The Appalachian Shanachie and Oral Storytelling
Reading Time: 4 minutesYou can still hear them sometimes—those old voices. They live in stories passed across porches, handed from generation to generation, without being written down. Before people thought to call themselves storytellers, they just told. And someone else remembered. Back in Gaelic lands, those voices had a name: Shanachie. Shanachie was the memory-keeper of the clan. The person who carried the […]
