A Story Teller from days past
News ·Saturday January 31, 2009 @ 20:12 EST (link)
Tennessee… the patron state of all things shooting.
—Bob Lee Swagger, Shooter (2007)
20090130: For my birthday this year, I checked in 20 bug fixes, and helped Honey go over her math test.
20090131: Well, what do you know, Wikipedia has an entry for Story Teller (a serial story magazine for children that our parents bought us growing up; they came with tapes that read the stories and had sounds to turn the page; think of it as extremely low-tech TV!) and for one of the stories it serialized, Gobbolino and the Little Wooden Horse. The main page lists some other stories that I remember well, some classics, some lesser known: Wind in the Willows, The Wizard of Oz, The Little Tin Soldier (with the evil Jack in the box), Heidi, Timbertwig's Christmas Tree, Rumbles in the Jungles ("You are banished to the swamps for your evil treachery!"), The Lord of the Rushie River, The Ju-Ju Man (people would go into his cave… but never come out, although he'd acquire new furniture), Molly Whuppie ("Woe betide ye…"), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, What Wanda Wanted, and William Tell. Ah, memories; ah for the days when people read books rather than watch television. I often say that one of the best things my parents ever did for me was to let me grow up without a television (we have one now, but only watch DVDs and pre-recorded programs on our Myth box).
