Fugitive Stories @ Old Frog Pond Farm

Name: Fugitive Stories @ Old Frog Pond Farm
Start: 2025-08-17T15:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-08-17T16:30:00-04:00
Location: Old Frog Pond Farm

Schedule

Sun Aug 17 2025 at 03:00 pm to 04:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Old Frog Pond Farm | Harvard, MA

Fugitive Stories and Old Frog Pond Farm in Harvard are partnering again for four afternoons on the farm. August’s theme is “Epiphany.”
$15/online • $20/door
Online sales end at noon on the event date. Plenty of tickets at the door.
Seating starts at 2:30pm. Storytelling starts at 3pm. We recommend purchasing tickets in advance. This is an outdoor event (weather permitting).
If the weather is extreme, we will be presenting at Five Sparks in Harvard. If light rain is forecast, we’ll all stay nice and dry under a number of canopies. Please visit this calendar listing by noon on the day of the show for updates.
Please put Old Frog Pond Farm, Harvard, in your GPS. (The street address sometimes take you to the other side of the woods.)
ABOUT OUR CO-HOST, OLD FROG POND FARM
Old Frog Pond Farm is a 25-acre farm in Harvard and one of the few Certified Organic Orchards in Massachusetts. In the fall they open for pick your own apples and raspberries. Every year, the farm hosts an Annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit and gathers for Plein Air Poetry.
Visitors to the farm can purchase a ticket to take a self-guided tour around the pond and through the woods discovering the sculpture, native plants, and abundant wildlife that’s makes their home here. The self-serve farm stand is filled with fresh certified organic produce. [email protected]
FEATURED FUGITIVE TELLERS
In addition to several local, hand-picked tellers, Fugitive brings regional, award-winning storytellers (see below).
Susanne Schmidt
Susanne is a comedic storyteller and a producer for The Moth. Her work has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning, National Public Radio and HBO’s Inspiration Room.
Robin Schoenthaler
Robin has been a storyteller for about a decade and has been with Fugitive since 2018. In 2019 she won a Moth Grand Slam Championship and she is never going to stop talking about it — ever. She is also an award-winning essayist — mostly about love, loss, life, death, and Covid. Robin’s day job for 28 years was as a cancer doctor with MGH at Emerson Hospital in their Department of Radiation Oncology. She now helps people with second opinions about their cancers while she travels the world. Learn more about Robin at www.DrRobin.org.
Susan Cohn-Child
Susan is a bit of everything. She sings alto in a choir (though she’s a little bitter that she can no longer sing soprano), is a devoted member of a book group for 18 years, is a world traveler when funds and time allow, and is a daughter, a sister, a spouse, and mother of two aspiring adults. She wrote her first story in 2018 and hasn’t looked back. Susan has told stories at The Moth, is a feature teller at Fugitive Stories, and is a Massmouth audience pick winner. She loves the authenticity of the story telling community and the connections that storytelling creates between people
Rachel Gans-Boriskin
Rachel is a partner at NOVL, a strategic management consulting firm specializing in workforce development. A former Communications Professor, she has performed at many storytelling venues in the Boston area including GBH’s “Stories from the Stage.” She lives in Central Mass with her husband, two children, seven chickens, two cats, and two neurotic Pomeranians.
Meg Stafford
Meg is an award-winning author of two memoirs — They are Topic of Cancer: Riding the Waves of the Big C, and Who Will Accompany You? My Mother-Daughter Journeys Far From Home and Close to the Heart — a columnist and observer of humans’ and animals’ delightful quirks, and was a featured teller on GBH’s “Stories from the Stage.” A social worker in private practice for many years, she hears powerful stories on a regular basis and always appreciates the connective tissue that telling our truths creates. And, she embraces the notion that the shortest distance between two people is a laugh. Meg can be reached at http://www.MegStafford.com.