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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

Being Black

From: Radio Rookies

Allison Jones excels academically, but struggles with how her peers in her Brooklyn neighborhood pressure her for ?talking white.?

Bought by The Story, KUOW, NPR Station Showcase with PRX, KFAI Minneapolis, WMPG and more

Added: Dec 18, 2006
Length: 05:23
Purchases: 6

Buddy Guy: Can't Quit the Blues

From: Joyride Media
Series: Black History Month Specials

Brand new one-hour music intensive radio special features legendary bluesman Buddy Guy in his own words and music.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KCNP, KNKX, Harford Community Radio, KPSQ-LP and more

Added: Nov 20, 2006
Length: 59:05
Purchases: 46

Wheels within Wheels: Jazz Percussionist Nasar Abadey Contemplates Rhythm

From: Aaron Henkin

Jazz drummer Nasar Abadey demonstrates his skills and shares his thoughts on the nature of rhythm

Bought by 90.5 WSNC and KVMR

Added: Oct 02, 2006
Length: 05:20
Purchases: 2

AARON NEVILLE: BRING ON THE SOUL

From: Tres Hombres Productions

New one-hour music intensive radio special features Aaron Neville performing classics songs by the all-time great R&B artists who have inspired Aar...

Bought by WUFT, WUFT, KCMJ Community Radio, KMUW, WSLR and more

Added: Oct 01, 2006
Length: 56:39
Purchases: 11

Fats Waller: If You Gotta Ask

From: Joyride Media
Series: Black History Month Specials

One-hour music intensive documentary about Fats Waller, one of America's great composers and performers of the 20th century.

Bought by WICR, KNKX, KPSQ-LP, Prairie Public, WVIA and more

Added: Sep 22, 2006
Length: 59:05
Purchases: 37

Kevin Goodman, Big Chief of the Flaming Arrows

From: Sarah Yahm

the Big Chief of the Flaming Arrows mardi gras indian tribe talks about his new life post-katrina in Austin

Added: Sep 06, 2006
Length: 04:12

Kansas City Central Debate: Rules of the Game

From: KCUR

Kansas City Central's debate squad is shaking up the national circuit, by rapping their arguments to music, and making the case that the activity i...

Added: Aug 29, 2006
Length: 20:51

The Undiscovered Explorer: Imagining York

From: Claire Schoen