Digital Albums

 Jay O'Callahan grew up in a neighborhood called Pill Hill because so many doctors lived there. The magical house and grounds and the dramas of his lively neighbors inspired these colorful stories about Norwegians in the attic, a sausage dog who spoke only Portuguese, salmon in the bathtub and the delicious mystery of x.

Pouring the Sun, is the story of an immigrant woman, Ludvika Moskal, who like the molten metal in a blast furnace is transformed into steel. For Ludvika the fires are many; immigration at 18, raising a family in the poverty of a steel-making city, fear of reprisal for standing up to injustice. Ludvika, her family, the whole steel making community of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, built the great cities of this land.

Magical berries! Can they change an unlucky farmers life? Sad Simon is just about to lose hope when a small present makes a big difference. A juicy and delicious story for the whole family. Raspberries was first heard nationally on National Public Radio and has since become one of Jay's classic stories.

*The Silver Stream: The song-filled story of an impressionable young rabbit's search for the wondrous Silver Stream. Music by David Gay. 

This story written by Jay O'Callahan lets you experience the plight of the ocean. In "The Spirit of the Great Auk", he recreates Dick Wheeler's 1500 mile kayak voyage from Newfoundland to Buzzards Bay. Time Magazine called Dick "A Hero of the Planet" for his important message.

Ferdinand Magellan chose to take Antonio Pigafetti, a gentleman from Vincenza, with him to chronicle his daring sea voyages. This is Antonio's story of Magellan's dramatic voyage to solve the riddle of the Western passage.

A father-son Pill Hill story; the boiling inner world of a boy coming to manhood.

A two cassette or two cd sequel to Coming Home to Someplace New: The Pill Hill Stories.

 These stories were performed and recorded live at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee in October 2000 and 2002. Glasses is a story about how the war ends for a seven year old boy. It's a story of a little boy who is always breaking his glasses and just about everything else. Sometimes things need to be broken before they can become whole again. Politics is a story of a wild adventure that is to seal a friendship for a lifetime.

Jay O'Callahan creates a theatre for the mind. Four enchanting stories of love, courage and comedy.