On July 19, 2011, from 7:00-8:30 pm, I attended a performance of The Jonesborough Storytelling Guild at the Cranberry Thistle Restaurant on East Main St., Jonesborough, TN, and had the thrilling experience of hearing our own Marci take the stage and try out a brand new story and song. Guest teller Baba Jamal Koram was also present to perform two pieces, the second of which provided me with another telling example of colorful language and humorous meta-narrative.
During his rendition of a story in which Br'er Rabbit schools Br'er Alligator in the meaning of “trouble,” Koram commented on a rather ill-conceived outing that the entire alligator family—Mr. and Mrs. and brood—take together. “The family that plays together stays together,” he explained. We all chuckled at the irony of this expression of family unity in the face of their destination—each gator as eager as the next to go see what trouble is. With his comment, Koram brought this story world in tandem with our own and let us laugh at the folly of our own naivety: our best intentions not always yielding the individually intended or popularly presumed results.
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