Do you and the kids need a little break while attending the fair? Why not take a load off and listen to a story?
This year, for the first time, storytellers are being offered at the fair. They are in the Folk Festival tent most evenings, sponsored by the state Department of Cultural Resources.
Tonight, Braima Moiwai, the Two Bells and Ella Stewart will be telling stories from 7 until 8.
The schedule for the rest of the fair:
Monday -– Ray Mendenhall, 6 to 7 p.m.
Tuesday -– Priscilla Best, Charles “Wsir” Johnson, 6 to 7 p.m.
Wednesday -– Willa Brigham (host of television’s "Smart Start Kids"), 6 to 7 p.m.
Thursday -- No storyteller
Friday -- Bill Friedman, 7 to 8 p.m.
Saturday -- No storyteller
Sunday, Oct. 26 – Willa Brigham, Beverly Burnette and Baba Jamal Koram, 7 to 8 p.m.
Thad Ogburn is The N&O's Metro Editor, overseeing most local news reporting. His previous jobs have included editor of North Raleigh News and Features Editor, during which he learned that comics attract more reader response than just about anything else we do. His guilty pleasure is reality TV, which he finds not very real at all. That's assuming, of course, there is room on his DVR amid his daughter's "iCarly" episodes and his wife's daily installments of "One Life To Live."
