Greetings from Madison, Wisconsin We are on our way to Wisconsin Dells where we will be hosting the 2nd FOTR (Families on the Road) Rally. We spent most of...
Greetings from Kansas City, Missouri, What has six legs and six wheels, and makes people of all ages laugh? If you guessed a junebug trying to steal a pair of...
Greetings from Washington D.C. We finally did it -- we biked the length of the C & O Canal, running from Cumberland, MD. to Washington, DC. Not only that, but...
Greetings from Massachusetts, The Act!vated Storytellers are crisscrossing the country faster than ever these days, having discovered the modern miracle of air...
Greetings from Cape Cod, The Muse has finally found us! No, we don't mean that we've just now been struck with inspiration; we've always felt pretty inspired. ...
Greetings from Niagara Falls, Fall has fallen upon us, and our busy summer schedule has come to an end, and now we are presenting shows and residency programs...
Greetings from Washington D.C, We've just put the wraps on the month of October, which was a rather busy time -- not just for performances and workshops (we...
Greetings from Greensboro, NC, Winter is inching in upon us, but by a strange coincidence, we're inching our way south. (Good thing, because for some reason...
Greetings from Orlando, Florida, Oh, the states we've been in! There are 45 of them now, because in December we added a notch for Georgia, putting in a 3-day...
Greetings from Austin, Texas, Actually, we may have to check a road sign to make certain that's where we are, because we've traversed so many states in the...
Greetings from Reno, Nevada! Last month, you may recall, we came to you from Austin, TX. Since then, we've zipped through Abilene (where we dropped in at the...
If you ever wanted see the show live, we will be broadcasting today at 3:30 and 7:00 PDT (California time) http://activated-storytellers.com/theatre.html Come...
Five days ago, when my mother asked me to write something for the Laugh and Learn Ledger, I had no idea what I was going to write. Here, now, I still have no...
Aloha! Yes, we've just returned from our week in Hawaii, which was not only a vacation, but also a fact-finding mission. We'd like very much to add our 50th...
Greetings! July is here (hope everyone had a Happy Fourth), and that means our summer tour is in full swing. During the month of June, we survived excruciating...
Greetings from Lancaster, Pennsylvania! As August begins, we enter the last leg of our summer tour, which during July took us from Quincy, IL to Philadelphia,...
Special announcement! We will be streaming two multicultural folktales as they are performed tonight. The show includes American Sign Language and physical...
Our summer library season is over, and we are ready to begin touring to schools in the fall. But in between the two, we took some time off to take a 10-day,...
Have you ever told a whopper? Even if you're one of the rare people who haven't, you've no doubt heard your share of them in your time. In contemporary...
Some good friends of ours are about to have a mini-series about their life as a Family on the Road premiere on TLC on October 29th. They travel in an RV...
The leaves are falling, and we're heading south as the nation stops carving jack-o-lanterns out of pumpkins and starts baking them into pies for Thanksgiving....
If it's winter, we must be in Florida. We spent the entire month of December in Tallahassee where, while making preparations for our new production for next...
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May is the month for mothers; not only is the second Sunday of the month Mother's Day (May 10 this year), but the first day of the month is Mother Goose Day. A...
Is that summer coming down the pike? Yes it is, and we're getting ready for our annual summer tour, which this time literally takes us coast to coast: we begin...
Dear Kimberly and Dennis, Today's show exceeded expectations! My son, Ryan said, "It was a dream come true!" It is so special that you took the time to work...
Ghosts and ghouls and goblins, oh my. The haunting season is upon us again, and schools are again becoming familiar haunts for students and teachers - and...