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Tales of Technology: Storytellers Reflect on Grandparents Storytelling Day Event - Held 11am, Saturday, 27th September 2014

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One year ago, a muse by the name of Judy emerged from the rubble of walkie talkies, rotary phones, stone tablets, typewriters and other forgotten communication technologies to declare that the 27th September 2014 would be Grandparents Storytelling Day...at least as far as Mentone Public Library was concerned!  It would be a day to compare the old with the new and find out where the age of technology was truly taking us in so far as how we communicate with each other. Unbeknownst to us, it would also coincide with the other holiest day of the year on the Melbourne Australia calendar; Grand Final Day!  Yet, despite a humble gathering of congregants to our library, an enthralling day of tales and discussion was held. Here is the day in pictures and thoughts from a few of our tellers... Judy Sullivan Having arrived at this ripe old age... 'as old as my tongue and a little bit older than my teeth',(as my mother used to say and is that a good idea for another session..