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•SECTION 2 PAGE 4 PLMNDEALER - FRIDAY. MARCH 9. 19M ffgeneral News Each performance unique for storyteller (PA yj /factMAsts, McHENRY, 1886 -- This envelope, dated March 9, 1886, addressed to Farm & Hearth, Augusta, Maine, was purchased by a McHenry stamp collector at the recent Stamp Dealers Show in Chicago. COME CELEBRATE WITH US v§ ON ST. PATRICK S DAY! JOIN US FOR D1NNER-• - •FRIDAY FISH FRY 5PM TO 10PM •SATURDAY NIGHT DINNER] 5PM TO 10PM •SUNDAY BRUNCH 10 AM TO 2PM SUNDAY DINNER 3PM TO 8PM CHAPEL HILL V? roUNTRY CLUB !̂5oon srBD' 815-385-0333 By Kurt Begalka Shaw Free Press News Media He straddles a wooden stool, dressed in a red flannel shirt, leather vest, jeans and cowboy boots. A broad-brimmed hat overshadows a black moustache, but his eyes dance beneath the soft light. Although it is another Friday night coffeehouse at McHenry County College, each per- formanace is a unique ex­ perience for Jim May, MCC counselor and storyteller from Greenwood. "I think I've always kind of been a storyteller," May says. "People like to sit down and tell a story. It has always been an effective way of communicating with people on an emotional and intellectual level." He regales the audience with a tale entitled "Moose-Turd Pie." We hear about Ganyo, a French "world shampienne moose call- air e." "When I tell a story I try to enlighten and delight, but also to capture, for a few moments, the kind of direct, 'soul to soul* communication that we have all experienced at some time in our lives," May says. May is a member of the National Association for the Preservation and Perpetuation of Storytelling (NAPPS) and has attended storytelling festivals and workshops in Tennessee, Kentucky and West Virginia. He has received extensive exposure to the Appalachian brand of story - stressing the -rural values May grew up with. "I was born, bread and raised in McHenry County," says the 36-year-old May. The Spring Grove native recalls the at­ mosphere of his grandfather's general store and his Uncle Paul's gas station -- swapping goods and jokes. "It was a different culture," he says. May describes his father, George W. May, as a farmer and *5.00 • 14 HOUR SESSION SUNTANNING WE TAMED THESUN... ...and made it comfortable! FREE TRIAL CALL 344-2202 UNLIMITED VISITS FOR 30 DAYS... $75 MAX. VISIT -- 1 MR. VISITS MUST BE 48 HOURS APART GUARANTEED IMMEDIATE RESULTS... MEDICALLY PROVEN...SAFER THAN THE SUN! ADVANTAGES OVER "COFFIN" TYPE BEDS 1) TWICE AS FAST 2) FOAM MATTRESS...NO HARD PLASTIC 3) USE OF LOCKER ROOM WITH JACUZZI & SAUNA 4) SAME PRICE! McHENRY NAUTILUS 804 MILL ST. - McHENRY horse-trader. "Somehow I think I inherited some of that," he acknowledges. He remembers a story his father used to tell about a man who swapped his black pacer for carbon-copy trotter and left the pacer to graze in a field over­ night. The next morning the unwitting farmer hitched up the animal to his buggy and proclaimed it had learned to pace overnight. "Every culture has a trickster figure," May says. "For my generation it was Bugs Bunny." May's sense of humor is pervasive. "I attended a one- room schoolhouse with indoor privies. It had all the ad­ vantages of outdoor toilets with the smell inside," he says straight-faced. "It had 25 kids grades one through eight. One student in third grade was valedictorian, of course." May spent 10 years as an elementary school teacher , in Woodstock and the last four as a counselor at MCC. "I've learned most of what there is to know about communicating with a group," May says. After attending a storytelling festival in 1979, May told his students a story he remem­ bered. "Something magic happened," May says. "I knew I had to learn more." Beside expressing friendship, honor, forthrightness and un­ derstanding one's heritage, May says traditional storytelling fits his lifestyle. "It brought me home," he said. He draws a lot from personal experience on the family farm. "Everybody worked," he recalled. "I had a job when I was six months old." His parents sat him in the kitchen doorway and his yelling kept the chickens out, he said. May's favorite story is taken from a written work by Richard Kennedy entitled Come Again In The Spring . It is about how an old man out­ smarts death with the help of the birds he has helped. "Some stories. . . the first time you hear them a little light goes on," May said. "May' likes the mouhtain "jack" tales because of their "humanfess. They protrray people working, struggling and beating the odds, he says. "A story can create a very strong image." May perfects a story through repetition; adding, subtracting, ever-sensitive to the audience. Tales forever evolve around a basic plot line. "When I hear a story I already know, it's like meeting an old friend," May says. ' "I don't sit home and spend 10 to 12 hours telling stories in the mirror," he said. He practices on friends and "when it starts to feel good, I'll try it out on a group." During the last year he has been paid for his efforts. He's even written a few original works. Anybody can tell stories, May said, but you have to be a good