Storytelling

Tips from Twilight Walking Tour River Lark (Mary Elizabeth Couling):

Winter is never too cold when you can tell stories with the friends of your heart, while the bear sleeps.
"A good story teller is a person who has a good memory and hope other people haven't." (Ivan S. Cobb)
The best way to improve story telling skills is to tell a story.
I am excited to tell this tale! (is a message you have to tell yourself)
Story telling is an art.
Involve your audience.
Visual aids are good.
Hands on is even better.
A small gift is nice.
Let guests use their voices.
Dress the part.
Go with the flow.  (expect interruptions)  Mary ready a poem she wrote about all the interruptions that occur during their Twilight Walking Tour presentations.
Slow down, enjoy, any one who comes to hear a story is already on your side.

During the presentation Mary Couling and three other story tellers provided very interesting stories associated with the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.  The stories were colorful and interesting. We had to compete with trying to be louder than the other side when we sang along with Mary and Jim, her husband.  The presentation was started with the audience saying tongue twisters.  That was fun.  Mary and the other story tellers were entertaining.  Mary organizes story telling events around the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.  Twilight Walking Tours in which Mary and her husband are the proprieters, provide a ghost tour in Sault Ste. Marie and they provide tours in St. Ignace, MI three nights a week during the summer months, on Tuesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays.  I have attended several of these tours and recommend them to others, very entertaining.