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0000017b-01f0-d19f-ab7b-19f504c50002A mobile storytelling project from WKAR Current State, Residential College in the Arts and Humanities at MSU, and community partners.

Pop-Up Story: 'Your History, But Not Your Future'

Storyteller Marissa Thaler
Amanda Pinckney
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WKAR-MSU
Storyteller Marissa Thaler

All week long we’ve been bringing you stories from our last event at Fenner Nature Center, where the theme was “blazing a trail.” Here’s a story from storyteller Marissa Thaler about how her mom helped their family change course.

 

 

WKAR’s next “Pop-Up Stories” event is coming up fast, it’s this Friday night at the Great Lakes Folk Festival. We hope you’ll join us from 6:30 to 8 for community storytelling inspired by the theme “on the road again.”

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