Rya at rehearsal as the pre-raven narrator of the poem. The Tahoe Yoga & Wellness Center in Truckee donated their events room for an hour.

Quoting the Raven; David Lemmo, who narrates the poem, and Rya Kirby, who plays both the mourner of the Lost Lenore and the bird, itself, rehearsing.

The bird in question; Rya tries on her costume, which she's added to since this rehearsal. One of the rehearsals turned into a performance at the Boys and Girls Club in Kings Beach when twenty-five kids and adults pulled up chairs.

Mr. Padellford's talk on his friendship with Ray Bradbury made for an amusing and enlightening segue into a panel discussion on the creative urge, and finding your own bliss and individuality. Modern Myth curator David Lemmo did a dramatic reading of Bradbury's story Kaleidoscope, and Ohligans, that two person band, rocked the house again.

Amy Edgett continued publicizing our Festival (this article came out on October 30th).

To cap the Museum's month-long exhibit at the Boys and Girls Club of North Tahoe, we took part in the annual Harvest Fest Celebration, hosting the Community Room for children's readings, and viewings of the Museum exhibit.

There are Harvest Festival events every year in the North Tahoe area; the Boys and Girls Club hosted booths, a DJ, weird games and other activities in a giant gymnasium, with a Haunted House in the classroom areas and, this October, an exhibit of the Museum of Modern Mythology and Pop Culture, in the Community Room.

There were plenty of games, music and food for everyone, and for a while, the kids could immerse themselves into fantasy and myth.

There was an amazing whirl of activity going on individually and all at once.

Skeleton costumes have always been a favorite of young children, and this boy seems to be contemplating another piece of cake.

This kid's got the right idea, considering all of the goodies there was to eat.

The din was sometimes deafening, what with the music going, and kids running around yelling and having a great time.

The Community Room was open for Halloween readings, and viewing of the exhibit of the Museum of Modern Mythology and Pop Culture.

The Museum's curator talking on the connections between modern mythological archetypes and the ancient archetypes of world myth.

An electrically revived-from-the-dead Lon Chaney Jr depicted on a movie poster, from the movie The Indestructible Man.

Basil Gogos illustration of Fredric March as the evil half of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, from an issue of Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine.

Dracula has taken many forms since 1897; this cartoonish version graces the cover sleeve of a record album of monster and halloween sounds.

Talk about being in a jam; this item-detail is from a movie one-sheet of a film titled Valley of the Dragons, based loosely on a story by Jules Verne.

Boris Karloff lurking about, from the movie The Black Room.

What a whopper of a feud and fight this was, right up there with the Capulets vs. the Montagues, the McCoys vs. the Hatfields, and Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier.

Sir Christopher Lee made several Fu Manchu movies in the middle to late 1960s.

Part of a wall of Museum items on display.

Spooky readings for the kids. Their reaction? They wanted something more gory. The reader told them the story behind the Dracula myth, beginning with the 15th Century Romanian warlord Vlad Tepes. They liked the parts about how he impaled people with whom he was annoyed, and chopped off heads, sticking them up on pikes. Nice family fun.

Back in the gymnasium, the festival is rockin' on.

Tiger girl trying to make sense of all the ruckus.

Hey, where's the candy I stashed in the hat?

Lots of food and goodies were consumed.

Another skeleton costume, this boy taking in the activity around him.

Where did they get those bales of hay?

With so many goodies to choose from, I hope someone brought the Alka-Seltzer.

I wonder how many kids this lady made-up in the 3 hour festival?

There was lots of great Mexican food, and the adults managed to have a good time.

We left the festival at 6:30, saying our goodbyes to Joe Taylor, who had another hour and a half to go.

Back in Truckee, we went to Truckee Book and Bean, where the last Friday night event of the October Country Festival was already in progress.

Outside of Truckee Book & Bean, we were greeted by a young neighbor from across the street, who wanted his costume photographed. Poet/Professor June Saraceno had finished her talk and discussion on the roots of poetry in myth, and was leaving as we were going into the bookstore/coffee shop.

David Lemmo telling friend Rene Hollis about the festival, and securing the best seats in the place.

Artist Kriston Prator of Tahoe Expressions exhibited his leather masks, talked about the mythological aspects of his creations, and told some great ghost stories and UFO encounters.

One of Kriston's masks, with dangling price-tag.

Aaron Oropeza provided the music for this last Friday night October Country event at Truckee Book and Bean; when more people showed up, we had to pull out the folding chairs.

Aaron does rock, folk, and blues, and with his harmonica has a Bob Dylan quality. The ladies are ga-ga over him.

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