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MPLS: "National Park Stories" by Jim Stowell

  • American School of Storytelling 1762 Hennepin Avenue South Minneapolis, MN, 55403 United States (map)

These are stories of a 46 year love affair. What Jim calls his, Spoken Story Book, starts with the first time he went camping and ends with the last night he worked for the National Park Service 46 years later. The stories of a young man who knows absolutely nothing about camping or the wilderness but becomes a National Park Ranger. A young man who cannot stand being alone with himself and years later feels good all over when surrounded by miles of solitude.

His wilderness and National Park stories take you to very different places. Camping in a Sequoia tree grove, a short stop in heaven. Discover the true meaning of, “Evolution in Action!” Why Jim’s older brother Lorenzo was unanimously voted in as President for life of the Intergalactic Mis-direction Society and what is the miracle of the Miracles of Wow?

Quotes from reviews of his work. “Mr. Stowell is a great American storyteller.” “Stowell is the area’s premier storyteller.”

Teller Bio:
Learn more at Jim Stowell’s website

A professional actor, director, playwright and storyteller for around fifty years, Jim has written and directed eleven full cast plays. This includes two children’s plays, two adaptations, a Spanish language one-act and the book for a musical comedy, running somewhere in America for the last 17 years and produced three spinoffs.

Jim has written and performed twelve one man plays that were commissioned and produced by six different theaters in Minneapolis-Saint Paul. His work has also been performed in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Houston, in a big blue tent in Northern Wisconsin, an Art Center in Mexico, a theater in Guatemala, a school in Nicaragua, a banana plantation in Honduras and a jungle village in Brazil.

$15
Tickets at https://americanschoolofstorytelling.com/event/national-park-mar-23/

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