Story By Story:
Sharing the Human Experience

Joe Doolittle and Kate Dudding are hosting a TV program about storytelling. This series features stories and storytellers from the region as well as upcoming events.

Previous Programs

January 2015
Our guest Sandy Schuman shares a story "SC Johnson a family company ."

December 2014
Our guest Tom Weakley shares a personal story "Tommy."

November 2014
Our guest Dr. Claire Beetlestone shares a traditional story from Indonesia "Death and Cholera at the Hajj."

October 2014
Our guest Siri Allison shares a personal story "Vicki."

September 2014
Our guest Mary Murphy shares a personal story "New Friends."

August 2014
Our guest Kate Dudding shares a story about Betty Friedan "Choices."

July 2014
Our guest Gil Payette shares a traditional Tohono O'odham story "Snake is Dying."

June 2014
Our guest Anne Marie McLaughlin shares a personal story "My Mother's Wake."

May 2014
Our guest Bonnie Mion shares an historical story about her great-grandfather "Captured."

April 2014
Our guest Betty McCanty shares a personal story "Niagara Falls."

March 2014
Our guest Mary Murphy shares a traditional story "How St Patrick Drove the Last of the Serpents Out of Ireland."

February 2014
Our guest Kent Busman shares a personal story "The Tale of Boaz."

January 2014
Our guest Siri Allison shares a traditional Mayan story "Corn in the Rock."

December 2013
Our guest Eileen Egan Mack shares her traditional story "Goldilocks with a Twist."

November 2013
Our guest Margaret French shares her personal story "Determined to be a Liberal, Free-thinking Person."

October 2013
Our guest Christie Keegan shares her personal story "Just Deserts."

September 2013
Our guest Nancy Marie Payne shares her personal story "Chewing Gum."

August 2013
Our guest Sandy Schuman shares his traditional story "The Loneliest Winter."

July 2013
Our guest Janet Carter shares her historical story "The Mill People."

June 2013
Our guest Claire Nolan shares her personal story "Both Food and Drink."

May 2013
Our guest Micki Groper shares a traditional story "The Awongalema Tree."

April 2013
Our guest Aditya Agashe shares his personal story "Remembering My Grandmother."

March 2013
Our guest Stephen W. Leslie shares his personal story "Helen of Troy."

February 2013
Our guest Eliud Nieves shares his original story "The Selfish King."

January 2013
Our guests were Joe and Jesse Bruchac. Here is Joe sharing a traditional Abenaki story "Glooskonba and Segunk."

December 2012
Our guest Lâle Davidson shares her personal story "The Haunting of Zelda."

November 2012
Our guest Alden (Joe) Doolittle shares his personal story "Hands."

October 2012
Our guest Jeannine Laverty shares the traditional Japanese story "The Stonecutter."

September 2012
Our guest Betty McCanty shares the story "My New Hat."

August 2012
Our guest Karen Pillsworth, Storyteller Laureate of Kingston, NY, shares her original story "Betsy Bubblegum."

July 2012
Our guest Barbara Chepaitis shares her version of "The Three Bears."

June 2012
Our guest Peggy Cimino shares one of her favorite stories "Trouble."

May 2012
Our guest Kent Busman shares a new story "The Lost Tools of Schoharie."

April 2012
Our guest Kate Dudding shares one of the historical stories she tells "The Gift of Hope."

March 2012
Our guest Ben Russell from Children at the Well shares one of the tradition stories he tells "The Wisest Man in Chelm."

February 2012
Our guest Lorraine Hartin-Gelardi shares one of her tradition stories "Truth and Story."

January 2012
Our guest Rev. Harlan Ratmeyer shares one of his personal stories "The Christmas with Coal."

December 2011
Our guests are Tales ‘n Tunes, Carol Connolly and Don Darmer, sharing one of their favorite stories "Wide Mouth Frog."

November 2011
Our guest is Sandy Schuman sharing one of his Adirondack/Chelm fusion stories "The Fly Fishing Contest at Chelm's Pond."

October 2011
Our guest is Betty Cassidy telling her World War II story "The Letter."

September 2011
Our guest is Dan Berggren telling about and singing his song "Old Green Sweater."

August 2011
Our guest is Alan McClintock telling a literary story "The Lake Dreams the Sky" by Swain Wolff.

