By Caren Creech, Adult & Young Adult Services Assistant
Who is the biggest liar in Kendall County? All will be revealed on Wednesday, July 24 at 7 p.m. when some of the most well-known storytellers from around Texas will compete to be named “The Best Liar” at our annual Kendall County Liars Contest.
If you haven’t attended one of these competitions, you are missing out on great fun. Do you remember reading or listening to “Tall Tales” in school? These are similar. Each masterful storyteller will pull you into a wonderful, plausible story, then lead you over a cliff of hilarity and hijinks.
Bernadette Nason and Donna Ingham of the Tejas Storytelling Association helped us create the Kendall County Liars Contest in 2019. They guide us through the process each year and always participate in the program.
This year we held a Storytelling Workshop in June facilitated by Ingham with support from the Texas Commission on the Arts. We’re hoping some of the workshop participants will return with their newfound storytelling skills and enter this year’s contest.
Attending the Liars Contest is free and it’s a family-friendly event. The program will be held in the library’s community room (451 N. Main Street in Boerne) and is sponsored by the Friends of the Boerne Public Library.
We have several books on Texas tales in the library if you are interested in reading them. “Bloomin’ Tales,” written by Cheri Colburn and beautifully illustrated by Joy Fisher Hein, is a picture book that relates the legends of the different Texas wildflowers. “Tales of Old-Time Texas” is a classic by J. Frank Dobie and on the library shelves. One of our featured storytellers, Ingham, has written several of these books. The most recent is titled “Tales with a Texas Twist: Stories and Folklore from the Lone Star State.”
Other programs coming soon at the library:
- Monday, July 22, Noon: The Reality Readers Book Group will meet in the conference room to discuss the memoir “Tea in Tripoli” by Bernadette Nason.
- Thursday, July 25, 10 a.m.: Mary’s Potpourri Book Group will meet in the conference room to discuss the book “No Matter the Wreckage” by Sarah Kay.
- Thursday, July 25, 1:30 p.m.: The Drawing Club will meet in the conference room.
- Friday, July 26, 10 a.m.: Volunteer Lavada Smith will facilitate an active movement (Qi gong) program in the community room.
Check out the library calendar for a full list of events!
