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By NAOMI SMOOT
Rappahannock News Intern
Last Wednesday Aransas the storyteller performed at the Rappahannock Library.
Aransas described himself as “A poet, a writer, a teacher, a clown,” and many other things.
Among his stories was one about how he got started as an entertainer.
He told the audience that he had always wanted to be a writer. When he was in his teens he started working on a novel about Russia during World War 111. Aransas soon realized how very little he knew about the subject and stopped working on the book.
For the next 15 years he wrote short stories. Only one of these ever got sold however.
Then on July 4, 1975, he decided to try telling his stories as opposed to writing them down. “It rained on July 4, 1975,” he remembered.
Thus he found himself on the steps of a bank across from UVA inviting passersby to come in out of the rain and listen to his stories. Six people took him up on his offer and he made a total of seven cents that day.
But where did the name Aransas come from?
According to another story the name came from the Aransas Wildlife Refuge in Texas where he was supposedly found. He said that the sheriff who found him wanted to name him after the place he had come from. “With a little sense of humor I could have been called Wildlife Refuge,” he laughed.
Aransas told the group another story about the Wildlife Refuge as
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