• 1: Home - Ellouise's New Front Porch
• 2: Events
  • 2.1: Kensington Salon Youth Storytelling Showcase
  • 2.2: Kensington Row Story Salon
• 3: Adult Programs and Workshops
  • 3.1: List - Adult Programs
    • 3.1.1: Pushing Boundaries - ERA
    • 3.1.2: Flesh on Old Bones
    • 3.1.3: 10,000 Miles to Home
    • 3.1.4: Uncommon Threads
    • 3.1.5: Second Hand Rose
    • 3.1.6: Your Name is Your First Story
    • 3.1.7: Ripples on the Water
    • 3.1.8: Patchwork
    • 3.1.9: Wise Women - Folktales for Adults
    • 3.1.10: Haunts
    • 3.1.11: Rogues and Lovers
• 4: Senior Communities
• 5: College-Womens Studies
  • 5.1: Popular Women's Studies Programs
• 7: Grade School and Family Programs
  • 7.1: Grade School and Family Program List
• 9: Ellouise's Blog
• 10: Media Kit
• 11: Contact

Ellouise's New Front Porch

"Ellouise Schoettler's work reminds us of what is best about being human: deep emotion, strong values, unfailing courage, and gratitude to those who have gone before.

An uncommon artist."

— Elizabeth Ellis, Storyteller

Ellouise Schoettler's North Carolina accent is genuine just like the childhood Sundays she spent listening to aunts and uncles spin tales on Granny's front porch. But she's NOT a typical old-style southern teller.

A professional storyteller for nearly twenty years, Ellouise creates stories that offer audiences a new kind of front porch experience.

Ellouise's New Front Porch is where entertainment meets Cultural Preservation, an experience that leaves Ellouise's audience awakened to the importance of their own personal and family stories.

On this New Front Porch, Ellouise's surprising combinations of original and traditional stories blend with primary source historical research, personal political experience and family story to give voice to the uncommon experience of ordinary men and women throughout American history.

Voices that would otherwise never be heard. Stories audiences remember.

Contact Ellouise to book the New Front Porch experience for venues as intimate as an independent bookseller's reading room or as bustling as a large storytelling festival.

Adults. Teens. Children. Senior Facility residents. Audiences of all ages are drawn to Ellouise's New Front Porch experience.

Story choices can be tailored by specific age ranges or for students with specific curriculum needs.