WINTER

There are plenty of accomplished sportswriters, newspaper reporters, book authors, labor union leaders, New York City officials, university administrators, theater presidents, elected aldermen and basketball announcers, but probably just one who is all of the above. Retired now and living in Portland Edward Hershey draws from these endeavors and more in the stories he tells. His memoir, “The Scorekeeper,” was a finalist for the Oregon Award.

No one was more surprised than Juliana Person when she was plucked from the audience at a Guild show in 2017 to tell a story. The stage turned out to be far less terrifying than she expected, and Juliana has been at it ever since. She favors personal tales drawn from her childhood, adventures and misadventures outdoors and abroad, experiences as a cancer survivor, and a guy she met on a dating site. Married now, they live in Newberg with one human
housemate and two feline overlords.

Born in a mud and wattle hut near the Irish Sea, storyteller William Kennedy Hornyak first heard tales upon the knee of his grandfather William Butler Yeats. Humbly plying his trade at market places and crossroads Will was vaulted into notoriety in 1986 as the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Oral Literature. He lives in Milwaukie, Oregon but resides primarily in his imagination where facts rarely intrude upon a
good story.