StoryTown Radio

Voices from the Archive: Rose Marie Shields

Episode Summary

In this month's Voices from the Archive, we hear from Rose Marie Shields, a longtime teacher. If you talk to her students, they’ll tell you that anybody would be lucky to be in class with her. That she has shaped them in ways that are still with them today. And today, we get to have class with Mrs. Shields. In today’s class with Mrs. Shields we’ll shoot for four lessons, including, I think, the best thing we can learn. Voices from the Archive is a monthly segment of StoryTown Radio. It shares stories from people living here, just how they told them. You might think of it like a news report that tells you about all sorts of things. From ghost stories to apple butter, you could learn just about anything from the people living here in East Tennessee. Listen in as they tell the stories of their lives here in Appalachia. StoryTown Radio is a production of the McKinney Center's Story Initiative. Grounded in the belief that stories connect people to each other, the Story Initiative sets out to collect, archive, and share the stories from the region. Broadcast from Jonesborough, Tennessee, the Storytelling Capital of the World, StoryTown Radio is one way these stories are shared with people, nearby and all around.

Episode Notes

In this month's Voices from the Archive, we hear from Rose Marie Shields, a longtime teacher. If you talk to her students, they’ll tell you that anybody would be lucky to be in class with her. That she has shaped them in ways that are still with them today. And today, we get to have class with Mrs. Shields. In today’s class with Mrs. Shields we’ll shoot for four lessons, including, I think, the best thing we can learn.

Voices from the Archive is a monthly segment of StoryTown Radio. It shares stories from people living here, just how they told them. You might think of it like a news report that tells you about all sorts of things. From ghost stories to apple butter, you could learn just about anything from the people living here in East Tennessee. Listen in as they tell the stories of their lives here in Appalachia.

StoryTown Radio is a production of the McKinney Center's Story Initiative. Grounded in the belief that stories connect people to each other, the Story Initiative sets out to collect, archive, and share the stories from the region. Broadcast from Jonesborough, Tennessee, the Storytelling Capital of the World, StoryTown Radio is one way these stories are shared with people, nearby and all around.

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Storyteller: Rose Marie Shields

Story Collector: Lynda Harris

Editors: Isaac Wood, Anne G'Fellers-Mason, Bre Walker-Schadler, Theresa Hammons, Skye McFarland

Narrator: Isaac Wood

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Sponsors:

Tennessee Arts Commission (https://tnartscommission.org/)

Trivia with Budds

The Silver Raven

Mountain Empire Cremation and Burial Service

The Wild Women of Jonesborough

McKinney Center (mckinneycenter.com)