The End of The Road
Season 3 – Episode 5
Moments In Life
January 2, 2023
This podcast series features handpicked stories from the 2022 Storytelling Festival in Kennicott-McCarthy. The Wrangell Mountains Center hosted 3 days of grassroots storytelling that summer, featuring local and visiting storytellers. In this series we explore some of the magic of that in-person event.
Madz sharing her story at the West Side storytelling event. Photo by Dave Sarbell.
Episode 5 is our last episode of the season in this storytelling series and features two stories told at the West Side venue. Madz shares a poignant, vulnerable story about a friend, and Nik Merlino our host and sponsor for the West Side event - owner of McCarthy River Tours & Outfitters and The Glacier View Campgound - tells a story about a sitcom-like moment in life with Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski.
Nik Merlino owner of Glacier View Campground, West Side venue, host and sponsor for the storytelling festival. Photo by Dave Sarbell.
In this Episode
Madz tells an intimate, moving story about her friend, and the judges for the competition selected her story as the winner at the West Side venue.
West Side host, sponsor and business owner Nik Merlino tells a humorous story about meeting Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski that didn’t quite go as planned.
Jon Erdman: Producer, host, episode writer, and Wrangell Mountains Center Executive Director
Michelle McAfee: Host, episode writer, editor, audio engineer
Old Hardware Store, McCarthy, Alaska
Collage from the 2022 Storytelling Festival in McCarthy, Alaska.
Thanks to our supporters far and wide, and thank you for joining us at The End of the Road.
Music Attribution
Swamp Picker by Adam Wheeler
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Acoustic Fingerpicking 10 by Independent Music Collective