Cape Girardeau Storytelling Festival

What Is A Storytelling Festival?

A storytelling festival brings tellers and listeners together for one enchanting event you won’t soon forget.

Enjoy the Magic

A master storyteller weaves pure magic. As a storyteller’s story unfolds, personalized images play on the screen in each listener’s mind... images based upon each person’s own unique life encounters and experiences. Those gathered find themselves enthralled as they revisit some old long lost friends…memories created along this journey called life. Perhaps a memory about your favorite teacher or man’s best friend. Tears, joy, laughter, sorrow, recollections and remembrances: a gamut of emotions are experienced.

Create a Story of Your Own

Cape Girardeau - like storytelling - is a historically rich treasure "where the river turns a thousand tales," a charming river community as stimulating as the stories themselves. A place where you can feel the romance of the river and its tales. Live history through the people and places that created it. Experience the region’s best dining, lodging and entertainment…And leave with a story of your own.

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There Are Stories Waiting to Be Told … Have You Heard?

I grew up in a small town in a time when there were no cell phones, no computers, no pagers, no e-mail, no Internet. The TV was black and white and offered three fuzzy channels and was seldom watched. I grew up in my grandparent's backyard. In looking back, I now marvel at the nightly ritual that took place. My parents and grandparents visited each evening with their neighbors to the right and to the left. They were outside actually having conversations face to face with other human beings. We didn't have text messaging, but we did have the Davie Street grapevine. And the stories flowed freely and richly each evening.