WSIU Radio hosted a recording booth at the inaugural Cape Girardeau Storytelling Festival in April 2008. More than a dozen people tried their hand at storytelling, in a range of styles from retelling oral histories to reading from a book.
Gary Kuntz restates that "it wasn't his fault" while pleading to get the keys to the car when he was just learning to drive.
Hope Botwinski explains the unwritten "Family Rules" that she neglects to tell her future husband.
Mary Garrett recalls growing up with animals and raising them for both food as well as companionship
Brenda Appleby tells a story about returning to same places as a near adult as she enjoyed as a child during a cross-country trip with her sister.