listener. He is in the process of interviewing older county residents to hear their stories. "I'm getting real fascinated by what I'm finding out," he said," adding there is a magic and richness which fascinates. T "You'd be surprised how" much a story carries you," May says, but there's an art to the telling. "The storyteller can only do what the audience lets him," May says. "You need a certain amount of amorie , chutzpah." Storytelling has other benefits, May says. It en­ tertains, makes life a little happier and provides "imagery for the mind. In this TV- communicative world, that is something we've been cheated out of." May is trying to organize his own storytelling group and is working with the Richmond- Spring Grove Chamber of Commerce on a weekend storytelling festival slated for July 29. "It's primordial," he says of storytelling. It's like staring into a campfire. "We don't know why we are spellbound by it, but we are." It is a talent May believes man will never lose. There will always be stories, he says, although the names and languages may be different. "YoU remember well those things that had a positive, emotional impact on you," May says. "Storytelling has always had that effect on me." SHEPHERD of the HILLS LUTHERAN CHURCH 404 N. Green St. Rev. Roger W. Schneider Phone 385-7786 or 385-4030 Sunday Church 8:30 fit 10:45 Sunday School 9:15 Nursery Service* Available WONDER LAKE BIBLE CHURCH phone: 728-0422 or 728-1687 7501 Howe Dr. Wonder Lake. Ill Merle D. Conklin. Paitor Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship Service 10:50 am Prayer Hour - Wed 7:30 p.m. ZION EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH (Missouri Synod) 4206 W. Waukegan Rd. (Rt.120) Rev. Hermann F. Craef 385-0859 385-1616 Sunday Worship 7:45 fit 10:30 Nursery Services at 10:30 Education for Eternity. Sunday School Children fit Youth 9:00 a.m. McHENRY COUNTY FRIENDS MEETING (QUAKER) . 1st fit 3rd Sunday 11:00 a.m. For information call 385-8512 or 312-683-3840 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY Lincoln Rd fit Eastwood Lane Sunday Service fit Sunday School 10:30 Wed. 8 p.m. Reading Room Tues At Thurs 2-4 Saturday 11-12 Noon ALLIANCE BIBLE CHURCH 3815 W. Bull Valley Rd. Rev. Gerald Robertson Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship 11:00 a.m. Evening Worship 7:00 p.m. Choir Practice 6:00 p.m. Wednesday Bible Study and Prayer 7:30 p.m. ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST CATHOLIC CHURCH JOHNSBURG Rev. John R. Holdren, Pastor Rectory Phone: 385-1477 Sat. Eve. Mass 5:30 p.m. Fulfills Sun. Obligation Sun. 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Sunday Morning Worship 11 am Sunday Evening Worship 6:30 pm Friday Bible Study 7 pm Wed Bible Study 6:30 pm CHAIN 0 LAKES EVANGELICAL COVENANT CHURCH 4815 N. Wilmot Road Church Phone 497-3000 Parsonage 497-3050 Rev. Marlowe Shoop Sunday School for all 9:45 a.m. Worship Service 11:00 a.m. J^eekday/N^gh^Jjro^j^rougi NATIVITY LUTHERAN CHURCH 3506 E. Wonder Lake Rd. Box 157 Wonder Lake. Illinois Phone 653-3832 Sunday Worship 8:00 fit 10:30 a.m. Sunday School 9:00 a .m. (Nursery Facilities Available) ST. PATRICK'S CATHOLIC CHURCH Rev. Edmund Petit, Pastor Sat. Eve (Sunday Obligation Fulfilled) 5 p.m. Sunday 7:15. 8:30. 9:45 II fit 12:15 UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH 258 Sunnyside. Lakemoor Rev. Nolan Hilderbrand 312-279-6289 Sunday 9:45 a.m. fit 6:30 p.m. Wednesday 7:30 p.m. Bible Study Fri. 7:30 p.m. Wed. 7:30 p.m. Bible Study Friday 7:30 p.m Youth Service FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 3717 W. Main Street Church Phone 385-0931 Thomas Lowery, Pastor Parsonage Phone 385-1352 Sunday Service 9:30 a.m Church School 10:45 a.m. CHRIST THE KING CATHOLIC CHURCH 5006 E. Wonder Lake Road Wonder Lake. Ill Sun Masses 8. 10 am fit noon Sat Evening Mass 5:00 p.m Fulfills Sunday Obligation RINGWOOD METHODIST CHURCH Ringwood. Illinois Pastor Gordon Smith Res. 648-2848Church 653-6956 Sunday 9:1 5 a.m. Church School 9:45 a.m. ST. PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH 3706 St. Paul's fit Green 385-0390| Rev. Marion Mailey, Rector Sunday Services Nursery Provie 8:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist 9:30 a .m. Christian Education 10:00 A.M. Family Eucharist Wed. 9:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist Holy Days as Announced FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | 509 Front St. 385-0083 Thomas R. Roberson. Pastor Bible Study-Sunday School 9:30 a.m Worship Service 10:45 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. Wed. Prayer Service t>:30 p.m. CHURCH OF GOD OF McHENRY (Pentecostal) 3813 John St.. McHenry. Ill Sunday School 10:00 a.m. Morning Worship 10:50 a.m. Sunday Evening 6:00 p.m. Kevin Grissom. Pastor Phone 344-2032. 344-3950 THE CHURCH OF ST. MARY OF THE ASSUMPTION 1403 N. Richmond Rd.. McHENRY 385-0024 Rev. James G. Gaynor. Pastor Rev. James Novak. Asst. Priest Rev. Walter Johnson. M.M. Rev. Stanley Ryzner Rev. C. Alfred Dietsch Saturday Evening Matt 5:00 p.m. (Fulfills Sunday Obligation) Sunday Masses 6:30. 8:00. 9:30. 9:45. 10:45. 11:00. 12 noon