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Producer, director, emcee, and storyteller Bob Eiland welcomes the audience at the beginning of the night, kicking off the evening with the story of traveling to Guatemala to pick up his newly adopted son.
Richard Ballon tells a story of growing up in Burlington with a Croatian/Italian father and a Portugese/Brazilian mother.
Helen Batchelder tells a story of being tormented by her older sisters one evening in her childhood home on Slough Road in “You’re Gonna Get in So Much Trouble!” (Spoiler alert: She got the last laugh!).
Lynda Vernalia holds up a box where audience members are invited to contribute written remembrances of their own family members. The stories were read aloud after intermission. A case of laryngitis kept Vernalia from performing; however, her daughter Isabelle stepped in to take her place.
Didi Chadran adjusts the microphone before beginning a story about the unexpected and untimely loss of his father.
Dressed in her grandfather’s Army jacket, Isabelle Vernalia reads an audience submission, having already told her own story of discovering her family’s past.
In “The Sock Closet,” Jennifer Ehlert tells of stealing socks from her father and six siblings to make clothes for her stuffed animals.
Bob Eiland (left) listens as Nick Browse reads an audience remembrance.
