The sixth annual Hear Tell Storytellers Fest will be celebrating women’s suffrage with March being Women’s History Month, along with military-themed authors and illustrators to bring out a Holocaust memorial Never Forget: An Introduction to the Holocaust.
The Storytellers Fest will take place at Morrison Library this Saturday, March 7 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
The traveling Holocaust exhibit is one which has yet to be presented in this area. It will be on display until Monday, March 23. The Hear Tell Storytellers Fest and Holocaust exhibit is family-friendly but geared toward adults and children in fourth grade and up.
“This particular exhibit focuses on the opposite of what many people think of the Holocaust as taking place at the end of World War II. When you preview the exhibit it begins to depict when it first started and how it occurred,” says library director and event organizer Bonnie Davis.
Never Forget: An Introduction to the Holocaust tells the often-complicated and difficult story of the Holocaust for adults and younger audiences. The exhibition asks nine important questions, including “What was Jewish life like before the Holocaust?” “What happened to the victims?” and “How did people fight back?”
Never Forget features the story of one Holocaust victim, Norbert Friedman, who survived 11 camps and eventually immigrated to the United States after the Holocaust.
Military subjects will be discussed through the artists and illustrators presenting at the event, including Ray McCoy, Dr. Elizabeth Taylor and Wayne Vansant.
For more than 30 years, Vansant has been writing and illustrating comics and graphic novels on historic and military subjects, beginning with Marvel’s “Savage Tales” and “The Nam.”
The graphic artist served in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War, and graduated from the Atlanta College of Art in 1975.
The event is free. Comics and books will be on display and available for purchase. The artists will be autographing and signing books.
Groups are welcome and guides are available.
For more information, contact Bonnie Davis at 931-635-2060. Morrison Library is located at 138 West Maple Street in Morrison.
