Now we have the "many splendored" book of memoirs by the well known traditional storyteller and author of "Storytelling in a Nutshell, "(LifeWay Press) Maxine Bersch In it you meet "Mac," child of the mountains, born ninth of ten children. She brings us a book of over 100 original stories that carry the reader from laughter to tears and back again A storyteller's treasure-trove of events that have shaped her life. Exciting the reader's delight and curiosity is brought on by reading such titles as "Tom Fear-No-Man," "Clipped Wings," "One Dark and Stormy Night," etc. Born in 1919, the ninth of ten children, she has woven this storyteller's covering for the decades into a homespun tapestry of many colors that cause you to "look up, laugh, love and lift "