The Ancestral Storyteller: Recent Episodes
Linda Cousins-Newton
Storytelling adventure sharings and experiences of the Brooklyn griot (storyteller), writer, publisher, historical reenactor and digital artist, Linda Cousins-Newton.
The great ones are not always of the distant past buy oftentimes contemporary travelers and contributors to our life paths like the visionary force behind Brooklyn's Historic Weeksville Society, the late and most fabulous Joan Maynard.
The Ancestral Storyteller's rendition of Paramahansa Yogananda's story of a supremely rich king who found himself begging for a penny.
The story of a good-hearted wayfarer of Life who embraced an appealing, wounded snake as his new best buddy.
Storytelling memories of the Amen Corner singers in the griot's home church in Knoxville, Tennessee, as well as incorporating Amen corner "sangin' " in a storytelling musical on the life of the great liberator and Underground Railroad conductor, Nana Harriet Ross Tubman.
The Ancestral Storyteller relates the enchantment of a first snow in Brooklyn plus meeting Louisiana-born blues dynamo, Jesse Thomas, in the midst of the snow scene adventure.