Adella Adella the Storyteller, lives in New Orleans. She travels extensively around the U.S. telling stories. People no longer sit and talk the way they should.
TV is there, families no longer sit at a table and have dinner and talk.
I think that through storytelling we can rebuild that much needed human interaction that is missing within a family, within a community. I also do storytelling to help the young people express themselves, to use it in a lot of folklore from their particular tradition, to get a sense of where people are in terms of ethnic groups. It's like a return to the source. With the older people it's like they're reflecting on where they've been. In bringing the old and the young together, it's a way of merging the old with what is now - what has happened with what's happening in the present.