Reviews & Coments about the Storyteller
All quotes listed below are unsolicited written comments kept on file in the Storyfest archives
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ÒYou (Bob) told beautifully. The deep roar of the ocean, the growing mystery and the sense of climax and battle and mystery were all caught - with a growing power.
ÒYour voice and person changed powerfully. It was the tale the moved me most in Baton Rouge.Ó
Jay OÕCallaghan
Massachusetts
1984
Storyteller Jay OÕCallaghan performed at the same festival in Louisiana as did Bob.
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ÒCongratulations to you for your perserverance and success in restoring the role of Story in our rationalistic and technological culture... a great way to raise the spirits and souls of people. Bless you! Keep up your great work.Ó
Al McBride.
Massachusetts
1999
Al was BobÕs teacher at Catholic University in the 60Õs.
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ÒThank you for mailing me Storyfest Magazine. I found especially interesting and affirming your articles on the holiness of everyday stories.Ó
Donald Hayn
Pennsylvania
Don attended our storytelling skills institute in 1988.
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ÒIt was both exhilerating and exciting to have the world of storytelling opened to me. IÕll be using stories in a new ministry for children...Ó
Gus Pappalardo
New York
1987
Gus has participated in the Storytelling as Sacred Art seminar.
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ÒI think often of the week I spent with the two of you. It will always be with me. What has impressed me most is the importance of storytelling in its impact on the listener.Ó
Ron Henke
California
1983
Ron has taken the basic storytelling skills workshop with Storyfest.
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Ò...Someone else knew about you (Storyfest). His comment was -- Ôthey are so expensive.Õ I tried to tell him that it is worth it.
Ò...My sabbatical was okay. I learned stuff. It was a nice time away. But there was nothing creative about it. I liked my one week of storytelling (with Storyfest) better. In the last few weeks I told the story -- first person singular -- of Lazarus, Peter, and Mary Magdalene as my homily. People are amazed -- (saying) you made those stories up yourself.
ÒThanks for your help in my ministry.Ó
David Otto
Michigan
1994
David has studied storytelling at two Storyfest institutes.
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ÒYour Storyfest Journal is great. Both of you write so well. Thank you for sharing your talents and stories.
ÒI gobbled up the stories on Assisi. I am amazed that you didnÕt cancel (because of the earthquake). Apparently, it was worth every minute of the time you were there. Bravo!!!!Ó
Amelia Marini
New Jersey
1998
Amelia has been on TEN of our journeys, including Assisi, Italy.
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ÒThank you for your sharing your gifts of stories. I enjoy being ÔFeatured ListenerÕ whenever there is a chance.Ó
Mary Ann Wharton
North Carolina
1999
Mary Ann has traveled with us on storytelling tours to Wales and to Spain.
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ÒThank you for all the work and care that went into the last weekÕs institute in Florida. I enjoyed the week very much, and I took good memories away.
Ò...I am already putting some of what we learned into plans for some upcoming talks I am giving.Ó
Edward W Schmidt
Illinois
1995
Ed attended tha annual ÒStorytelling as Sacred ArtÓ Institute
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ÒI told the Wolf of Gubbio story as I said I would (as a homily) -- I had mentioned before church that one of our parishoners (who had been in the county jail for six months) would be sentenced that week.
ÒI had hoped that someone would put the story the story and that fact together, as most had been reluctant to visit the jail at all.
ÒThat afternoon I went to the jail to visit, and the parishoner told me that one of our members had been to see him. And mentioned something about a story!
ÒNeedless to say, I was deeply pleased. The power of the story! Thanks for telling it.Ó
Emily Bell
Nevada
1984
Emily brought Bob to Nevada to do a storytelling workshop
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ÒThank you so much for your excellent sessions for our CREDO participants. You make the world of story and theology so alvie and life-giving. Thank you for sharing with us.Ó
Mary Garvin
Washington State
1985
Mary had Bob do a storytelling workshop for her group of religious educators in the Archdiocese of Seattle.
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ÒI really enjoyed the Storyfest Journey to Ireland. The storytelling was marvelous, the sightseeing fascinating, the accommodations and the food satisfying, and the company interesting and likeable.Ó
Bob Navarre
Michigan
1991
Bob travelled with Storyfest twice. Once to East Anglia, and once on a storytelling journey to Ireland.
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ÒI want to thank you once again for the workshop and concert. I am still hearing rave reviews from the people who attended the workshop. They seem to have gotten many helpful tips.
ÒThe attention you received from the young audience at the Family Concert still amazes me. When I saw the number of very young children, I was fearful at first. Several of the mothers told me they were very surprised at how well their younger children recounted the stories when back at home.Ó
Mary Ann Glazer
Kentucky
1983
Mary Ann invited Bob to do a workshop and a performance for the Archdiocese of Louisville.
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ÒI want to thank you for the week... I think it was the most helpful Continuing Education seminar IÕve done since seminary. The combination of the academic with the practical experience was just right for me.
ÒThis past Sunday I used the story of JesusÕ forty days in the wilderness with the angel that ministered to him at the end of the forty days being the one who is telling th story.
ÒI felt real good about it, and also got some real encouraging comments. So, thanks for all your help.Ó
Scott Patterson
Ohio
1999
This is the second seminar Scott has taken with Bob
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ÒI had requested your catalogue in a preliminary search for an unusual vacation...
ÒI was absolutely stunned to find that EVERY one of your offerings read like ÔRequired for Life 101Õ
ÒThe problem now is deciding which one to take.Ó
Annie Buchanan
Pennsylvania
1991
Annie never did travel with us. Maybe someday she will.
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ÔI have read the materials in your latest mailing with envy. I wish I could join one of the workshops.
ÒFor sometime I have meant to write telling you how much I enjoyed the session you did at the Washington Cathedral last summer. I was there on a Saturday evening and there were a number of people queued up to speak with you so I didnÕt wait.
ÒContinue the good work.Ó
Barard Marthaler
Washington, DC
1988
Barard was BobÕs teacher at Catholic University and directed BobÕs masterÕs dissertation in the late '60s on ÔThe Figure of Christ in the Writings of Nikos Kazantzakis.Ó
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