Well, this creepy trio of tales closes out our Season of The Stories of Summer! Christian and Larry dig into a couple of their own haunting tales to start out the episode, then Malia Collins, Dr. Marlene Tromp, K Lange, and Emily Herbster give us some killer true crime and Hawaiian Night Marchers live from Scaryfort 2020. We also get into some teasers about what to expect for Season #2, Playlist: Stories From the World of Music. Enjoy! We've had an amazing time bringing you Season #1!! Thanks for listening and keep the Story moving Forward, y'all. See you next season. Stay safe, well, and kind out there! Check out the EaseDrop podcast network at ease-drop.com. We thank them for housing this podcast! Logo Artwork by Nicky Mustard - nickymustard.com. Editing credit to Jared Bostrom and Brett Badostain. Join the Story Forward conversation on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1171329766614324 Story Forward can be found on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever you find your favorite podcasts. Enjoy! Support Story Forward by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/storyfort-presents-voices-of-t Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/storyfort-presents-voices-of-t/b43294de-fd0b-48e6-b2b0-92737c2c3699

Storyfort Presents: Voices of Treefort Music Fest

Haunting Summer Campfire Stories

As we're now post-Labor Day and easing out of summer we wanted to visit the always-storied experience of the family vacation. Larry and Christian hop back in the station wagon, the RV, the Volkswagen van, and hit the road with Mom, Dad, Sisters, and Kids. They dig into a handful of wild and sentimental stories about their own experiences, both as youngsters and adults, taking vacations far and wide with their kin folk. Then Correspondents Joe Davidson and Ryan Marsh hop in with their unique and heartfelt tales of epic adventures in the woods and bar takeovers in Italy. Enjoy! Travel on and travel safely! Be safe, smart, and well out there. And remember, keep moving the story forward! Check out the EaseDrop podcast network at ease-drop.com. We thank them for housing this podcast! Logo Artwork by Nicky Mustard - nickymustard.com. Editing credit to Jared Bostrom and Brett Badostain. Join the Story Forward conversation on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1171329766614324 Story Forward can be found on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever you find your favorite podcasts. Enjoy! Support Story Forward by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/storyfort-presents-voices-of-t Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/storyfort-presents-voices-of-t/9bb3c7eb-1a08-4ed6-884f-0142a9315a7c

An American Summer Classic: The Family Vacation

This week Larry and Christian loop back to the nagging question of what exactly constitutes a summer read. They give a few of their own takes, but more importantly have a sit down with Pulitzer Prize winning author and all around amazing human, Anthony Doerr. We're going big time on you! Anthony gets into his soon to be released novel, Cloud Cuckoo Land, where the title came from, the intricacies of process and scope he embraced as he wrote this 600-page beauty, and his thoughts, as a writer and reader, on what makes a summer read a summer read. Anthony was so great we've skipped the Correspondent this week and just stuck with the man. The Correspondents triple up next week though. Enjoy! Cloud Cuckoo Land is released on 9/28 right as summer winds down and we head into fall. You can pre-order your copy today if you go to anthonydoerr.com, or to your favorite indie bookseller! Be safe, smart, and well out there. And remember, keep moving the story forward! Check out the EaseDrop podcast network at ease-drop.com. We thank them for housing this podcast! Logo Artwork by Nicky Mustard - nickymustard.com. Editing credit to Jared Bostrom and Brett Badostain. Join the Story Forward conversation on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1171329766614324 Story Forward can be found on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever you find your favorite podcasts. Enjoy! Support Story Forward by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/storyfort-presents-voices-of-t Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/storyfort-presents-voices-of-t/86015fb8-6e10-4503-a060-b53e28e2b8a4

Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land, and The Unexpected Summer Read

This week we take a ride through some epic Theme Park stories and experiences of the Magic Kingdom, love and loss, fathers and sons, girls, travel writing, growing up in So Cal, and the lasting impact of being a Disneyland Jungle Cruise Captain. Larry and Christian talk theme park memories to start things off, then Larry goes on a Disneyland deep dive with Capt. Mike Sigalas. To round out this week's episode Larry brings us our Correspondent piece, a story all about a girl, a father, a date, and an unforgettable theme park memory. Be safe, smart, and well out there. And remember, keep moving the story forward! Check out the EaseDrop podcast network at ease-drop.com. We thank them for housing this podcast! Logo Artwork by Nicky Mustard - nickymustard.com. Editing credit to Jared Bostrom and Brett Badostain. Join the Story Forward conversation on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1171329766614324 Story Forward can be found on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever you find your favorite podcasts. Enjoy! Support Story Forward by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/storyfort-presents-voices-of-t Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/storyfort-presents-voices-of-t/0af79fa2-2292-477f-8aff-473b49d997d3

