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April 22, 2004

 

Media Contact: Leanne Ingle, Communications Specialist, 704-4508; e-mail: lingle@trlib.org.

Radio producer-storyteller Joe McHugh takes us home with family stories

Photo of Joe McHughThe Olympia Timberland Library presents "The Telling Takes Us Home: Celebrating American Family Stories, with Joe McHugh" at 7 p.m., Wednesday, May 5 at 313 8th Avenue SE, Olympia.

Join radio producer, storyteller, and traditional fiddler, Joe McHugh, as he shares stories he’s heard while traveling the backroads of the country. McHugh, whose stories have been featured on NPR’s Morning Edition and Voice of America, shows how the telling of family and community stories draws people together and creates meaning. McHugh and his family have recently settled in the Olympia area.

The program is free of charge and is being sponsored by the Friends of the Olympia Timberland Library. For more information, call 360-352-0595.

Timberland Regional Library serves the information, reading and lifelong learning needs of the Grays Harbor, Lewis, Mason, Pacific, and Thurston county public at 27 community libraries and 6 school-based cooperative library centers. For information on any subject, the public can call Timberland’s Central Reference Service librarians at 704-INFO (704-4636) from Thurston County, Shelton and Oakville or 1-800-562-6022, toll-free, from all other areas in the district. Or they can "Ask a Librarian" online at www.trlib.org.

Revised 04/22/04


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