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Liz Montague teaches folklore at Salt Lake Community College. Here are several quotes from her that I wrote down at USG's StoryFest 2006. March 4, 2006
"The goal of storytelling is to come to the truth not to be given the truth.
"Stories were once as important to survival as the hoe.
"Living is a messy business.
"Stories are how our value systems are shaped.
"We know who we are when we know where we come from.
"It is hard to see family stories because they don't stand out to us–they seem so ordinary to us.
"Realize the ordinary is extraordinary
"Is it a story that keeps getting repeated? Does it eventually take on some structural form?
"Family stories have recurring themes.
"The power of story is to create hope.
"Stories are a way to explain the unexplainable.
"The stories that are woven into us tell us we can survive hard things.
"Stories allow us to share our humanity.
"Folklore is part history, part anthropology, part literature."
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