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News Flash!
Audio-Recording Wins Second Award!
Lou Gehrig: The Story of a Great Man received an award from
NAPPA
To date all five recordings and both books featuring Carol
Birch have garnered multiple awards. Visit the store
to read reviews and to order materials.
Also, our trip to Ireland is planned for July 28 - August
6, 2005. read more
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"With her wry and wise ways, Carol is like the spirited sister
we all long for. She's confiding and compassionate as she tells
stories of mythic relatives whose lives are marked by challenges
to their courage, compassion, common sense, or sense of humor.
"In addition to world folktales, her programs feature stories
by some of America's finest writers -- Sandburg, Bradbury -- and
the story of one of America's finest heroes, Lou Gehrig. Listening
to her moving and thoroughly entertaining interpretations of stories
set in the first half of the Twentieth Century, is to be brought
deep inside Myth America.
"Carol Birch offers listeners vivid reminders of what love
can endow along with lively memories to treasure and savor."
- Dr. Gwendolyn Nowlan, Southern Connecticut State University
Audio-Recording Wins Second Award!
Lou Gehrig: The Story of a Great Man received its second
award.
The first award was from STORYTELLING WORLD, the
second from the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PARENTING PUBLICATIONS.
Judge Marilyn McPhie wrote: "The true story of baseball
legend Lou Gehrig is a great American tale. An immigrant kid
overcomes poverty; succeeds through talent, hard work and persistence;
remains modest and honest in spite of fame; faces debilitating
disease with courage and grace; and leaves the lasting legacy
of a real hero. The story is compelling, heartwarming and inspiring.
Birch's storycrafting is nuanced, capturing the essential qualities
of the man in carefully chosen words and images. A fine listen
for older children and families." more >>
Our trip to Ireland is planned for July 28 - August 6, 2005.
Western Ireland’s A-B-C’s: The Aran Isles, The Burren
and Connemara — and Beyond
Come visit Western Ireland with its sleepy villages, charming
cities of Galway and Sligo and the wilder, wind swept panoramas
found on Aran Mor, the Burren, and Connemara. Alluring sights
by day with pub music, our own readings or stories, a guest storyteller
and a guest lecturer on Yeats by night...balm for body, soul,
and mind. more >>
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A Great Time in Baseball!
A Great Man for All Time! |
 Besides the
excitement of the winning an award for the Gehrig recording, Carol
Birch had the joy of telling Gehrig's story in Cooperstown, New
York at the Baseball Hall of Fame. Compared to most storytelling
audiences, the sixty-seat Bull Pen Theater held an amazing array
of burly and rowdy looking men. They didn't look like a listening
audience, yet to a man, they were an attentive and responsive.The
highlight of the event, however, was the "high" praise
from one baseball fan, who said as he departed: "That lady
knows her s---!" [expletive deleted]
The recording of Lou Gehrig encompasses his life from childhood,
through his career with the NY Yankees, his marriage and his final
battle with ALS. Gehrig's story is a study in contrasts. The son
of impoverished immigrants, he went on to attend an Ivy League
University. One of the most powerful and distinguished baseball
players of the 20th century, he remained modest and unassuming
throughout his career. Painfully shy, he avoided speaking in public,
yet he's remembered for a speech which reverberates in the American
psyche to this day.
In a world where winning is everything, Lou Gehrig offered us
all a more complex understanding of just what it is to lose and
what it is to win. His story -- with humor and heart, grit and
glory -- resonates for diehard baseball fans and the uninitiated
alike.
"Carol Birch did not live in Gehrig's era but like all compelling
storytellers, she revitalizes Gehrig's world and life in the telling
of his story. You'll want to join her for every step of this extraordinary
journey." -- The Patent Trader
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