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Scary Stories Around the Campfire at Historic Johnson Farm September 20
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This evening storytelling event will be held on Saturday, September 20 from 7 to 9 pm. It features storytellers Virginia "Blackfeather" Thompson, Jerry and Ingrid McNair, and Lisa Whitfield. Children will have the opportunity to roast marshmallows. Hot dogs and beverages will be available for purchase. Admission is $4 Adults, $3 Students K-12. Preschoolers free.
- Virginia "Blackfeather" Thompson is an experienced lecturer and storyteller whose specialty is in Native American Indian folklore, culture and mores. She is well-known in Western North Carolina and has made numerous appearances in many venues during her 30 years as a professional storyteller. She is a frequent guest artist in the Henderson County Public Schools and other schools in the area. Thompson herself is Cherokee and Shawnee. She also enjoys telling traditional mountain stories as well.
- Ingrid McNair is currently Farm Coordinator of Historic Johnson Farm. She has 21 years of experience working with schoolchildren, 11 of them at Historic Johnson Farm where she leads public tours, conducts school field trips and tells stories to schoolchildren. She will tell the "The Spooky House".
- Husband Jerry McNair has a long-standing interest in entertaining and story-telling and is an instructor at Blue Ridge Community College. He has worked in deaf ministries in area churches for 30 years. He is employed at Ferguson Enterprises. He will tell "No One Here But You" and "The Haunted House".
- Lisa Whitfield is a retired music/art/folk-arts teacher with 31 years experience. She also served as Director of Historic Johnson Farm for eight and a half years. She has a Masters degree in music education and found a deep love of traditional and blue grass music after attending a music week at the John C. Campbell Folk School. She plays regularly with the Sassafrass Band and leads a music worship group, Allelu!, at St James Episcopal Church in Hendersonville. She told stories to elementary children during her time teaching the Folk Arts program in all of the Henderson County elementary schools. Lisa currently works as Education Coordinator at the Smith-McDowell House Museum in Asheville.
It was the Johnson brothers� wish that their property be used as a heritage education center, and they bequeathed it to the Board of Education. Today the farm is operated as a heritage education center by the non-profit Henderson County Education Foundation and the Henderson County Public Schools. (Other foundation projects are the Bullington Horticultural Center, Education Hall of Fame, teaching grants and discreet assistance to needy students.) The farm and the foundation depend on public support. The farm has two nature trails, an 1870�s boarding house, a barn-loft museum and shed, 10 historic buildings, and 15 acres of fields, forests and streams. The property was a gift to area schoolchildren by the late Vernon and Leander Johnson. Contact Farm Coordinator Ingrid McNair at 828-891-6585, or visit www.historicjohnsonfarm.org for more information.
(Images provided by Johnson Farm.)
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