Combining 165 contemporary and historical photographs, the author’s background introductions, historical accounts of farming dating to the first settlers, and narratives by the Wyman family, the reader is given a detailed visual and first-person narrative of a working farm in Vermont.

Forty-sSx Years of Pretty Straight Going: The Wyman Farm Weybridge, Vermont

Science & Math

Bellerose, George

Agricultural Sciences

Vermont Folklife Center

This non-fiction comics anthology presents stories of survival and healing told by Latin American migrant farmworkers in Vermont, and drawn by New England cartoonists as part of the El Viaje Más Caro Project-a health care outreach effort of the Open Door Clinic and UVM Extension Bridges to Health aimed at addressing the overlooked mental health needs of these vulnerable immigrants. Originally distributed to farm workers as individual Spanish language comic books, this collected edition brings the lives and voices-as well as the challenges and hardships-of these workers to an English-language audience, granting insight into the experiences and lives of the people vital to producing the food we eat.\nFeaturing a foreword by Julia Alvarez (Afterlife), introduction by Stephen R. Bissette (Swamp Thing) and preface by project founder, nurse Julia Doucet, these inspiring stories grapple with issues encountered by migrant workers everywhere-isolation, separation, depression, substance abuse-even as they celebrate resilience, family, community, and the ability of each storyteller to direct their own healing narrative. The Most Costly Journey is a gripping work that draws together non-fiction cartooning, graphic medicine and ethnography, channeling the skills of health care practitioners, artists and ethnographers into helping alleviate the pain of others.\nEDITED BY: Marek Bennett, Julia Grand Doucet, Andy Kolovos, & Teresa Mares 
FEATURED ARTISTS: Tillie Walden / Marek Bennett / Kevin Kite / Iona Fox / Kane Lynch / Teppi Zuppo / John Carvajal / Michael Tonn / Angela Boyle / Rick Veitch / Glynnis Fawkes / Greg Giordano / Ezra Veitch / Shashwat Mishra / Michelle Sayles\nFOREWORD: Julia Alvarez 
PREFACE: Julia Grand Doucet 
INTRODUCTION: Stephen R. Bissette 
AFTERWORD: Teresa Mares & Andy Kolovos\nPAGES: 252 / DIMENSIONS: 5.5"x8.5" 
INTERIOR: B&W / COVER: Color 
BINDING: Paperback / LANGUAGE: English 
PRINT ISBN: 978-0-916718-00-8 
LCCN: 2021932606

The Most Costly Journey: Stories of Migrant Farmworkers in Vermont Drawn by New England Cartoonists (English and Spanish Edition)

Biographies & Memoirs

Regional U.S.

About the Book:\nTurner Family Stories: From Enslavement in Virginia to Freedom in Vermont features the work of six New England cartoonists drawing on the rich personal and family stories of the remarkable Daisy Turner (1883-1988) of Grafton, Vermont.\nTurner Family Stories presents two of Daisy's accounts of the life of her father, Alec Turner, by Marek Bennett and Joel Christian Gill, and two stories from Daisy's own life by Francis Bordeleau and Lilllie Harris. The comics are linked together through a story by Grafton native Ezra Veitch, based on a childhood encounter he and a friend had with Daisy one afternoon. Center for Cartoon Studies graduate Robyn Smith drew the volume's cover. The book also features a Foreword by Gretchen Gerzina, Introduction by Julian Chambliss and a Preface by Jane Beck.\nAbout Daisy Turner:\nDaisy Turner, born in Grafton, Vermont in 1883, was the daughter of formerly enslaved Alec and Sally Turner, who settled there in the years following the Civil War. In 1983 Vermont Folklife Center founder Jane Beck met then 100-year-old Daisy and worked with her to record approximately 60 hours of interviews through which Daisy recounted the saga of several generations of her family.\nBeginning on the West African coast, Daisy's epic account follows the abduction of her grandfather Alessi and his enslavement on a Virginia plantation; her father Alexander's experiences growing up enslaved; his escape during the Civil War, joining up with the First NJ Cavalry; his post-war experiences in the south and New England; his eventual arrival in Grafton, and purchase of the family homestead, "Journey's End."\nIn addition to stories of her father's family, Daisy shared with Jane rich accounts of her own long life, from her childhood in Grafton, her adult years living and working in Boston, and her eventual return to Grafton after her mother's death in 1933. Beginning in her childhood, Daisy continually-and successfully-challenged the limits placed on her as a Black woman in New England during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, loudly asserting (even in court) her rights and the rights of her family members.

Turner Family Stories: From Enslavement in Virginia to Freedom in Vermont

Community & Culture

Here on This Hill: Conversations With Vermont Neighbors

History

Americas

This new anthology of songs was created by folk musician Margaret Mac Arthur working in collaboration with students from elementary schools throughout the state. Each song draws on interview and research about local history done by students, and highlights memorable personalities, events, legends, and places, from early days of settlement right up to the present. Helpful background information introduces each song, plus a short essay on how to intergrate music into classroom teaching round out this delightful volume.

The Vermont Heritage Songbook

Arthur, Margaret Mac

Sharrow, Gregory

Two brothers, Heinrich and Friedrich, immigrate separately to America, following each other by several years. Neither knows what has become of the other. One day the elder brother, Heinrich, is sent to mend fence with the neighboring farmer's hired man. To his delight he discovers the man he is to work with is none other than his younger brother, Friedrich! To his delight he discovers the man he is to work with is his none other than his younger brother, Friedrich!

The Two Brothers (The Family Heritage Series)

Children's Books

Jaspersohn, William

Literature & Fiction

On a crisp November day, work for the logger, John, and his trusty horse, Tom, goes smoothly, until suddenly disaster strikes. As John cuts through the trunk of a big pine tree, the tree falls unexpectedly, pinning John's foot to the ground. He's stuck, and night is falling. Tom is tied nearby, but can the faithful horse unhitch himself and help?

John and Tom (The Family Heritage Series)

Willem Lange

Animals

In the summer of her twelfth year, a poor girl named Emily leaves home to work on a farm in rural Quebec. The farmer and his wife love Emily, but when she falls ill and dies, another girl is hired to take her place. Soon a strange event keeps recurring in the farmhouse. What is going on? On the first night, the farmer fails to solve the mystery. But on the second night, the farmer's wife snaps awake to find herself staring at a ghost!

The Ghost on the Hearth (The Family Heritage Series)

Susan Milord

Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

A family story about an heirloom was the inspiration for this suspenseful narrative about a young boy's encounter in 1710 with mutinous pirates on a coastal Rhode Island farm. Author William Jaspersohn deftly contrasts boyhood fantasies with the discovery of the harsh realities of outlaw life. Vibrant illustrations heighten the graphic intensity of Jaspersohn's prose. The final page offers ideas to help children uncover the stories embedded in their own family heirlooms.

The Scrimshaw Ring (The Family Heritage Series)

As a young boy born into slavery in Virginia, Alec Turner was forbidden to learn to read. Naturally he was frightened when Zephie, his owner's granddaughter, first offered to teach him, but she told him that if he learned to read, he could become a free man. Mastering the alphabet from a small primer marked the first steps that would eventually lead Alec to freedom on a Vermont farm.

Alec's Primer (Vermont Folklife Center)

Walter, Mildred Pitts

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