Hello my friends,
Thank you to all involved in the wonderful Tenth Annual Missouri Liars Contest. The Daniel Boone Regional Library, under Sarah Howard’s guidance, hosted a marvelous event. As you may know, there was a workshop with Larry Brown before the contest, but the surprise was the library’s gift to the patrons. It treated everyone to coffee, tea and sweets at the opening of the day. Sarah also had souvenirs from the library for all who came. The library welcomed us with open arms, and it felt so good. We have good friends in Columbia, MO.
Thirty-five people attended the workshop and sixty-five people attended the contest. There were nine spoken contestants, each with a story I thought for sure was the winner.
The winners were Christine Henderson from Basehor, KS with the story “Ratness” in first place. Larry Brown from Columbia, MO took second place with “Chickens Underground.” Jeff Hannah from Cape Girardeau, MO came in third with “El Diablo.”
The judges had a tough job because all the stories were winners. Many thanks to all the judges, both those for the spoken contest and those for the written contest.
There were eight entries for the written contest. The winners were Ken Wolfe and Perrin Stifel, both from St. Louis, who tied for first place. Ken’s story was “The Leap,” and Perrin’s story was “Great Salt Truck Massacre.” Second place went to Chester Weems from Oklahoma with the story “I’ll Fly Away” and third place was taken by Amy Prater with “One Brave Little Girl.”
The entire day went well thanks to the careful planning of board members, Jackie Wright and Linda Kuntz.
Thank you, thank you, thank you to all of you who listened to the tales, who told the tales, who wrote the tales, who judged the tales and who allowed the tales to be told forever to be remembered.
It was a day to remember and I was thrilled to emcee.
Keep telling your stories,
Joyce Slater
President, MO-TELL
“Storytelling is our obligation to the next generation.”
― Isabel Allende
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