The Wood Magic Story Trail is based up at the Richard Jefferies Museum and is organised by Mike Pringle and Hilda Sheehan, funded by Heritage Lottery. The aim is to share the stories, deeply set in place, with a wider audience of children and 'grown-up children.

A Wood Magic Story Trail

It's 2012 I meet Mike Pringle who is keen to bring people and energy to the museum. He has made a successful grant application to English Heritage and has worked for years to develop some great ideas to engage more people in the museum. We discuss making a story trail for Wood Magic and get very excited about the prospect of children really engaging with the garden: the imagined magical space coming to life again. Mike designs a Kapchack! I find the magic words of Jefferies to create our first storyboard ...


Kapchack is the magpie; and he is king over everything and everybody — over the fly and the wasp, and the finches, and the heron, and the horse, and the rabbit, and the flowers, and the trees. Kapchack, the great and mighty magpie, but,  he is the ugliest creature that ever hopped. The feathers round one eye have all come out and left a bare place, and he is quite blind on the other. Indeed his left eye is gone altogether. His beak is chipped and worn; his wings are so beaten and decayed that he can hardly fly; and there are several feathers out of his tail. He is the most miserable thing you ever saw.


People are visiting, children are coming for stories on Monday August 5th... A Wood Magic Picnic and Storytelling Adventure!

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