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The Hurricane

From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Youth Radio Vermont

When I was 13, I lived in Florida with my mother. This is a story about a hurricane we lived through together, and how our lives changed in the aft...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, The Nature Podcast, and WXLV-FM

Added: Jun 14, 2007
Length: 07:40
Purchases: 3

What Makes You Happy?

From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Youth Radio Vermont

I asked people in Middlebury, Vermont, "What makes you happy?" This is what they said.

Bought by WXLV-FM

Added: Jun 14, 2007
Length: 05:26
Purchases: 1

My Dad

From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Youth Radio Vermont

For the past couple years, my dad has been in and out of jail. This story is about why. And it's about how my father's troubles have affected me.

Bought by WXLV-FM

Added: Jun 14, 2007
Length: 05:28
Purchases: 1

Into a Million Pieces

From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Youth Radio Vermont

John Halligan talks about the loss of his son to suicide.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, YouthCast, and WXLV-FM

Added: Jun 14, 2007
Length: 19:53
Purchases: 3

A Dinner with Dad

From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Youth Radio Vermont

I wrote this piece to show a typical night out with my dad.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WXLV-FM

Added: Jun 14, 2007
Length: 05:20
Purchases: 2

Beautiful, Painful Truth

From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Youth Radio Vermont

Story of a man who must end a loving marriage when he comes to terms with his homosexuality.

Bought by KUT, KRCB 104.9, KUNM, and WXLV-FM

Added: Jun 14, 2007
Length: 10:10
Purchases: 4

Program 20: Journey's End

From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family

Daisy Turner was proud of her heritage and understood the value of her family tradition. This is the concluding program in the series, Journey's End.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX

Added: Jan 10, 2007
Length: 02:48
Purchases: 2

Program 19: Alec Turner's Funeral

From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family

At the time of Alec Turner's death in 1923, Journey's End had been his home for 50 years.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX

Added: Jan 10, 2007
Length: 03:30
Purchases: 2

Program 18: Daisy's Near Marriage

From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family

At 40 Daisy became engaged to Joseph Bonet. When he later broke off the engagement, Daisy sued him--and won!

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX

Added: Jan 10, 2007
Length: 01:45
Purchases: 2

Program 17: A New Year's Recitation

From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family

By the turn of the century the Turner household had become a kind of community social center. This program explores the texture of these gatherings.

Bought by Radio Catskill, KGOU, PRX to iTunes, and KZYX

Added: Jan 10, 2007
Length: 04:56
Purchases: 4

Program 16: Daisy's Premonition

From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family

Daisy and her father were so close that she felt they could communicate psychically. This program details such an event.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX

Added: Jan 10, 2007
Length: 05:16
Purchases: 2

Program 15: Daisy Turner Goes to Market

From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family

When a Boston market owner attempts to cheat her father, Daisy travels to Boston to confront him.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX

Added: Jan 10, 2007
Length: 04:14
Purchases: 2

Program 14: Daisy's Black Doll

From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family

As a girl, Daisy Turner faces discrimination at school and confronts it directly--with poetry.

Bought by KZYX, PRX to iTunes, and KZYX

Added: Jan 10, 2007
Length: 04:39
Purchases: 3

Program 13: How Daisy's Sister Shot the Bull

From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family

Daisy suffered from rickets as a child and during her younger years was unable to walk. At a young age she heard prayers, recitations, hymns, and s...

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX

Added: Jan 10, 2007
Length: 03:11
Purchases: 2

Program 12: Alec Turner, the Strong Man

From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family

In this episode Alec Turner accepts a challenge and performs a dramatic feat of strength.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX

Added: Jan 10, 2007
Length: 03:20
Purchases: 2

Program 11: Coming to Vermont

From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family

Alec Turner and his wife, Sally settle in Vermont on the farm he called Journey's End.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX

Added: Jan 10, 2007
Length: 03:20
Purchases: 2

Program 10: The Slate Quarry

From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family

Alec and Sally Turner lived for a time in Williamsburg, Maine, as members of a colony of freed slaves who worked in the Merrill slate quarry there.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX

Added: Jan 10, 2007
Length: 04:45
Purchases: 2

Program 09: Marriage and Near-Disaster at Sea

From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family

After the Civil War ended, Alec worked helping freed slaves find jobs off the plantations. During this time he met his future wife, Sally Early, th...

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX