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Marjorie
Moore Shaefer |
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WHERE ARE WE NOW |
Marjorie has lived in the Detroit Area of Michigan for 39 years.
As a Girl Scout training director, she was on a special project team
which provided summer day camps with local leaders for girls in inner
city schools after the riots; also co-authored the first ecology badge
and workbooks.
Then she married a man from Ypsilanti, fourth generation owner of a
hardware store, which they closed in the mid seventies due to the demise
of "downtown". He is also an Episcopal Clergyman, and was called
to a church in Dexter, a small town west of Ann Arbor. There they
raised four children, and Marjorie earned a masters degree in Early
Childhood Education, then taught kindergarten, ran a pre-school, and
taught adult ed. in the GM plant at Willow Run. That is when she
discovered storytelling.
Marjorie has told stories at schools, lighthouses, historical societies,
senior centers, and Churches. She has been seen as
Mother Goose at fairs and festivals; including the
Detroit Festival of the Arts and the Children's Hospital cancer
survivors family picnic.
Marjorie has told stories in Hell (Michigan) and in Paradise at the
Wild Blueberry Festival (where you can find her again this year).
She directed the Renaissance Storytelling Festival at Wayne State
University in Detroit, where she also taught storytelling. Marjorie
leads docent tours for the Cathedral Church of St. Paul (Episcopal), a
stone cathedral built in the early 13th century Gothic style.
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