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Adam Booth

Fiddlin’ Bobby Byrd, Mountain Musician

May 1, 2024 Tagged With: Adam Booth, Byrd Center, In Print May 2024, Speak Stories

Adam Booth tells a story

Story Artist Adam Booth created a compelling original tale based on the life of Robert Byrd, the former US Senator from West Virginia. Read the Full Story >>

New Story Takes Flight at Theater Festival

July 1, 2023 Tagged With: Adam Booth, Contemporary American Theater Festival, In Print July 2023, Speak Stories

“The Heron’s Journey” is coming to Shepherdstown! You won’t want to miss world-renowned story artist Adam Booth’s original program brought to you by Speak Story Series, in partnership with the Contemporary American Theater Festival. “The Heron’s Journey” uses spoken storytelling, quilting, and paper sculpture to tell an allegory filled with magic, challenges to opposition, and transformation. Meet the title character in various forms of self-discovery and take part in giving the story wings. Read the Full Story >>

Talking Across Time & Space

January 4, 2021 Tagged With: Adam Booth, COVID-19, online, Shepherd University, storytelling

Adam Booth

Adam Booth credits a course he took with Rachael Meads in the Appalachian Studies department at Shepherd University for starting him on the path to becoming a professional storyteller, a passion he has pursued as a career for the past fifteen years.  Read the Full Story >>

Time To Share A Story

January 1, 2021 Tagged With: Adam Booth, editor's note, pink christmas tree, Speak Stories, Stubblefield Institute

A pink, plastic christmas tree sits on a snowy stoop in Shepherdstown.

When I interviewed professional storyteller Adam Booth for the Speak Stories article in this month’s issue, one of the topics we touched on was the role of storytelling in the community and his experiences traveling the country to speak. He noted how during his visits, people often seek him out asking, “do you have time to hear a story”? Read the Full Story >>

Program Matches Students with Shepherdstown Seniors for Oral History Project

November 18, 2019 Tagged With: active adults, Adam Booth, Shepherdstown Area Independent Living, storytelling

Shepherdstown SAIL

The Shepherdstown Area Independent Living organization, or SAIL as it is more commonly known, has partnered with Shepherd University for a year-long intergenerational project entitled “Hear This! Sharing Stories Across Generations.” Read the Full Story >>

Love a good story? You’re in luck.

October 3, 2017 Tagged With: Adam Booth, Shepherd University, Shepherdstown Community Club, Shepherdstown Speak Story Series, storytelling, West Virginia Liars’ Contest

A words-artist and musician by profession, Booth is the founder of the Speak Story Series, a community-based and organized concert series that brings recognized storytellers from across the world to listeners in Shepherdstown (WV). The series presents stories about diverse cultures and beliefs, helping people, as Booth describes, “bond over deep emotional experiences.” Read the Full Story >>

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