Programs

A Remarkable Talent

Karen Pillsworth has been enchanting audiences all over the Northeast with her stories for over 25 years.

She has performed in libraries, camps, churches, parks, schools, historic sites and at festivals. She is regularly features at Mohonk Mountain House and has shared her stories on WAMC National Public Radio.

Karen performs each summer throughout New York State for the library’s summer reading programs. She tailors the program to the theme each year. Some of her programs include:

• Stories from Stones… Stone Soup and a Little Bit More --
  Summer Reading Program 2009
• Spiders, Bugs and Toads… Oh My!
• Discovering the Stories within Us - a program for grown-ups searching for their own stories
• The Storytelling Classroom
• Stortytelling in Emergent Literacy
• New York…..Read, White and Blue
• Picture This, Imagine That
• Tune In to the Oldies
• A Time for Stories
• Books…….a Treasure
• Get a Clue at Your Library
• Spiders, Snakes and Mice… Oh My!

In 1994, Karen was selected as a National Arts Education Fellow for her storytelling program, "There’s No Place Like Home: Stories of the Hudson Valley and Catskill Mountains." In 2002 she was appointed the Storyteller Laureate of the city of Kingston, NY.