The 2009 Daniel Crowley Storytelling Concert: Report from Grimes Creek after a Hard Winter: Stories of an Idaho Family

Abstract

Spend a marvelous evening with Rosalie Sorrels, who comes from a long line of Westerners, most of them extraordinary artists in media that include music, building, farming, gardening, and words. Her grandfather so loved literature that he even swore at his horses in Shakespearean language. Her mother, Nancy Stringfellow, wrote intense and brilliant memoirs. Rosalie says her family's wealth was the "knowledge of how to make something out of nothing." Her father built the cabin on Grimes Creek, thirty miles from Boise, where Rosalie lives now, a place whose logs "glow with the life invested in them." Her mother created a garden so long-lasting that even now, "everywhere you put your foot, a cloud of fragrance envelopes you."