Master storyteller and award-winning performer Dolores Hydock will be spinning yarns and telling tales in the Pell City Library at noon Aug. 17 as a part of the library’s Wild and Wonderful gathering.  Expect stories fashioned with imagination, sparked by the lure of wanderlust and the wide-open road as she presents “Novel Destinations — Stories of Side Roads and Speed Bumps” in this magical journey.  In one story, two women find a startling surprise hidden in the hills of Rome.  In another, travelers share secrets on a Spanish train.  Another story comes at the end of a long day’s journey, and the final story takes a curious route back home.  Hydock’s stories are magical and with each lilt and intonation, one is easily lured and captured in the web she spins.

Originally from Reading, Pennsylvania, Hydock discovered the love of performance at an early age.  At the age of 5, she survived (unscathed) her performance as the Statue of Liberty in a pond aboard a float, wearing a twenty-pound electrically charged crown! Hydock has performed throughout the United States at concerts, festivals, churches, schools, and various other venues.  She currently tours and performs for the Alabama State Council of the Arts and is a speaker for the Alabama Humanities Foundation.  Her seven CDs of original stories have all received Resource Awards from Storytelling World Magazine.  As an actress, she has performed the one-woman plays “Shirley Valentine,” “Fully Committed,” “Talking Heads” and various others.  In her spare time, she enjoys gardening — tending blueberries, pomegranates and muscadines in Birmingham, where she resides. She also enjoys teaching Cajun and zydeco dancing, and is a founding member of ACME, Birmingham’s Association of Cajun Music Enthusiasts.

The program on Wednesday is part of the library’s Adult Summer Reading program, and the library’s ongoing Wild and Wonderful Wednesday series.  It is free and open to the public, and light refreshments will be served afterwards.  It is one of the season’s best offerings, and a program that you will not want to miss.