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~About Fiona

The daughter of a Welsh~American Lawyer and a British actress.
Fiona spent the first decade of her life
calling places as diverse as Yokohama, Japan
and Orleans, France, home. However,
by the time Fiona was ten years old, home
had become a small village outside Canterbury, Kent, where she
lived with her mother and her stepfather, David Frauenfelder,
who worked at the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury.
From there, Fiona was sent to boarding school, to receive a "jolly good education".
In the household in which Fiona grew, being gifted in speech, wasn't a luxury.
It was a requirement. Daily rituals of mimicking
"Beyond the Fringe" skits, or various and wonderful guests practicing their lines around the house, was the
norm.
And on visits to her father in Paris, the classics, poetry
and the art of argument were discovered. The annual 'Charades' games played in the
Powell/Page/Frauenfelder household were vicious plays with Latin quotes and obscure literary references.

By the time Fiona reached the age of sixteen, her future seemed set. The choice seemed to be between
performance and production.
So naturally, Fiona chose to become a wife, mother and Shepherd!
After a career in Agriculture, working in Somerset, Wales and Scotland, Fiona moved with her four
children to the USA. Only to discover that her knowledge of sheep was not appreciated...but her ability to
play the fool with a Somerset accent, or translate herself into a crone were! Fiona promptly turned her
hobby of folklore into a career, and her career into a hobby.
Fiona returns to the British Isles every year, spending most of her time in her beloved Wales, where she
studies the folkways of her ancestors.
Fiona, who is Welsh and of Scots descent, specialises in tales from Wales and Wessex, Cornish 'piskie'
tales, and Scots 'brownie' stories.

Fiona Siobhan Powell

~ Folklorist and Storyteller

Mail:
Fiona S. Powell
3336B Rte 405
Milton,
Pennsylvania, USA 17847

Contact Fiona ~

Phone: 570 522 6586

e mail :
fionasiobhan@yahoo.com