The Official Story Count for the Summer of 2011 is 113!

Wednesday and Thursday, June 23^rd and 24^th, the Study Abroad Ireland tellers told their third stories in class.  With these last 20 stories, plus one more from me, our official count for the summer is 113.  I promised them at least 100 stories and we surpassed that nicely.  It’s been a tremendously rich and satisfying experience.  Here’s what they told:

1. (93) Ashley Sanders told The Fox and the Goat from Duncan Williamson’s The Genie and the Fisherman.
2. (94) Melinda Bokel told The Road to Heaven from Irish Folktales by Henry Glassie.
3. (95) Lizzy Murphy told a story that I told her.  I think I heard LynnAnn Wojciechowicz tell it at some point.  It’s about a piper who goes with the fairies to learn their music.  No idea of the name or source.  Lizzy called it Patrick Murphy.
4. (96) Jesse (“I’m a horse” Yeller) Soper told Willie Brennan from Glassie.
5. (97) Sarah (Tiger Lily) Stephens told The Weakness of the Ulsterman from Over Nine Waves by Marie Heaney.
6. (98) Nikki Dugie told The Hungry Hired Man from Glassie.
7. (99) Faye Daniel told A Strange Pig from Eddie Lenihan’s Meeting the Other Crowd.
8. (100) Angela Roman told The Big Cat and the Big Rat from Sean O’Sullivan’s Folktales of Ireland.
9. (101) Laura Rutherford told her ½ hour version of Deirdre that she has crafted from multiple sources.
10. (102) Kim Wellman told The Skeptic’s Story from Lenihan.
11. (103) Shelli Curtis told The Queen of the Planets from O’Sullivan.
12. (104) Kayla Linn told The Victory of Famine Days from Glassie.
13. (105) Bryan Jagiello told The Magic Spade from Irish Folktales for Children.
    
14. (106) Fidencio (Fiddy) Ybarra told A Pig on the Road from Gort from Glassie.
15. (107) Alysa Brimacombe told The Talking Head of Dunn-Bo from Irish Folk and Fairy Tales by Jarvie.
16. (108) Tammy Chapman told Bridget Gets Lands for the Poor from The Moon in the Well by Erica Helm Meade.
17. (109) Alison Vincent told The Soul Cages from various sources.
18. (110) Melissa Barrett-Traister recited The Lovers of Aran by Seamus Heaney.
19. (111) Michelle Fish told Fallen Angels from Lenihan.
20. (112) Andrea Robinson told an original story, The Rainbow Sheep, that she and Alison Vincent wrote.  It was inspired by the sheep she saw in Northern Ireland during her weekend with Liz Weir.
21. (113) I recited Tomboy by Dee Strickland Johnson again because Bryan Jagiello had asked me to. I closed with the story of The Whole Brain, from Tales Told in Tents by Sally Pomme Clayton.

Bravo to Everyone!