Stories from the Moon
Nicole Purcell & Joel Geitler

Participants are encouraged to use dry erase boards/other boards to tell a continuous community story. They can write 1 word, 1 symbol, or 10 as they take part in the story of our community's journey to the moon. After the Fair, photos will be taken of the story and posted on a website. We won't give out the web address; instead, people find clues to get to the story at various Fair and social network sites. When they find it, they can comment and let the storytelling continue online.

Joel Gietler is a Providence-based craftsman and artisan.  Descended from a family of Austrian tool smiths and the grandson of the inventor of in-line rubber skates, since childhood he has been working with metal, bone, wood, organic matter, and stone. Joel has perfected an innovative, patented formula for growing beautiful, lightweight stone using aeronautic design cores as a framework for the stone.  He creates everything from staircases to garden sculpture to motorcycle coatings - really, whatever suits your fancy - with his grown stone.  His family, including his fourteen year old son Lance, participates with him in the process for many of his projects.

Nicole Purcell is a Providence based writer, storyteller, and novice seamstress with a lifelong passion for words, fabric, and monkeys.  A native New Englander, Nicole has worked as a fundraising executive for various Providence non-profit organizations since 1997.  She loves taking the experiences other people miss or ignore and telling those stories, creating poetry and personal narratives. She has been published in several magazines, blogs, and online journals and her work - and voice - have been featured on-air at Rhode Island Public Radio.  She is in the process of completing her first novel for publication.   She also designs and creates dresses, skirts, and various household linens and reformulates used clothing - making the old new again.  A type 1 diabetic since she was eight, she wears an insulin pump and is currently designing outfits that incorporate medical devices like her pump.