Storytelling festival is Friday at U of L

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Family-friendly stories and spooky tales are on the program for this year’s Corn Island Storytelling Festival at the University of Louisville.

The festival runs from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. EDT Friday on the Natural Sciences Lawn at the university’s Belknap Campus. Col. Bob Thompson of the Kentucky Homefront radio program serving as master of ceremonies.

There’s also a fall festival for children from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. with arts and craft activities as well as a hay bale maze.

Bring lawn chairs or blankets and flashlights.

The festival is named after Louisville’s first settlement. The festival ran for three decades before ending in 2007. Organizers and U of L revived the event last year.

For more information, visit http://uofl.me/cornisland2014 .

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