SEARCHING
FOR HEROES
TWO Stories by Storyteller Sue O'Halloran
Complete with an audio-CD and discussion guide
SEARCHING
FOR HEROES is the title of a new storytelling audio-CD
produced by Angels Studio and written and told by storyteller
Sue O’Halloran. The production contains two original
stories about dealing with race and making a difference.
DAD’S STORY is a personal ‘coming of age’
story in 1960s Chicago. THE OBERLIN RESCUE OF 1858 is a
little-known historical story of a community in Ohio that
took a stand for racial justice.
DAD’S
STORY is a moving, sometimes funny account of Sue’s
hero-worship of her dad when she was growing up in a neighborhood
surrounded and challenged by racial change. She weaves together
the story of pride in her dad -- who pushed her to be a
risk-taker -- and of his days as a teacher in an all-Black
high school on Chicago’s southside. Sue tells of the
event that changed it all -- when her dad’s racism
was revealed, and her heart changed --- on the day that
Dr. Martin Luther King was shot dead. These vivid events
are remembered as Sue tends her dying father. She asks the
larger questions that also touch any listener : how can
we be reconciled to someone we love who remains a bigot?
How do we work through this dilemma?
THE
OBERLIN RESCUE OF 1858 is a dramatic story that
recreates a little know historical event when white residents
of Oberlin, Ohio came to the rescue of John Price who had
escaped slavery in the time of the U.S. Fugitive Slave Act.
Sue’s retelling of this story invites the listener
to look at the realities of that time in a new and honest
way, as well as enslavement then, and all the vestiges that
have remained. There are many discussion questions, suggested
assignments resources and bibliography listed in the companion
booklet inside the CD case about THE OBERLIN RESCUE OF 1858
and DAD’S STORY, enabling the listener to explore
the background to these stories as well as finding ways
to “listen to” their own stories, attitudes
and behaviors.
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