Speaker to explore connection between story telling, heritage
Mary McCullum Baldasaro will speak on the art and importance of story telling in maintaining and understanding local heritage at a meeting of the Mapleton Historical Society.
McCullum Baldasaro is a 20-year member of the Storytellers’ Guild of Baden which now meets at the Button Factory in Waterloo. She is a frequent teller at Stories Aloud at the Button Factory and has also told stories at Joseph Schneider Haus, Latitudes Festival, Toronto Storytelling Festival, St. Mary’s Storytelling Festival, Sharon Temple and the Waterloo Regional Museum.
McCullum Baldasaro’s recent doctoral study considers the intersection of story and place, highlighting the reciprocal way in which place may call forth story and story may bookmark place.
An elementary school teacher, she sings in two choirs, and writes and directs liturgical drama.
She and her husband Barry have five children and live in downtown Kitchener.
The meeting will be at 7pm on June 9 at Goldstone United Church on Wellington Road 8. Everyone is welcome to attend and refreshments will be served.
