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DOWNS — If you think the grasshoppers in your yard this summer were big this year – tell us about them! This vintagepostcards.org photo has a story to go along with it for sure. Check out the Tall Tales preliminary contest for tellers to be held Saturday, Oct. 8, at 7 p.m. at the Lutheran Fellowship Hall, 1019 Blunt St., Downs.

All the stories told at the Oct. 8 Tall Tale Contest in Downs will be true — except for the parts that aren’t. Participants in the contest will not only invite you to listen and be entertained, they’ll draw you into their tall tales as they compete to appear on stage at the Kansas Storytelling Festival.

Come help us sort it out. Winners of the Tall Tale preliminaries are chosen by audience vote and a panel of judges. Like Wikipedia says, “A tall tale is a story with unbelievable elements, related as if it were true and factual. Some stories such as these are exaggerations of actual events …”

The Tall Tale preliminaries are held on the second Saturday of October. Amateur storytellers come together with their best tall tale story prepared to try to outdo each other to get into the Kansas Storytelling Festival in April.

For more information, call (785) 454-6648 or email [email protected].

The public is welcome to attend.