{"id":28,"date":"2026-08-01T20:45:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T20:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storyspinning.net\/?page_id=28"},"modified":"2026-08-18T20:03:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T20:03:31","slug":"elementor-28","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/storyspinning.net\/","title":{"rendered":"Story Spinning Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The Life Work of<\/span><\/p>

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Storyspinning\u2014<\/i>the term Loralee has used to describe her work since the early 1980s\u2014is her professional \u201cmoniker.\u201d\u00a0 For her, it incorporates all kinds of spoken story, from traditional folk tales to ballads, and even nursery rhymes and poetry, as well as a story that comes out of today\u2019s newspaper.\u00a0 Having lived in several regions of the United States, she incorporates folklore and family stories from her home state of Illinois, plus such areas as Arizona, where she began her professional work as a storyteller, including the Legend of the Bells of Tumacacori.\u00a0 Stories of the Celtic tradition are also favorites, and well as the lore of the country of Georgia.\u00a0 And in 2011 her book \u2018Island Child\u201d was published, which tells of the first 10 years in the life of Barack Obama, complete with remarkably lovely and well-researched illustrations by the Canadian artist Jillian Gilliland.<\/i><\/span><\/strong>

It was with Loralee\u2019s guidance\u2013and the help of many other Atlanta-based storytellers\u2013that the Southern Order of Storytellers was launched in 1982, along with the Olde Christmas Storytelling Festival, which made its debut in January 1983, at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center.<\/i><\/span><\/strong>

Having lost her husband, Ed, Loralee Cooley lives in New Mexico, the \u201cLand of Enchantment.\u201d She\u2019s still sorting through memorabilia and artifacts saved for years\u00a0 to share with those who treasure such things.<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Loralee Cooley<\/strong><\/span>
2331 Westside Blvd SE, Apt 231
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