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Storytelling is alive and well, primarily because of Barbara Freeman and Connie Regan-Blake ABC Good Morning America

Barbara and Connie Regan-Blake co-wrote, produced, and starred in Asheville’s longest running theatrical production. (1986-1992)

Once Upon a Time… Meet two women who are in one of the world’s oldest professions – storytelling. By Marie Bartlett It’s a summer night in Philadelphia, and some 20,000 people are seated on quilts or blankets before a large outdoor stage on which two women are standing. A hush falls over the crowd as…

Once upon a time, nearly 20 years ago, two cousins from the South got in a truck and drove all over the United States telling stories to audiences who had forgotten or never knew the age-old storytellers’ art of talking to the heart and leaving imprints on the soul. The Folktellers® Connie Regan-Blake and Barbara Freeman,…

RARELY does life give one an opportunity to disprove the truth of Thomas Wolfe’s tenet that you can’t go home again. But sometimes it does-and when it does, that experience can be memorable, even extraordinary. My return visit after ten years to interview the internationally-acclaimed FOLKTELLERS®, Barbara Freeman and Connie Regan-Blake of Asheville, North Carolina…

“…The storytellers’ art is an ancient one, passed from old tongue to young mind, from the fountainhead of culture and history… ” Once,” says Barbara Freeman, face all alight with sun and wonder, driving through the White Mountains of New Hampshire on a spring day in 1980, “long ago” – and so stories have always…

The Folktellers invite the audience to join them “Where the Wild Things Are” My first close encounter with Barbara Freeman was in 1973 when I visited the Chattanooga Public Library in Tennessee in search of a feature story for the Roadrunner’s Report, a library service department newsletter which I produced for J. B. Lippincott. Speaking…