Click on an image to see a larger version. Every year I wonder how Brian Bemel will top the previous year's festival, and every year he brings in a lineup of storytellers that knocks me out. I get a very low percentage of keepers when photographing this festival, because I cannot concentrate on photography when these tellers have me laughing or crying or laughing to keep from crying. This year's tellers were Barbara McBride Smith, Donald Davis, Bill Harley, Billy Jonas, Diane Ferlatte, Sheila Kay Adams, and Carmen Deedy.