On Friday, Oct. 27, around 80 people showed up to get spooked out at Bethel’s Yupiit Piciryarait Cultural Center. They came for "Terrifying Tales on the Tundra," an event co-hosted by the Kuskokwim Consortium Library, Southwest Alaska Arts Group, and KYUK.
Bethel staple Bev Hoffman and author Don Rearden served as MCs, and the latter was himself one of seven storytellers that worked hard in the months leading up to the event to craft tales of adventure, the supernatural, and the downright inexplicable on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta (mostly).
In between terrifying tales, local band Velma Lyle took to the stage to play a handful of their own eerily good tunes.
Hosts:
- Bev Hoffman
- Don Rearden
Storytellers (in order of appearance):
- Ian Poole
- Tiana Lupie
- Roxanne Saddler
- Francisco Martinezcuello
- Sugar Henderson
- Eva Malvich
- Don Rearden
Musicians performing as Velma Lyle:
- Paul Basile
- Bethy Whalen
- Lisa Whalen
- Kevin Morgan
- Nate DeHann