July 2011
Our guest is Mary Murphy telling the oldest American haunted house story.

June 2011
Our guest is Margaret French telling one of her fabulous personal stories "The Gopher Museum."

May 2011
Our guest is Marni Gillard telling of her upcoming performances of Granuaile: A Notorious Woman -- The True Story of Grace O'Malley, Ireland's Pirate Queen (1530-1603). Below a part of the first episode of this story.

April 2011
Our guests are Joe and Jesse Bruchac sharing stories and songs from their Abenaki heritage, including the story "Gluskabe and the Wind Eagle" told in English and Western Abenaki.

March 2011
Our guest is Christie Keegan telling stories, including the first one she heard, a folktale from Africa, as well as this personal story.

February 2011
Our guest is Siri Allison telling stories, including some from her Norwegian heritage. Who knew that it's common in Norway to hide Easter eggs on a snow-covered roof???

January 2011
Our guest is Jeannine Laverty telling how she came to storytelling, and memories of her father.

December 2010
Our guest is Kent Busman telling how he uses stories as the director of Fowler Camp and Retreat Center, a youth camp in Speculator, NY. Kent is also an ordained minister in the Reformed Church in America, living in Scotia, NY. One of the stories he shared is a Native American story from the Pacific Northwest.

November 2010
Our guest is Fran Combs Berger sharing her journey as a storyteller from listening to her elders in Tornado Alley in Oklahoma, to doing a weekly radio show in California with her 7 year old daughter, to her current life as a storyteller in Castleton. We also discuss her upcoming appearance at Tellabration: Laughing Fits -- Stories of Smiles and Surprises in the GE Theatre at Proctors, Sunday, Nov. 14, 2:00. Click here to see the slides from this show.

October 2010
Joe and Kate discuss their own types of historical storytelling: how they started, what kinds of stories they tell now. They each share some of these stories. Click here to see the slides from this show.

September 2010
Our guest is Joe Peck sharing his life as a storyteller, writer and dairy farmer in Saratoga. We also discuss his upcoming appearance with Joe Doolittle at Word Plays at Proctors, Sunday, Sept. 26, 2:00 in a show called "Enthusiasm!" Click here to see the slides from this show.

August 2010
Our guest is Nancy Marie Payne sharing how she became a storyteller, her upcoming appearances at the 18th Annual Not Just for Kids Storytelling Series in Fort Hunter, NY (just west of Amsterdam) and Summer Storytelling Vespers in Cohoes at The Boght Arts Center, as well as two stories. Click here to see the slides from this show.

Our guests in December 2009 were Gert Johnson, Ritam Mehta and Ben Russell from Children at the Well. This is Children at the Well’s fifth year of bringing young people (and their families) of different faiths together in a subtle way, by developing and sharing stories from each young person’s own tradition, rather than by trying to change minds politically. This fall's class of students will be presenting their own storytelling program on Sunday, December 13 at the First Unitarian Society of Schenectady.

Our guest in November was Nancy Marie Payne. Some of her tales, gleaned from history, tell of immigrants, orphan train riders, suffragettes, Underground Railroad characters and female pioneer aviators. Traditional tales and personal stories add a lighter touch to her repertoire. She performs locally and is always eager for new storytelling challenges.

Our guest in October was Goos Terscheggert, a member of Schenectady-Nijkerk Council as well as a long distance solo sailor.

Our guests for September 2009 were James Bruchac and his father Joseph Bruchac. They share information about the third Saratoga Native American Festival on the grounds of the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Oct. 3-4. The second festival was the largest gathering of native people in Saratoga Springs since the 1700s.

Starting on September 2008, our previous guests have been: Marni Gillard, Fran Combs Berger, Barbara Chepaitis, Jeannine Laverty, Margaret French, Ilyssa Simsek and John Lyden from Children at the Well, and Siri Allison.

A second benefit for both Story Circle at Proctors and SACC TV-16 was held at Proctors on Thursday, April 2nd: Wine & Chocolate: Stories of Decadence, Blarney and Mirth. You can also read about our first benefit performance.

Public Access TV-16 broadcasted this program to all households in Schenectady County with cable TV. Time Warner Cable broadcasts this program on its public access cable Channel 18 to many other communities in the Capital Region.