“Tell me a story,” is older than language itself. Think of cave painting, as an example, and older still, pantomiming which has morphed into what we experience as theatre today, and dance is certainly one of the oldest forms of storytelling. In whatever form, however, we humans love stories.

Wilson’s guest on Delmarva Today: Writer’s Edition is Jerry Sweeney author of the seven book series The Columbiad . Today Sweeney discusses the fifth book in the series, Comes the Electric Circus, a fictional memoir that takes place in the 1950s. On the surface, the 1950s was felt to be a bland time, a tepid time even.