Let’s Tell Legends and Stories: Aimee and the Mermaid


On this episode of Let’s Tell Legends and Stories, Annie Conger narrates the story “Aimee and the Mermaid.”

Aimee goes to the Kotzebue Lagoon hoping to catch some white fish for her family, which is suffering through a year of poor hunting and fishing. Instead, her net catches something much more dangerous.

Credits:

Thank you to Annie Conger who narrated this story, and to the anonymous writer who contributed “Broken Arrow” to KNOM.

Music for this episode came from FreeMusicArchive.org: “Poor Wayfaring Stranger” and “Light Touch” by Podington Bear (CC).

Audio for sound effects came from FreeSound.org: “3 Scrapes” by Eelke (CC), “Water Splash” by Soundscalpel.com (CC), and “Footsteps in Water” by Krisboruff.

Yaayuk Alvanna-Stimpfle, Vera Metcalf, and Katya Wassillie voiced the introduction to this program in Inupiaq, St. Lawrence Island Yupik, and Yup’ik, respectively. The introduction music is excerpted from “Together In The Empty” (Dexter Britain) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.

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