The Theme Parks of Summer

This week we feature THREE Correspondent stories all about strange, awkward, difficult, wholly memorable summer jobs. Also, Larry and Christian riff on some of their own narratives all about wild and odd places of summer employment - both southern and northern hemisphere featured! Our Correspondents are - 1) Forest Gurlach with a story of misadventure and relative misery in the Alaskan fishing industry 2) Jocelyn Robertson brings us back to the '90's with a one-hour photo tale of complicated woe 3) Sam Berman rounds us out with a story all about doing anything for the money and the juice in Chicago. Enjoy! Be safe, smart, and well out there. And remember, keep moving the story forward! Check out the EaseDrop podcast network at ease-drop.com. We thank them for housing this podcast! Logo Artwork by Nicky Mustard - nickymustard.com. Editing credit to Jared Bostrom and Brett Badostain. Join the Story Forward conversation on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1171329766614324 Story Forward can be found on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever you find your favorite podcasts. Enjoy! Support Story Forward by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/storyfort-presents-voices-of-t Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/storyfort-presents-voices-of-t/089f9955-b5c1-432c-ac25-34b4b0b4633a

The Summer Job

This week Larry and Christian sit down with the amazing Rachel Levin who writes about food, culture, travel, and the many wonders of life. Including summer camp. We dig into our varied experiences at summer camps, 1980's through the present - as campers, counselors, and parents. Those wet, hot American summers were full of lasting stories for all of us, and here are a few. Our multi-talented Correspondent this week is the one and only Ben Tanzer. Writer, teacher, podcaster, aficionado of all things book, run, gin, street art and more! Be safe, smart, and well, and remember, keep moving the story forward, y'all! Learn about all things Rachel Levin at https://www.byrachellevin.com. Learn about all things Ben Tanzer at tanzerben.com. Check out the EaseDrop podcast network at ease-drop.com. We thank them for housing this podcast! Logo Artwork by Nicky Mustard - nickymustard.com. Editing credit to Jared Bostrom and Brett Badostain. Join the Story Forward conversation on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1171329766614324 Storyforward can be found on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever you find your favorite podcasts. Enjoy! Support Story Forward by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/storyfort-presents-voices-of-t Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/storyfort-presents-voices-of-t/9508d0eb-43eb-4dc3-9bb4-1bc0e4f20478

Summer Camp

This week we're hitting the road, or at least discussing the power and majesty of the iconic American road trip in summer (and really always). Larry and Christian sit down with best-selling novelist and road trip aficionado, Jonathan Evison, to talk about how uniquely embedded the movement and ideals of the road trip are in his work, even as Evison has never quite recognized all the road trip nuances in his novels. As well, the gents get into some of their own, and Johnny's, wild antics and adventures on the road! Our Road Trip Correspondents lead this week is Jared Bostrom and Dan Delion! Great stuff! Be safe, smart, and well, and remember, keep moving the story forward, y'all! Learn about all things Jonathon Evison at jonathanevison.net. Check out the EaseDrop podcast network at ease-drop.com. We thank them for housing this podcast! Logo Artwork by Nicky Mustard - nickymustard.com. Editing credit to Jared Bostrom and Brett Badostain. Join the Story Forward conversation on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1171329766614324 Storyforward can be found on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever you find your favorite podcasts. Enjoy! Support Story Forward by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/storyfort-presents-voices-of-t Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/storyfort-presents-voices-of-t/7be9409f-15ea-43f6-8dd7-b1c3bec3d9a5

The Summer Road Trip

This week Larry and Christian dive into the dog days of summer, talking baseball - major and minor league - BSU summer football, the sports market in Boise, and many other sports and sports adjacent happenings in summer with longstanding Idaho sports radio host on KTIK, and sports columnist with the Idaho Press, Mike Prater. A spirited and thoughtful conversation! Then our special guest correspondent, writer, friend, and storyteller of the highest caliber, Carrie Seymour, brings us her remarkable essay on her thorough and unremitting love of baseball. Beautiful stuff! Enjoy and stay cool out there. Be safe, smart, and well, and remember to keep moving the story forward, y'all! Learn about all things Mike Prater at https://www.facebook.com/mike.prater.37. Check out the EaseDrop podcast network at ease-drop.com. We thank them for housing this podcast! Logo Artwork by Nicky Mustard - nickymustard.com. Editing credit to Jared Bostrom. Join the Story Forward conversation on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1171329766614324 Storyforward can be found on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever you find your favorite podcasts. Enjoy! Support Story Forward by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/storyfort-presents-voices-of-t Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/storyfort-presents-voices-of-t/08ca05e5-e81a-49d5-98eb-2ec5f020ba62

