(MUSIC) Today's story is called The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. It is about something strange that happed long ago in a valley called Sleepy Hollow. It was written by Washington Irving. The story is told by Doug Johnson. (MUSIC) Narrator: The valley kn...
(MUSIC) Our story today is, The Devil and Tom Walker. It was written by Washington Irving. Here is Shep O'Neal with our story. (MUSIC) Storyteller: Before we begin our story, let us go back three hundred years to the late sixteen hundreds. In those...
(MUSIC) Our story is called The Diamond Lens. It was written by Fitz-James O'Brien. Today we will hear the second and final part of the story. Here is Maurice Joyce with part two of The Diamond Lens. (MUSIC) Storyteller: When I was a child, someone...
(MUSIC) Our story today is called The Cask of Amontillado. It was written by Edgar Allan Poe. Here is Larry West with the story. (MUSIC) Storyteller: Fortunato and I both were members of very old and important Italian families. We used to play toget...
(MUSIC) Our story today is called Rappaccinis Daughter. It was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. We will tell the story in two parts. Here is Kay Gallant with the first part of our story. (MUSIC) Storyteller: Many years ago, a young man named Giovanni...
(MUSIC) Our story today is called The Line of Least Resistance. It was written by Edith Wharton. Here is Larry West with the story. (MUSIC) Storyteller: Mister Mindon returned home for lunch. His wife Millicent was not at home. The servants did not...
(MUSIC) Our story is called The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. It was written by Mark Twain. Here is Shep ONeal with the story. (MUSIC) STORYTELLER: A friend of mine in the East asked me to visit old Simon Wheeler, to ask about my frie...
(MUSIC) Our story today is called, The Return of a Private. It was written by Hamlin Garland. Here is Harry Monroe with our story. (MUSIC) Narrator: The soldiers cheered as the train crossed the border into the state of Wisconsin. It had been a long...
Our story this week is called The God of His Fathers. It was written by Jack London in the year nineteen-oh-one. Here is Shep O'Neal with the story. (MUSIC). Storyteller: Silently the wolves circled the herd of caribou deer. Gray bellies close to th...
The western American city of San Francisco, California suffered a huge earthquake on April eighteenth, nineteen-oh-six. More than three thousand people are known to have died. The true number of dead will never be known. Two hundred fifty thousand p...
(MUSIC) Our story this week is Keesh. It was written by Jack London. Here is Shep ONeal to tell you the story. (MUSIC) Storyteller: Keesh lived at the edge of the polar sea. He had seen thirteen suns in the Eskimo way of keeping time. Among the Eski...
(MUSIC) Our story today is called To Build a Fire. It was written by Jack London. Here is Harry Monroe with the story. (MUSIC) Storyteller: The man walked down the trail on a cold, gray day. Pure white snow and ice covered the Earth for as far as he...
One December night, a long long time ago, a family sat around the fireplace in their home. A golden light from the fire filled the room. The mother and father laughed at something their oldest daughter had just said. The girl was seventeen, much old...
When I was young, I went looking for gold in California. I never found enough to make me rich, but I did discover a beautiful part of the country. It was called the Stanislaus. The Stanislaus was like heaven on earth. It had bright green hills and d...
I'm an old lawyer and I have three men working for me. My business continued to grow and so I decided to get one more man to help write legal papers. I have met a great many people in my days. But the man who answered my advertisement was the strang...
