Storyteller Lois Sprengnether Keel Michigan storyteller, Lois Sprengnether Keel, (LoiS) has a wide variety of storytelling programs or can create one just for you. She tells stories from the Great Lakes or your choice of country or continent (for example Australia or Africa), spooky stories, Native American tales (especially Anishinabe - also called Chippewa or Ojibwe), tall tales, specific characters or animals (such as Paul Bunyan, the Hodja, Rabbit, Turtle & others), with or without puppets, & may use American Sign Language.
	Lois Sprengnether Keel Michigan storyteller

The Liberetta Lerich Green program can be adapted to cover several aspects of Michigan history: the Underground Railroad; the Civil War, both from the homefront in Michigan and looking out to her soldier brothers; Michigan of 100 years ago; music of abolition, Civil War, and 100 years ago; and even pioneer life as Liberetta recounts her parents adjustment to the Michigan frontier of 1835.

LoiS brings Liberetta Lerich Green to the 21st century in words from Liberetta's oral history, newspaper accounts, letters, and other research tied together with the abolition song sung at the planting of the "Beacon Tree" that marked the Lerich family Underground Railroad station in Shelby Township, Michigan. Her brothers, Will and Isaac, served in the Civil War. Letters by and about them are interwoven with that same song now transformed to "Lincoln and Liberty." Liberetta is moved exactly 100 years into the present which is why she is currently in deep mourning over the loss of her husband, Addison Green, a Macomb county farmer.

 

A certified Word Weaving instructor, LoiS loves to spread the joy of storytelling & its many uses. She has been storytelling since 1970.

 

Some of the workshops that LoiS has already offered include: the Basics of Storytelling; Storytelling Thematically for Teachers; Storytelling with Puppets; Interactive Storytelling; Resources for Storytelling; & Story Starters for Your OWN Stories.

 

LoiS is comfortable with groups of all ages and sizes, although she prefers a sound system with groups over 75 or when telling outdoors or in noisy environments.

 

Contact Lois at LoiS-sez (at) LoiS-sez.com

 

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