Storytelling

As so many great storytellers have explained, storytelling transforms both the teller and the hearer, both the writer and the reader.  My grandmother, Naomi James Witherspoon, was the first to give me the gift of  the Barnes, James, Johnson story.  These stories fascinated me even then.  From grandmother's lips to my ears.  I was transformed. So it was, that I decided to start this blog and bring all of those stories into the 21st century, forever immortalized in this digital web format.  I acted out of a sense of deep urgency, afraid that the orality of our family's epic tale might die with my generation.  I fear that my generation has nurtured the last students of history. My vision for this project is limited.  I just know one thing - our story...

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