Every Day a Holiday: A Storyteller's Memoir - Ellis, Elizabeth
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"A glorious, memorable brew of witty, irreverent, profoundly wise, and deeply sacred autobiographical tales, served up in Elizabeth's lyrical, insightful, humorous style. Here we have written proof that the divine Miss E is both a master storyteller and an unofficial national treasure." > "Elizabeth Ellis's gift, and a rare gift it is, is to illuminate the universal through her honest explorations of the deeply personal. Sometimes hilarious, sometimes powerful and moving, her stories are always true to her own journey and her own remarkable storyteller's voice." --Gayle Ross, Circle of…mehr

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"A glorious, memorable brew of witty, irreverent, profoundly wise, and deeply sacred autobiographical tales, served up in Elizabeth's lyrical, insightful, humorous style. Here we have written proof that the divine Miss E is both a master storyteller and an unofficial national treasure." > "Elizabeth Ellis's gift, and a rare gift it is, is to illuminate the universal through her honest explorations of the deeply personal. Sometimes hilarious, sometimes powerful and moving, her stories are always true to her own journey and her own remarkable storyteller's voice." --Gayle Ross, Circle of Excellence storyteller and author, Cherokee Nation, OK > --Joseph Bruchac, Circle of Excellence storyteller and author, Greenfield Center, NY "From her childhood in Appalachia to her adult life in Texas, Elizabeth Ellis has soaked up life's big stories, re-shaped them with compassion and wisdom, and now retells them with humor, honesty, and gentleness. Readers and listeners can do no better than to sit at her feet, feeling glad to be human and ready to be kind." --Jimmy Neil Smith, Founder of the National Storytelling Festival (USA), Jonesborough, TN "Elizabeth Ellis is pure psychic of a storyteller. She somehow is able to always appropriately comfort the afflicted or afflict the comfortable...often at the same time!" --Donald Davis, Circle of Excellence storyteller and author, Ocracoke, NC
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I grew up in the Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee and Kentucky. Because my Father died in World War Two, my Grandfather was an active force in my life. My Mother moved us to Tennessee to grow up in the house in which my Father had been born. Every day that school was closed for two days in a row, we went "home". That was > I was a child who lived mostly in my own head. I never stopped talking, a great cross for my Mother to bear. Most of my closest friends were imaginary. On one level, that is still true today. The greatest influence on me as a child was Dr. Orvel Calhoun Crowder, the minister of the church across the street from my house in Tennessee. He introduced me to the world of books and the life of the spirit. After getting an undergraduate degree in English and History from Milligan College, I received my Masters in Education from East Tennessee State University. I came to Dallas to work for the Dallas Public Library as a Children's Librarian, a position I kept for a decade. In 1978, my old friend Gayle Ross and I made a trip to the Appalachian Mountains to attend the National Storytelling Festival. We met Jackie Torrance, David Holt, Donald Davis and the Folktellers, along with others who called themselves storytellers. On the way back to Dallas, "We could do that!" became "I will if you will!" We came home to Dallas and began plans to become professional storytellers. We worked as a duo, as The Twelve Moon Storytellers, for about four years or so. But, making a living large enough to support both families was extremely challenging, so eventually we each began solo careers. Making my living as a storyteller has been a great honor and a great joy. I have gotten to tell throughout the United States and Canada at festivals and conferences. A few years ago, I was invited to come to New Zealand to share my stories. In the last thirty-two years, I have told to more than a million school children. I have received the John Henry Faulk Award from the Tejas Storytelling Association and the Circle of Excellence Award from the National Storytelling Network. Each of these is a great honor, but the greatest honor is when anyone takes the time to listen. If there is anything I enjoy more than telling stories, it is teaching other people to tell. I present workshops at conferences, intensives in people's homes, as well as teaching in university settings. Helping other tellers develop stronger skills and deeper artistic lives is my highest accomplishment...except for raising my children and grandchildren, of course.