Category Archives: Storytelling

I: Uncle Itch (WR)

Posted on April 11, 2016 by hdh

Uncle Itch I was invited by a school district to do a storytelling performance with the theme being family history/memories. At first, I was going to decline the opportunity, since I didn’t have any stories about either. But I changed my … Continue reading →

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A New Kind of Audience

Posted on January 26, 2016 by hdh

I’ve written in the past about audiences and who educates them how to respond to performers and performances (see http://www.hdhstory.net/Storyblog/?p=64). In that piece of writing I referred to different kinds of performances and audiences and their attentiveness and interactions to performers. … Continue reading →

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Let me show, don’t tell me

Posted on July 6, 2015 by hdh

During high school when I studied history, I never got further than World War I, if at all. I certainly do not remember about anything prior to 1900 that I was taught. Now consider today almost 50 years later and … Continue reading →

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Growing up and finding stories

Posted on March 29, 2013 by hdh

I grew up in New York City in the Bronx. We lived in a section of the Bronx called Riverdale. Now growing up I was always encouraged to say that I was from the Bronx not Riverdale. My sisters and … Continue reading →

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a tale of audiences

Posted on January 28, 2013 by hdh

As a storyteller I get to experience a number of different types of audiences from very young children to adults. As such, I get to see many different types of reactions and behaviors attached to those different audiences. Spending time … Continue reading →

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From farmer to hunter

Posted on December 13, 2011 by hdh

I spent 33 years of my life as an educator on Long Island. Most of those years were spent in the same school district. During my tenure as an educator I would begin each year with an unknown group of … Continue reading →

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Unfinished story

Posted on December 4, 2010 by hdh

You’ve heard of Schubert’s “Unfinished Symphony”? Consider this my “Unfinished Story”. What I’ve written is exactly what was going around in my head one night. It was pleading with me to be written down. So I have done that. I’m … Continue reading →

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A telling event

Posted on November 6, 2010 by hdh

I just completed a Halloween storytelling gig. It was a marathon performance. Four – 45 minute shows in one day. Knowing that you are going to be telling for 3 hours you really need to prepare not only the material, … Continue reading →

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Give credit

Posted on August 6, 2010 by hdh

I recently read an article in the New York Times about plagiarism and how students nowadays are becoming more and more clueless as to what constitutes infringement of other people’s intellectual property.  If it is posted on the Internet, it … Continue reading →

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in the beginning…

Posted on July 14, 2010 by hdh

I started teaching in 1973. For my birthday in 1974 a friend of mine gave me a guitar. I knew some basic chords that I had learned when I was a teenager and this new guitar inspired me to sing … Continue reading →

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