Arts
Stranded on a chairlift atop Montage Mountain in Pennsylvania, the Tale Time Crew recount their splendid (and drunken) vacation weekend at Camp Bisco 2019. Despite the fact that the festival ended two weeks prior (leaving our helpless hosts isolated until the mountain reopens come winter) their spirits remain as high as their unfortunate chair-lifted quandary. Luckily Andrew, Jake and Dan never leave home without their podcasting equipment, giving them ample time to record episode 10. This week's tale is titled: "Stories They Won't Tell". It's a riveting true tale of one family's haunting memories of the Lebanese Civil war. The account is written by the talented poet/writer Ashley Bouchahine and appeared in Salon Magazine back in 2011. Ashley is a 28-year-old first-generation Lebanese American figuring her shit out in California. She writes stories about her family's experiences as refugees and immigrants to the United States, and about her own experience of home as a moving target. When she's not writing, she enjoys knitting, rock climbing, pottery, and traveling. At the time of this reading, she is in La Serena, Chile for the solar eclipse. She has two cats, Fred and Milkshake, both of whom she's infinitely proud of.