'Living Room' Stories Pull Audience Close

The inaugural performance Thursday before a sell-out crowd features stories about decision-making in Afghanistan, hospitalized child 'rock stars,' and one woman's hidden messes.

You can walk by a building a thousand times and think you know it. But Thursday night the Kentish Guard Armory on Peirce Street was transformed into a cozy salon where people gathered for an evening of storytelling. "The Living Room," an organization founded by EG resident Deb Walsh, presented "Volume 1: Beginnings and Endings," stories loosely linked by that theme. There were five story-tellers for this inaugural event, each telling true stories about some aspect of their lives. For Patrick McCrossan, only a few years out of college, it was his tale of muddling through those post-college years of uncertainty, diving into different endeavors looking for the one that truly fit.  Britt Mahrer's story was also about beginning life after …

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