Every Day A Holiday: A storyteller's memoir [Paperback]

Elizabeth Elliss words jump off the page and into the secret part of your heart where you keep treasured memories and sacred feelings. She sings to you of her life and the lives of others with whom she intersects.?Compassionate and thought provoking, an Appalachian/Texan with a whole-world point of view with a little rabble rousing thrown in, Elizabeth Ellis is a true master of the written and spoken word.
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I grew up in the Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee and Kentucky. Because my Father died in World War Two, my Grandfather was an active force in my life. My Mother moved us to Tennessee to grow up in the house in which my Father had been
born. Every day that school was closed for two days in a row, we went home. That was
always the home of my Mothers parents in Kentucky.
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???? I was a child who lived mostly in my own head. I never stopped talking, a great cross for my Mother to bear. Most of my closest friends were imaginary. On one level, that is still true today.
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???? The greatest influence on me as a child was Dr. Orvel Calhoun Crowder, the minister of the church across the street from my house in Tennessee. He introduced me to the world of books and the life of the spirit.
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??? After getting an undergraduate degree in English and History from Milligan College, I received my Masters in Education from East Tennessee State University. I came to Dallas to work for the Dallas Public Library as a Childrens Librarian, a position I kept for a decade.
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???? In 1978, my old friend Gayle Ross and I made a trip to the Appalachian Mountains to attend the National Storytelling Festival.? We met Jackie Torrance, David Holt, Donald Davis and the Folktellers, along with others who called themselves storytellers. On the way back to Dallas, We could do that! became I will if you will! We came home to Dallas and began plans to become prl*