Most of us like a good story. If we're not reading a story or telling a tale to our children, we're relating a personal event or humorous story to our coworkers. In 1973, Jimmie Neil Smith, Doc McConnell and some other professional storytellers decided to get together in Jonesborough, Tennessee and spend a weekend telling stories to whomever would come and listen. Since then, the National Storytelling Festival has attracted storytellers from around the world to tell folk tales, ghost stories, and real-life experiences to thousands of eager listeners. The Storytellers introduces some of the veterans of the National Storytelling Festival and presents an hour of tales that will make you chuckle, gasp, and concentrate on every word until the end. Meet Doc McConnell, who has been doing an old-time medicine show since the Festival began in 1973. Ray Hicks, a favorite North Carolinian storyteller, tells some mountain yarns and talks about his years at the Festival. Jackie Torrence and Connie Regan Blake, also from North Carolina, share stories of their own and talk about the importance of storytelling in American life.

So whether you're still a child at heart or just like hearing a good story--true or not--settle in a comfortable chair for an hour of good stories on The Storytellers.