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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

Added: Jan 10, 2007
Length: 03:51
Purchases: 2

Program 08: The Doctor's Letter

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

Daisy recites a Civil War-era poem--a doctor's letter to the parents of a dead soldier who was his comrade in arms.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX

Added: Jan 10, 2007
Length: 05:01
Purchases: 2

Program 07: The Raid

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

Alec Turner guides the First New Jersey Cavalry on a raid of the plantation that had been his home.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX

Added: Jan 10, 2007
Length: 03:14
Purchases: 2

Program 06: The Blood-Stained Primer

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

Daisy recounts the story of how her father learned to read

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX

Added: Jan 10, 2007
Length: 04:57
Purchases: 2

Program 05: A Fishing Story

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

John Gouldin's plantation was on the Rappahannock River in Port Royal, Virginia. He owned 2,000 acres and 77 slaves. If the slaves didn't work fast...

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX

Added: Jan 10, 2007
Length: 03:15
Purchases: 2

Program 04: More Stories of Plantation Life

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

Alec Turner was born on the Gouldin plantation in 1845 and remembered his childhood there in stories he told his children and grandchildren. Many o...

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX

Added: Jan 10, 2007
Length: 02:24
Purchases: 2

Program 03: Young Alec and His Red Moccasins

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

In this episode Alec Turner's mother, Rose secretly makes a pair of red moccasins for Alec with disastrous consequences.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX

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

Program 02: Africa, Slave Ships, and a Cherokee Princess

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

The story of Daisy's grandfather Alexander, whose parents were a shipwrecked English merchant's daughter and an African chieftain's son.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX

Added: Jan 10, 2007
Length: 05:23
Purchases: 2

Program 01: Daisy Turner, Vermont Storyteller

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

Introducing Daisy Turner who lived to be 104 and was an extraordinary storyteller, sharing experiences from her lifetime and from her parents and g...

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX

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

Finding Out

From: Susan Goldberg

Susan's mother died of breast cancer on Mother's Day in 2004. She carried a genetic mutation that made her susceptible to the disease. After years ...

Added: Nov 27, 2006
Length: 20:11

We Are Strong Women

From: Julia Applegate

Interviews with HIV+ Women

Bought by Wyoming Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, 90.5 WSNC, and KUGS Bellingham, Wash.

Added: Nov 08, 2006
Length: 05:24
Purchases: 4

RN Documentary: Home Sweet Home Birth

From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries

A look at the Dutch tradition of home births and what the future has in store for his practice.

Added: Sep 28, 2006
Length: 29:30

MASH 1969 - Visions of War, Dreams of Peace

From: Center for Emerging Media
Series: Shared Weight

Profiles of poet George Evans, a veteran medic, and Lynda Van Devanter, whose experiences as Vietnam nurse inspired China Beach. Warning: Graphic D...

Bought by Indie3 Radio, WKMS, WRGY, KBYS 88.3 FM, NPR Illinois and more

Added: Sep 21, 2006
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 18

Reporting from the Red Light

From: Seattle Globalist

A reporter's personal and ethical journey through Kolkata's red light districts.

Added: Aug 12, 2006
Length: 08:44

Part three: Anne Strike

From: Siobhan Mullen / David Lewis
Series: Get On With It

in the third part of our series we look at a disabled model

Added: Jul 11, 2006
Length: 10:02

RN Documentary: Running with Atalanta

From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries

Women who are victims of trafficking and forced to work in the sex trade in The Netherlands often find themselves perceived as criminals by a gover...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KFAI Minneapolis

Added: Apr 20, 2006
Length: 29:30
Purchases: 2

Tsim Txom: Domestic Violence in Hmong Society

From: Wisconsin Public Radio

A look at domestic abuse in Hmong culture

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis

Added: Jan 01, 2006
Length: 29:42
Purchases: 1

Painted Lady: Part Two

From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront

Elizabeth once worked the strolls in Calgary and Vancouver as a heroin addicted prostitute. She tells us how she went from sex trade worker to socc...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis

Added: Dec 16, 2005
Length: 13:35
Purchases: 1

Painted Lady: Part One

From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront

There are not many women who can tell the stories Elizabeth Hudson has to tell -- she used to work the strolls in Calgary and Vancouver as a heroin...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis