Alton Chung - Storyteller

Strange Stories of the Pacific Northwest: Fact and Folklore

The Pacific Northwest is a curious place full of oddities, strange stories, and tales of mystery. Why is there a monument dedicated to three Japanese men from the 1830s near the Visitor’s Center at Fort Vancouver? Was the 1947 Maury Island Incident covered up or was it a UFO hoax? Why do chunks of beeswax occasionally wash up on the shores of Oregon? Join storyteller Alton Takiyama-Chung as he guides you on a tour of these and other strange, puzzling, and sometimes bizarre stories from the Pacific Northwest.

Japanese-Korean storyteller Alton Takiyama-Chung, grew up with the superstitions and the magic of the Hawaiian Islands. He tells stories from Hawaii, Asian folktales, ghost stories, stories from the Japanese-Americans experience of WWII, the Plantation Days in Hawaii, and the immigration of the Chinese into the US. He has performed at the Timpanogas and the National Storytelling Festivals, and at international storytelling festivals in the Cayman Islands, Singapore, Vietnam, India, and Thailand. He also is the editor-in-chief of The Story Beast, a storytelling e-Publication (storybeast.org) and a former Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Storytelling Network, the national organization for storytellers in the US. altonchung.com

This performance is available for viewing on FVRLibraries' YouTube Channel June 15–August 31, 2023 at https://www.youtube.com/user/FVRLvirtual.