raconteur

It is something he observed in his wife’s grandfather, a lifelong reader and raconteur who retained his gentle voice and erudite air long after the stories in him were lost to Alzheimer’s disease.

“But the other thing is that he’s a born raconteur.”

Hemingway, ever the raconteur, regaled the cadre with stories, matching them drink for drink of this local elixir until the nights blurred into memory.

“I became a chutney cosmopolite,” he wrote, “and a raconteur of relish recipes.”

Ever the raconteur, Copeland is taking the speaking tour to Europe this spring and fall.