In 2024, we're 30 years old!
Come celebrate with us!
The celebration will be ongoing for the rest of the year. Come and visit with us, hear some of our alumni tellers, and enjoy spending an evening with one of the oldest storytelling guilds - and the most active - in the Unites States.
Article from Johnson City Press dated March 25, 2024
Gallery
1st Storytelling Event June 1994
1998 Members
Tellabration 2023
Jonesborough Novelty Band Tellabration 2023
Hannah Harvey - Featured Teller Tellabration 2023
Graveyard Tales 2023
JSG Porch Telling at Storytelling Resource Center
Dr. Pam Miller at the ISC
Judy "Butterfly" Farlow with the Girl Scout Storytelling Class, 2023
Community Outreach Programs 2023
Balladeer 2024
Executive Board as of January 1, 2024
President: Sherrie Peters
Vice President: Sam Smith
Treasurer: Betty J. Sotherland
Corresponding Secretary: Evelyn Edwards
Recording Secretary: David Webb
Ex-Officio Member: Pam Miller
Volunteer/Outreach Coordinator: Tammy Dycus
Webmaster: Ellender Rose Webster
History
The Jonesborough Storytellers Guild has celebrated over 30 years of sharing live storytelling in downtown Jonesborough on Tuesday night.
Our Guild is the longest running Storytelling Guild in the United States as well the only Guild in the Nation that offers a weekly public performance venue. Prior to the creation of our guild, the only live Storytelling was once a year at the National Storytelling Festival.
There were seven creative founding members in June 1994:
David Joe Miller
G Lee Hearl
Carole Ann Huebner
Jack Huebner
Leon Overbay
Bob Phillips
Linda Poland
These founding members saw the need and made a commitment to bring live Storytelling to our town. Since then our guild has grown and been faithful to their cause bringing first class entertainment to the public each Tuesday Night. Come celebrate with us with Stories n' More!