The End of The Road

Season 3 – Episode 2

Strange Circumstances

December 9, 2022

This podcast series features handpicked stories from the 2022 Storytelling Festival in Kennicott-McCarthy. The Wrangell Mountains Center hosted 3 days of grassroots storytelling that summer, featuring local and visiting storytellers. In this series we explore some of the magic of that in-person event.

In this episode we hear a story about Amy’s trip to Hungary (above), where she reconnects with her past..and (literally) leaves a piece of herself behind.

Photo by Anna Hunko on Unsplash

The WMC 2022 storytelling festival was magical. The Old Hardware Store is our original storytelling venue, and this year we added an outdoor venue on McCarthy’s West Side, the Glacier View Campground, thanks to our partners Gina and Nik Merlino and McCarthy River Tours. For those of you who have yet to visit the Wrangell Mountains Center, the Old Hardware Store is a charming 100 year old building that is the main hub at our campus in historic downtown McCarthy. Both stories in this episode were told at the Old Hardware Store.

Emma Stimpson at the Old Hardware Store

In this Episode

  • Amy Holonics tells a story in tribute to her father and their shared family roots in Hungary, when life took her to the land of her ancestors where her father’s past was uncovered and an unfortunate twist of fate ends up having some unexpected happy consequences.

  • Emma Stimpson, trained in theatre, gives an energetic performance of her story about a strange encounter at a Popeye’s Fast-Food Drive-thru in Florida.

  • Jon Erdman: Producer, host, episode writer, and Wrangell Mountains Center Executive Director

  • Michelle McAfee: Host, episode writer, editor, audio engineer

 
 
 

Old Hardware Store, Summer 2022

 

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Music Attribution

Swamp Picker by Adam Wheeler

http://www.audiomicro.com / License

Sundance by Paul McLinden

https://www.neosounds.com/songs/15678 / License