StoryTown Radio Show is a monthly local performance project that brings community stories, memories, humor, history, and a few well-earned tall tales to life through radio-style scripts. The show is still going today, with monthly performances broadcast on public radio.
I don’t remember the exact year I first joined, but it was sometime in the late 2010s, when the show was still called The Yarn Exchange and performed at the International Storytelling Center. We rehearsed on the last Sunday of the month, then recorded the live performance on Monday.
During the COVID pandemic, the show moved to the McKinney Center.
At first, I participated occasionally as a voice actor. Then I wrote my first contribution, a story about one of our cats getting stuck in a sleeper sofa, because apparently every writing life needs at least one furniture-based animal incident. After that, I began writing scripts more regularly, and by 2023 I was contributing to nearly every show.
I continued writing and performing until late 2024, when I stepped away for personal reasons.
These scripts remain an important part of my creative history. They taught me how to shape stories for listeners, how to write for voices instead of pages, and how much can happen when local memory, performance, humor, and community all meet at the microphone.
