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Origin of the Story Tellers’ League Movement in America
One time some half a hundred people gathered on a lawn at twilight at the close of a summer’s day, to tell stories, to sit on the grass, to relax, rest and commune with those spiritual forces that lie dormant in literature and in nature until touched by living and creative personalities. We were a group of teachers attending the Summer School of the South at the University of Tennessee. Twice a week these meetings were held with an informal program of stories and the singing of familiar national melodies. At the close of that session of the school, numbering over two thousand teachers, a formal organization was made which afterward became the National Story Tellers’ League. That was July, 1903, and marked the beginning of the Story Tellers’ League movement in America.
Since that time the movement has grown until many local leagues have sprung up all over the United States. The purpose of the whole movement in a word is the told story, oral literature, with the young people always in view.