kleyn

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