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Kentuckians have long entertained 

each other by stretching the truth to impossibility. Using selections from her oral repertoire and her book, 

Kentucky Folktales: Revealing Stories, Truths, and Outright Lies, 

Hamilton examines the traditional and contemporary uses 

of tall tale telling.

 Explore the heart of the art of storytelling. Using examples from 

her oral and written repertoire,

 Hamilton shines light on what storytelling is and how it functions

 both as a performing art

 and as an essential element 

of everyday life.

Dread, deception, death, and dismemberment — such are the ingredients of tales that have fed Kentucky nightmares for generations.

 In this talk, Hamilton shares sample stories and reveals who told them, who collected them, and how she came to add them to her repertoire and publish them in her book, Kentucky Folktales.