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The “Telling Mountain Stories” folk life series will continue at Western Carolina University on Tuesday, March 13, with a presentation by Cherokee storyteller Tom Hill.
The program will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the Mountain Heritage Center auditorium.
Hill was raised in a family that moved often to accommodate his father’s career in the U.S. Navy, but each summer he spent time in Cherokee with his grandmother, Elizabeth Hornbuckle, and learned from her the traditional Cherokee stories. Hill began his storytelling career while leading an Outward Bound program in Pisgah Forest, and currently he integrates American Indian legends and his personal experiences into his work with adventure-based youth programs and children’s groups.
The Mountain Heritage Center is joining with Philip Coyle of WCU’s ethnography laboratory; Tom Hatley, Sequoyah Distinguished Professor in Cherokee Studies; and WCU’s Office of the Provost in presenting the “Telling Mountain Stories” series. The March 13 program was organized by Janette Irene Moser, visiting instructor in WCU’s department of anthropology and sociology.
The Mountain Heritage Center is located on the ground floor of WCU’s H.F. Robinson Administration Building. For more information, call (828) 227-7129 or visit www.wcu.edu/mhc on the Web.