Sad about Beach Bards, though necessary. But let’s find ways to push our love of stories and storytelling.
One of the things I did during our enforced stay at home was finally put decades of unpublished research, writing, and teaching onto a website. This includes a web page on storytelling, with some of the stories I tell and good resources for finding stories (mostly old folktale collections available online). Some of the other pages also have relevant materials. And there is my study of the Legend of Sleeping Bear and other research on Leelanau.
https://picaresquescholar.wordpress.com/storytelling-and-folktales/
I’m not much good at performing into a microphone, but it would be nice to do some kind of beach bard online.