The Vermont Folklife Center annouces the release of our new non-fiction graphic novel, Turner Family Stories: From Enslavement in Virginia to Freedom in Vermont.
Turner Family Stories 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.
Daisy was the daughter of formerly enslaved Alec and Sally Turner, who settled on a hilltop farm in Grafton 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.
Turner Family Stories presents two of Daisy’s accounts from the life of her father, Alec Turner, drawn by Marek Bennett and Joel Christian Gill, and two stories from her own life rendered by Francis Bordeleau and Lilllie Harris. The comics adapted from Daisy’s interviews 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. Cartoonist Robyn Smith drew the volume’s cover.
Details: http://vermontfolklifecenter.org/turner-family-stories
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