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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

The Angel Warrior On His Way to the Top

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Despite the concerns of his family, Mike St. Germain races stock cars to win and for God.

Bought by HowSound, KFAI Minneapolis, and SALTcast Podcast

Added: Dec 19, 2006
Length: 07:18
Purchases: 3

SOWETO Today

From: Mikko Kapanen

The largest township of South Africa 12 years after the fall of apartheid

Added: Dec 06, 2006
Length: 10:30

the writing in the margins

From: gavin lapid

this is a story i wrote last spring about changing my name and being gender-queer

Bought by WGDR

Added: Nov 30, 2006
Length: 09:47
Purchases: 1

Crossing East: Jared Rehberg Music Feature

From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series

Singer/Songwriter Jared Rehberg is perhaps the only transracial and international adoptee who sings about being an adoptee.

Bought by KCUR

Added: Nov 07, 2006
Length: 04:59
Purchases: 1

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

DIRTY HARRY - When the American Dream Became a Nightmare

From: Claes Andreasson

The effects of the nuclear weapons tests in Nevada on people working at, and living downwind from the test site

Bought by KUER, KOSU, Nevada Public Radio, PRX Remix, WNIJ and more

Added: Sep 21, 2006
Length: 59:59
Purchases: 11

The Story of the SRA-Bylaw (DRAFT)

From: Megan Hall

Behind every law there's an intention. There's a response to a problem. Here's the problem-

Added: May 01, 2006
Length: 39:32

In My Neighborhood

From: KUER

How one neighbohood thinks about rights for gay people

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston and KUSP

Added: Jan 05, 2006
Length: 14:51
Purchases: 2

El Americano Dream

From: SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network

Latinos in the States and the many struggles they face and overcome.

Added: Dec 20, 2005
Length: 06:28

You Only Have To Look and See

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

Martha Solomon tries to discover more about the work of her late father, a highly regarded photographer. What Martha discovers is the difference be...

Bought by WTIP