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Field Notes for Storytellers: Research, Security, and the Archival Muse fills a wide gap in storytelling instruction by helping you organize and conduct the research that underpins the stories you tell. There are four modules in the course, and each of them draws upon my experience as a storyteller, a folklorist, a doctoral researcher of ethically sensitive topics, and the CEO of a technology company.

A Stone for the Witches
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This Special Dispatch and the one to follow are rooted in the folkloristics of belief and material culture. I had originally intended to begin with an essay on Dunino Den, an ecologically exquisite ravine below Dunino Church in Fife with carvings in the rock dating back to the Stone Age, but one of the resources I want to consult for that essay is a documentary from the 1980s preserved on a VHS tape. As it happens, I have a working VCR in my attic (or at least, I think it still works), but I don't have an RCA to USB capture device. It's on order, and I expect to have it in a couple of weeks.

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