Lifetime Achievement Award
The Lifetime Achievement Award is presented to individuals in the storytelling community who have dedicated their lives to the art form of storytelling and who have demonstrated meritorious service to the National Storytelling Network, as well as to the community of storytellers at large. The individuals who are nominated should be those who have expanded public awareness of the art of storytelling by virtue of their preservation of traditional art forms or the significant originality of their body of work.
1995 |
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1997 |
Doc McConnell
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1998 |
| Jackie Torrence
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Vi Hilbert
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Augusta Baker
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2001 |
| Maggi Peirce
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Gamble Rogers
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2002 |
| Ellin Greene
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Norma Livo
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Gioia Timpanelli
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2003 |
| Linda Goss
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Penninah Schram
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2004 |
Don Doyle
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2005 |
| Anne Pellowski
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Barre Toelken
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Roslyn Bresnick-Perry
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Lynn Rubright
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