Downloads for Grownups

Jay grew up in a neighborhood of Boston called Pill Hill. His creaky old house, a tree that was seven realms high, and an aunt who directed amateur plays with a sherry flask in hand inspired these stories.

 Jay O'Callahan grew up in a neighborhood called Pill Hill because so many doctors lived there. The magical house and grounds and the dramas of his lively neighbors inspired these colorful stories about Norwegians in the attic, a sausage dog who spoke only Portuguese, salmon in the bathtub and the delicious mystery of x.

Pouring the Sun, is the story of an immigrant woman, Ludvika Moskal, who like the molten metal in a blast furnace is transformed into steel. For Ludvika the fires are many; immigration at 18, raising a family in the poverty of a steel-making city, fear of reprisal for standing up to injustice. Ludvika, her family, the whole steel making community of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, built the great cities of this land.

This story written by Jay O'Callahan lets you experience the plight of the ocean. In "The Spirit of the Great Auk", he recreates Dick Wheeler's 1500 mile kayak voyage from Newfoundland to Buzzards Bay. Time Magazine called Dick "A Hero of the Planet" for his important message.

A father-son Pill Hill story; the boiling inner world of a boy coming to manhood.

A two cassette or two cd sequel to Coming Home to Someplace New: The Pill Hill Stories.

 These stories were performed and recorded live at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee in October 2000 and 2002. Glasses is a story about how the war ends for a seven year old boy. It's a story of a little boy who is always breaking his glasses and just about everything else. Sometimes things need to be broken before they can become whole again. Politics is a story of a wild adventure that is to seal a friendship for a lifetime.

Jay O'Callahan creates a theatre for the mind. Four enchanting stories of love, courage and comedy.