Small-town storytelling festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee

What BBN said about it

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorA storyteller named Josh Goforth stood beneath the Courthouse Tent in Jonesborough, Tennessee, and decided to open his set with a song, the Washington Examiner reports.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThat is the story. A man in a tent chose a song.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThe tent sits just yards from the railroad tracks.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorA locomotive has no opening act, no microphone, and no intention of letting a ballad finish.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt's the National Storytelling Festival. It ran for three days in October, in five large tents across town.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorFive tents.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorOur team coverage has a fake live map, and every tent is a red dot, and the red dot nearest the tracks is flashing.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorWe don't have a map.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorOrganizers expected nearly ten thousand listeners from across the globe, including a storyteller from Wales.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThe WJHL station says officials hoped people would come out despite the rain.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt started in nineteen seventy-three with hay bales for stages and sixty people, tellers included. The audience has since grown. The hay has not been confirmed.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSo Jonesborough, the whole country could learn from you. Sit down, tell a story, and keep one ear on the tracks.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSixty people on hay bales in nineteen seventy-three, and the biggest threat to the story is still a train.