History comes alive at Cracker Storytelling Festival
PHOTO BY JEFF ROSLOW
Students from Valleyview Elementary listen to Mark Koruschak tell about what it was like to live in Polk County in the 1870s. He said he worked for Jacob Summerlin and made $1 a day, "which was good money." This is his fourth year returning to the Cracker Storytelling Festival at Homeland Heritage Park.
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Lloyd Hamm, the father of Maggie, 8, and Claire, 13, flips the jump rope for them Friday at the Cracker Storytelling Festival. Their mother, Alexa, was in the English Cabin telling stories to festival-goers what it was like to live in Polk County in the 1870s. They live just outside the Homeland Heritage Park and volunteer at the festival every year.
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Students from Lewis Anna Elementary School watch Diana Vasquez, 10, pretend to mix butter Friday at the Cracker Storytelling Festival. The school was one of the 20 present at the festival Friday.
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emerald Jordan, 9, makes a bracelet at one of the vendor booths at the Cracker Storytelling Festival Thursday. The festival continues today at Homeland Heritage Park in Homeland.
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Pam Nease tells a tale Friday at the 24th annual Cracker Storytelling Festival to students from Berkley Elementary.
The 24th Annual Cracker Storytelling Festival runs from 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13 in Homeland Heritage Park, 578 Second St., Homeland.
State and local storytellers that will be on hand include Carrie Sue Ayvar, Pat Nease, Hank Mattson, Tamara Green, Katie Adams, Connie Trama, Linda Chancey, Kaye Byrnes, Kim Rivers and Nancy Crockford, Mitchell O’Rear, Melissa Causey, Mark Koruschak and Youthful Voices and students from Polk County.
