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With her sparkling eyes, dancing hands and honey-sweet Southern accent, Betty Ann enthralls students with stories based on her own travels and the journeys of immigrants who came to America in search of a better life. These personal stories are priceless treasures that chronicle family history, transmit values, and preserve memories for future generations. Betty Ann can customize her story selections to suit your needs.
Note: Pair this program for older students with Let’s Go…Around the World with Stories (for younger audiences) by scheduling both programs on the same day for the two back-to-back price.
Betty Ann Wylie
Born into the storytelling tradition of the Deep South, Betty Ann Wylie was entertained and nurtured by the captivating stories of her parents and grandparents. Read to by her mother from early childhood, she developed a life-long love of books, oral tradition, and storytelling of all kinds.
A founding member of the Southern Order of Storytellers, Wylie is acclaimed for performances filled with stories, poetry, songs, and audience participation. She has performed extensively at festivals, schools, universities, in corporate settings, for civic and religious groups, and in libraries and museums. She mesmerizes audiences with tales beguilingly related, but with the dramatic gestures and voice changes of a born actress.
In 2000, she received the Outstanding Alumna Award for Distinguished Career from the Agnes Scott College Alumnae Association. She has also recorded two CDs of stories, the Parents' Choice award-winning "Mother Goose from Morning Till Night" and the newly-released "Pass It On: A Storyteller's Journey."
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Grade Level:
3, 4, 5
Program Type:
Assembly
Audience Limit:
250
Duration:
45 minutes
Requirements:
Table and chair
Cost:
Single Assembly: $255
Two Back-to-Back: $395
Three Back-to-Back: $510
Four Back-to-Back: $610
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