Winner of the Anne Izard Storytellers\' Choice Award The hills and hamlets of western North Carolina in the 1950\'s provide the setting for this nostalgic tour de force by Donald Davis, who has appeared in live performance at the World\'s Fair, the Smithsonian Institution, the National Storytelling Festival, and on National Public Radio.
Davis has appeared on ABC.
He can be found in schools, at libraries, in front of conventions, and as a headliner at storytelling festivals.
He now tours the USA ten months a year, making about 300 storytelling presentations annually.
Fortunately, Davis had no trouble finding audiences: all of his former congregations lined up to book him to perform as a storyteller.
He would rather recall two old-maid sisters who abused the party line than marry one more couple.
Then came a day when he found that he would rather tell Uncle Frank\'s tall tales than give another sermon.
For twenty years he served the Western North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church.
He went to college and then to divinity school.
Young Davis was a capable student.
His legendary Uncle Frank was a front-porch storyteller of the first order and the source of many of Donald\'s tales.
He didn\'t realize it at the time, but he grew up in a family of gifted storytellers who passed their talent along to Donald.
About the Author: Donald Davis Bio: Donald Davis was raised in the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina.
These stories will teach readers the importance of caring, fairness and respect.
Developed in oral performance, Davis\'s stories resonate in the experiences of his listeners and readers.
The characters are memorable: Miss Daisy--one of the six Boring sisters, teachers every one
Daff-Knee Garlic, owner of the Sulpher Springs Big-Screen Drive-In Theater; and Aunt Laura, who knows to listen for the Crack of dawn.
He relates his youth in a cycle of growing-up stories, beginning before he enters school and culminating with the loss of friends to the Vietnam War.
Winner of the Anne Izard Storytellers\' Choice Award The hills and hamlets of western North Carolina in the 1950\'s provide the setting for this nostalgic tour de force by Donald Davis, who has appeared in live performance at the World\'s Fair, the Smithsonian Institution, the National Storytelling Festival, and on National Public Radio