The Dog Days of Summer: Sports of Summer

This week Larry and Christian sit down with Will Leitch, journalist, novelist, founding editor of Deadspin, father, blogger, and, among many other things, cohost of the wildly popular movie-centric podcast, Grierson and Leitch. We talk about the entity known as The Summer Movie, dig deep into what that moniker actually means, how it's carried out, who goes and sees summer blockbusters and who defers to the art house gems in the heat of the season. We examine a few tropes, favorites, bombs, and the simple joy of going to an air conditioned movie theater on a hot summer day or night. Our amazing Correspondents this week are writers and storytellers Allison Maier and David McNeil, two movie aficionados and friends who talk growing up watching summer movies in Saudi Arabia, the necessity of bringing The Bourne Identity to a party and making everyone watch while you narrate, and the joy of browsing the aisles of any given Blockbuster (RIP). And more! Be safe, smart, and well, and remember, keep moving the story forward, y'all! Learn about all things Will Leitch at https://leitch.tumblr.com. Check out the EaseDrop podcast network at ease-drop.com. We thank them for housing this podcast! Logo Artwork by Nicky Mustard - nickymustard.com. Editing credit to Jared Bostrom. Join the Story Forward conversation on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1171329766614324 Storyforward can be found on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever you find your favorite podcasts. Enjoy! Support Story Forward by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/storyfort-presents-voices-of-t Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/storyfort-presents-voices-of-t/735fb5f7-cf2f-4fdd-b76d-3f0c377d1c59

The Summer Movie - Explored and Explained

This week Larry and Christian get into a particularly memorable July 4th weekend that took place on San Juan Island in 1989. A dozen friends, all dudes. Far too much beer. Plenty of laughter, injuries, fuzzy antics, and stories that have lived on as pieces of the puzzle that was our lives back in our early twenties. We get into how we all remember and tell the story of that weekend from a unique vantage, and how memory has and continues to shape that years-gone narrative as time has marched on. We managed to wrangle one old friend from that lost weekend to come on as our guest. Eirik Olsen joins us to tell and talk about how he adds up that Independence Day weekend in 1989. Then, the amazing Kevin Smokler delivers our correspondent piece all about his family's tradition of counting flags every July 4th. Be safe, smart, and well, and remember, keep moving the story forward, y'all! Learn about all things Kevin Smokler at https://www.kevinsmokler.com/about-kevin/. Check out the EaseDrop podcast network at ease-drop.com. We thank them for housing this podcast! Logo Artwork by Nicky Mustard - nickymustard.com. Editing and sound design by Jared Bostrom. Join the Story Forward conversation on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1171329766614324 Storyforward can be found on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever you find your favorite podcasts. Enjoy! Support Story Forward by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/storyfort-presents-voices-of-t Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/storyfort-presents-voices-of-t/6589abb9-cc32-4f3d-9999-64a1fd643fa1

Independence Day - Remembering the Mayhem, and Counting Flags

We roll on with the Season One and Summer Stories with co-hosts Larry Rosen and Christian Winn continuing to explore the entity of the Summer Read, this episode through the lens of the bookseller, book buyer, and the very human joys of in-store experience of bookstores in summertime, and really all the time.  We sit down via Zoom with Pete Mulvihill, co-owner (along with his wife) of San Francisco's iconic indie bookstore, Green Apple Books. We talk origin story, pandemic community support, exciting summer titles, the literary legacy of San Francisco, and more! As well, we have our man Ross Hargreaves on as this week's Correspondent, giving us his take and insider narratives of working the floor as a big-box Barnes and Noble bookseller. Funny, droll, very Ross. Enjoy! Happy Summer, and keep moving the story forward, y'all! You can find out about all things Green Apple Books at greenapplebooks.com.  Check out the EaseDrop podcast network at ease-drop.com. We thank them for housing this podcast! Logo Artwork by Nicky Mustard - nickymustard.com. Editing and sound design by Jared Bostrom Join the Story Forward conversation on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1171329766614324 Storyforward can be found on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever you find your favorite podcasts. Enjoy! Support Story Forward by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/storyfort-presents-voices-of-t Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/storyfort-presents-voices-of-t/0ce61dad-36fe-415d-b3d6-11990238e9cc

