Palm Beach Post's Storytellers on Holidays: 7 stories show we grow closer together

LAKE PARK — A lifelong gamer who remembers the best Christmas gift he ever received when he was just 8 years old.

An empty nester who rediscovered her religious roots at a community Seder meal. 

A family caught by surprise when their new home's plumbing doesn't agree with their massive Thanksgiving plans. 

These are some of the stories The Palm Beach Post brought to the stage as part of its most recent Storytellers Project show. 

On Nov. 16, about 200 people gathered at the Lake Park Black Box theater to hear live stories about “Holidays" from storytellers Jonathan Tully, Jacquie Stephens, John Baudhuin, Linda Grosz, Rosalind Neilen, Amy Terwilleger and Frank Cerabino. 

The show was the third staged this year by the Storytellers Project, a national USA TODAY network program based on a simple truth: There are experiences we all share and we grow closer — as people and as a community — when we share them. In short, we find common ground.

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Rosalind Neilen

Rosaline Neilen didn't have tons of Christmas memories, but one looms large in her mind. 

Then living in Brooklyn, New York, Neilen went out with her dad on a handyman job he had on Christmas Day. She learned the differences between all his complicated-looking tools and found a new, softer side of her dad she didn't know existed. 

It's a memory the Port St. Lucie resident leans on when she deals with tough times in her life — some including her father.