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RANGELEY — Peggy Yocum will lead a workshop on storytelling from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 29, at the Rangeley Public Library, 7 Lake St.
The workshop, “How To Recall and Tell Our Stories,” will teach participants fun ways to mine their own memories for stories and to prompt their relatives for stories to treasure. For adults and older youths, the workshop will be especially useful to people who want to remember past events, to write pieces that draw on memory, to research family history, to make family scrapbooks and to have more tales to tell on cozy fireside evenings.
People who would like to come just to listen to stories are also welcome. Participants will leave with new ideas, new stories, and a handout on techniques and resources.
From 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 9, Western Maine Storytelling invites anyone who would like to listen to stories or to share a story to come to the Storytelling Swap. Three members of Western Maine Storytelling will also be on hand with stories to tell.
The events are part of Western Maine Storytelling’s “A Community Celebration of Stories!” – a program of workshops and informal storytellings in four area towns — Livermore Falls, Wilton, Rangeley and Farmington. All is made possible by grants from the Maine Humanities Council and United Way of the Tri-Valley Area.
Organized in 2011, Western Maine Storytelling is a group of storytellers and story-listeners who present programs and support the art of storytelling in the region for audiences of all ages. For more information about the Rangeley events, call the Library at 864-5529 or Yocom at 864-3421, myocom@gmu.edu. Visit westernmainestorytelling.org for more details about Maine storytelling. 
