HERE IS WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE BEGINNING OF STORY.


More than 17,000 years ago, somebody scratched a wild horse into a cave wall at Lascaux. People stared, rapt, at that horse and the bison and cattle around him. Such scenes grew more elaborate, telling tales of the hunt, of life, of death. Egyptian hieroglyphs turned such pictures into words, and the words grew into epics like Gilgamesh and the Mahabharata. Words found the stage in ancient Greece; turned into heroic poetry with Te Song of Roland; invented the novel with Te Tale of Genji. Te discovery of the printing press spread the stories of the Bible, and then of Shakespeare and Tolstoy and J.R. Tolkien. Stories were captured on film, giving us Te Battleship Potemkin and Citizen Kane and Te Wizard of Oz. Now they’ve gone digital in social media, shrunk to Twitter miniatures, exploded into 1,000 different simultaneous narratives.


BUT THEY’RE STILL STORIES.


And their tellers—from Aesop to Chaucer to J.K. Rowling—still wield power over us. Stories have been inked, danced, photographed, and blogged. But though the media change, the archetypes don’t. Stories are quests and adventures; they’re about discovery, rebirth, redemption, and transformation.


According to PGAV Vice President Ned Diestelkamp, “PGAV has designed destinations honoring quite a few heroic journeys, from the astronauts flying into space on the Atlantis shuttle to Turtle Trek, an experience that chronicles the amazing life of the sea turtle.”


ONCE UPON A TIME


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