Summer Reads: The Booksellers' Takes

We kick off season one of our exciting new podcast - Story Forward - by diving into the many facets of the concept and execution of the summer read. What constitutes the iconic summer read? Who is reading what in the summer? What does it mean to write and release a book in summer?  Co-hosts Larry Rosen and Christian Winn deliver their takes on the summer read then sit down with best-selling novelist, Jessica Anya Blau, whose newest novel, Mary Jane, was just released in the runup to summer 2021. Then Christian delivers our Correspondent Story in this debut episode, a yarn all about, among other things, a Charles Bukowski book he appropriated from a love interest one summer over thirty years ago. Welcome and happy summer! Keep moving the story forward, y'all! You can find out about all things Jessica Anya Blau at https://www.jessicaanyablau.com. Check out the EaseDrop podcast network at ease-drop.com. We thank them for housing this podcast! Logo Artwork by Nicky Mustard - nickymustard.com. Editing credit to Jared Bostrom and Brett Badostain. Join the Story Forward conversation on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1171329766614324 Storyforward can be found on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever you find your favorite podcasts. Enjoy! Support Story Forward by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/storyfort-presents-voices-of-t Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/storyfort-presents-voices-of-t/cf0e7da9-3642-4cf6-a1a1-7d585716a66b

The Summer Read w/ Jessica Anya Blau

Story Forward is a weekly podcast that's all about the big, strange, heartfelt, important stories we tell. For our first season we bring you twelve weeks of Summer Stories; the stories we spin during and about summer. Throughout our Summer Stories season we'll be looking at the books we read, the movies we see, the music we listen to, the tales we weave. We'll hear from authors, booksellers, movie critics, sportswriters, podcasters and even a Disneyland jungle cruise captain.  We’ll talk about beach reads, blockbusters, summer camps, July 4th outings gone sideways. There will be family vacations, scary campfire stories, tales of baseball fandom, road trips, wild and dangerous summer jobs in Alaska among so many other classic and singular stories of summer. Slather on the sunscreen and keep moving the story forward! StoryForward is a part of the EaseDrop Podcast Network Artwork by Nicky Mustard Music and Editing by Jared Bostrom Support StoryForward by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/storyfort-presents-voices-of-t Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/storyfort-presents-voices-of-t/982148f0-175c-45b2-a197-1a694a247ebf

StoryForward Trailer

This week we're featuring three of the amazing writers who were among Storyfort's winning writers for our themed writing contest, The Before and The After. Poet Dani Parmenter, Essayist Deana Brown, and Fiction Writer Tomas Baiza talk process and the writing life w/ Storyfort Director Christian Winn. AND the winning works are read! Enjoy these amazing and talented writers' work! Take care and see you at the Fest in September! Then again in March of '22! Contact Storyfort at story@treefortmusicfest if you have queries about these writers, or any of our programming. You can learn more about Treefort Music Fest, see the full schedule, buy tickets and download the app at www.treefortmusicfest.com Storyfort Presents: Voices of Treefort Music Fest is a part of the EaseDrop Podcast Network Theme music provided by Up is the Down is the Support Storyfort Presents: Voices of Treefort Music Fest by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/storyfort-presents-voices-of-t Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/storyfort-presents-voices-of-t/d0cc5369-96df-4598-9b73-0de1e961b1fc

The Before and The After: Three Winning Writers

This week we return to the Idaho Botanical Garden for some poignant stories of rebirth and reemergence as well as some whip-smart Covid comedy. Bloom: A Reading Series Season #2 has begun! Tai Simpson and Odd Hours Theater Co. brought the good stuff, and we can't wait to see all you Boise Area folks at the IBG again on May 10th for the second installment! Be safe, well, and kind. See you at the Fest in September of '21! Learn about all things Tai Simpson at taisimpson.com. Find Odd Hours Theater Co by searching Instagram. All things Idaho Botanical Garden and Bloom can be found here - https://idahobotanicalgarden.org/event/bloom-a-reading-series-april-12/ You can learn more about Treefort Music Fest, see the full schedule, buy tickets and download the app at www.treefortmusicfest.com Storyfort Presents: Voices of Treefort Music Fest is a part of the EaseDrop Podcast Network Theme music provided by Up is the Down is the Support Storyfort Presents: Voices of Treefort Music Fest by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/storyfort-presents-voices-of-t Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/storyfort-presents-voices-of-t/df10571b-75a2-437e-87b2-456af26763bc

Bloom Season #2 Begins w/ Tai Simpson and Odd Hours Theater

Grab your Treefort wristband, steel cup, open arms, sense of discovery, and get ready to live the Treefort Music Fest magic year-round. Storyfort Presents: Voices of Treefort Music Fest is a podcast featuring TMF super fans, musical wonders, Fort-wide artists, origin stories, founders, on-the-ground narratives, builders, volunteers, and tales of just what it's like to experience and put together our wholly unique, dynamic, inclusive music and arts festival. The stories abound. And remember: Treefort is for everyone, as is this podcast. See you at the Fest!

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