Program 06: The Blood-Stained Primer
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Length: 00:04:57
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Program 20: Journey's End
(00:02:48)
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
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.
Program 19: Alec Turner's Funeral
(00:03:30)
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
At the time of Alec Turner's death in 1923, Journey's End had been his home for 50 years.
Program 18: Daisy's Near Marriage
(00:01:45)
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
At 40 Daisy became engaged to Joseph Bonet. When he later broke off the engagement, Daisy sued him--and won!
Program 17: A New Year's Recitation
(00:04:56)
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
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.
Program 16: Daisy's Premonition
(00:05:16)
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Daisy and her father were so close that she felt they could communicate psychically. This program details such an event.
Program 15: Daisy Turner Goes to Market
(00:04:14)
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
When a Boston market owner attempts to cheat her father, Daisy travels to Boston to confront him.
Program 14: Daisy's Black Doll
(00:04:39)
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
As a girl, Daisy Turner faces discrimination at school and confronts it directly--with poetry.
Program 13: How Daisy's Sister Shot the Bull
(00:03:11)
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
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 songs, which she learned and ...
Program 12: Alec Turner, the Strong Man
(00:03:20)
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
In this episode Alec Turner accepts a challenge and performs a dramatic feat of strength.
Program 11: Coming to Vermont
(00:03:20)
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Alec Turner and his wife, Sally settle in Vermont on the farm he called Journey's End.
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The plantation owner's granddaughter secretly taught Alec to read and write while he worked in the plantation dairy. Her mother became suspicious and interrupted a lesson with a bullwhip. Alec kept his blood-stained primer for the rest of his life. At 16, Alec escaped to join the First New Jersey Calvary and he fought in the Civil War.
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