Exciting Events #11 CD - Tears, Potatoes, and Inspiring Women in History - Your Story Hour

Your Story Hour proudly presents this set of dramatized stories in our "Exciting Events" series that the whole family can enjoy.

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In the story "Tears and Potatoes" a Choctaw family endures the tragic 1830s "Trail of Tears" forced relocation to Oklahoma territory. The story unfolds as we follow an Irish family amid the hardships of the 1840s Potato Famine.  In an inspiring act of compassion, the Choctaw Nation sends aid, saving many starving Irish families.

Experience the determination of Emily Dunning riding the fast, dangerous horse-drawn ambulances of the 1890s on her way to becoming the world's first woman ambulance doctor.

Travel back to early 1700s Quebec as a teenaged Madeleine de Vercheres bravely leads the meager defense of a fort under seige by Iroquois warriors. 

Amy Carmichael becomes a beloved mother to unwanted children of southern India in the story "The Child-Stealing Woman."  

Then, hear "Pocahontas: Girl of Two Worlds" as Chief Powhatan's young daughter helps ease tensions between her people and Jamestown colonists. 

Finally, in "Nurse Tribulation Periwinkle" writer Louisa May Alcott becomes a Civil War nurse.

This album contains 3 audio CDs for approximately 3 hours of listening time. 

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