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| Keef, storyteller |
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Keith tells stories about his native home county of Lincolnshire. He has lived in the same cottage all his life except for three years when he was away at college. Brought up on a farm, he understands the joys and sorrows of Lincolnshire rural life.
Keith tells a story of Jabez, his great-grandfather, who went courting one winter's night in South Ormsby. He still has a recording of Geoff telling the story. Keith has a number of Lincolnshire stories including the "Wormsgay Dragon," "Grandfather's Windsor Chair" and "Jack went to Horncastle Fair." Keith relates Bible stories, for instance, "The King's Golden Statue", "The Farmer" and "Creation" and also regularly does assemblies at Halton Holegate School Traditional stories include "The Frog that went to a Party in the Sky", "The Blindman and the Hunter", "The King of the Birds," "George and the Dragon," "The Mills that Grinds," "The Snake," "Sir Gawain and the Lady," "The Man with no Luck," and "The Triumphal Arch"; his children's stories include "Annie, the Clever Baker," "Noisey and the Hens" and "Silly Jack". Keith's geat-great grandfather's boot-making workshop can be seen at the Hackett Barn Museum in the Alford Manor House Grounds. |
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