The End of The Road
Season 3 – Episode 2
Strange Circumstances
December 9, 2022
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.
In this episode we hear a story about Amy’s trip to Hungary (above), where she reconnects with her past..and (literally) leaves a piece of herself behind.
Photo by Anna Hunko on Unsplash
The WMC 2022 storytelling festival was magical. The Old Hardware Store is our original storytelling venue, and this year we added an outdoor venue on McCarthy’s West Side, the Glacier View Campground, thanks to our partners Gina and Nik Merlino and McCarthy River Tours. For those of you who have yet to visit the Wrangell Mountains Center, the Old Hardware Store is a charming 100 year old building that is the main hub at our campus in historic downtown McCarthy. Both stories in this episode were told at the Old Hardware Store.
Emma Stimpson at the Old Hardware Store
In this Episode
Amy Holonics tells a story in tribute to her father and their shared family roots in Hungary, when life took her to the land of her ancestors where her father’s past was uncovered and an unfortunate twist of fate ends up having some unexpected happy consequences.
Emma Stimpson, trained in theatre, gives an energetic performance of her story about a strange encounter at a Popeye’s Fast-Food Drive-thru in Florida.
Jon Erdman: Producer, host, episode writer, and Wrangell Mountains Center Executive Director
Michelle McAfee: Host, episode writer, editor, audio engineer
Old Hardware Store, Summer 2022
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Music Attribution
Swamp Picker by Adam Wheeler
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Sundance by Paul McLinden