Pam Petty Storyteller

Pam Petty has been a storyteller for the last nineteen years. Her stories feature the life and times of a little girl growing up in rural Tennessee in the 1950's and 1960's. Pam's stories pay tribute to a loving family, including her treasured grandmother and grandfather. Her encounters on the family farm will make you laugh and stories of the family members who shaped her life will make you cry.

Pam has been a featured storyteller at the Tennessee Reading Association's Annual Conference in the years 1996-1999. In 1999 and 2000, Pam was a featured storyteller at the International Reading Association's National Conference in San Diego and Indianapolis, respectively.

Two of Pam's personal experience stories are published in Teaching Through Stories: Yours, Mine and Theirs. Betty D. Roe, Suellen Alfred, Sandy Smith. Norwood, Massachusetts: Christopher, Gordon, 1998.

Educational associations, civic organizations, and other service groups seek Pam's storytelling services. Pam also provides inservice training for educators on writing and using family and personal stories in the classroom. Interested parties can contact Pam at the sources listed above. Quotes are based on travel and on the length of requested storytelling performances.

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Previous Storytelling Performances of Original Stories:

INTERNATIONAL

Petty, P. "Persecution in the Pews." Authored by Pam Petty. Told as a featured storyteller at the Whole Language Umbrella Annual International Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, July 29, 2000.

NATIONAL

Petty, P. "Hardy Hardhead 2.0." Featured teller, International Reading Association Conference, Atlanta, GA, May 6, 2008.

Petty, P. "Secrets of Life." Traditional tale. Told at the Storyteller Special Interest Group, International Reading Association's Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, May 3, 2006.

Petty, P. "Mountain Dew." Authored by Pam Petty. Told at the Storyteller Special Interest Group, International Reading Association's Annual Conference, Orlando, FL, May 6, 2003.

Petty, P. "Farm for Sale." Authored by Pam Petty. Told at the International Reading Association's Annual Conference, Orlando, FL, May 5, 2003.

Petty, P. "Mountain Dew." Authored by Pam Petty. Told at the International Reading Association's Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 7, 2001.

Petty, P. "Rhyme and Reason." Authored by Pam Petty. Told at the Storytelling Special Interest Group, International Reading Association's National Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana, May 3, 2000.

Petty, P. "Persecution in the Pews." Authored by Pam Petty. Told as featured storyteller at the International Reading Association's National Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana, May 2, 2000.

Petty, P. "The Grandmother Story." Authored by Pam Petty. Told at the Storytelling Special Interest Group, International Reading Association's National Conference, San Diego, California, May, 1999.

STATE

Petty, P. "A Lifetime of Stories." Authored by Pam Petty. Told as the featured storyteller at the Tennessee Reading Association Conference, Cool Spring, Tennessee, November 13, 2005.

Petty, P. "Deciduous Death Wand” and “Famous Last Words.” Authored by Pam Petty. Told as featured storyteller at Bottom View Farm Second Annual Storytelling Festival, Portland, Tennessee, April 14, 2005.

Petty, P. “Quilts and Tortillas.” Traditional southwestern folktale. Storytelling session at Franklin Road Academy, Brentwood, Tennessee, April 22, 2005.

Petty, P. "Farm for Sale." Authored by Pam Petty. Told at the Adult Education Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, September 22, 2003.

Petty, P. "Which Came First - The Story or the Writer?" Presented at the KAACE conference, Lexington, Kentucky, September 22, 2003.

Petty, P. "A Dollar Short." Authored by Pam Petty. Told at the Tennessee Reading Association's Conference, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, December 8, 2000.

Petty, P. "Mountain Dew." Authored by Pam Petty. Told at the Tennessee Reading Association's Conference, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, December 8, 2000.

Petty, P. "Out the Window." Authored by Pam Petty. Told at the Tennessee Reading Association's Conference, Chattanooga, Tennessee, November 30, 2001.

Petty, P. "Deciduous Death Wand." Authored by Pam Petty. Told as featured storyteller at the Tennessee Reading Association's Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, November 19, 1999.

Petty, P. "All Right." Authored by Pam Petty. Told as featured storyteller at the Tennessee Reading Association's Conference, Memphis, Tennessee, December, 1998.

Petty, P. "Down Home Entertainment." Authored by Pam Petty. Told as featured storyteller at the Tennessee Reading Association's Conference, Chattanooga, Tennessee, November, 1997.

Petty, P. "A Little Girl's Reflections: Persecution in the Pews." Authored by Pam Petty. Told as featured storyteller at the Tennessee Reading Association Leadership Meeting at Henry Horton State Park, July 18, 1997.

Petty, P. "Pew Persecutions: A Little Girl's View.'' Authored by Pam Petty. Told as a featured storyteller at the Tennessee Reading Association Conference in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, December 6, 1996.

Petty, P. "361 and 408." Authored by Pam Petty. Told as a featured storyteller at the Tennessee Reading Association Conference in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, December 6, 1996.

Petty, P. "The Grandmother Story." Authored by Pam Petty. Told as a featured storyteller at the Tennessee Reading Association Conference in Nashville, Tennessee, November, 1994.

Pam maintains over 2,200 educational websites, including one dedicated to storytelling:
http://www.pampetty.com/storytelling.htm