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Local Color Collection Vol. 001

by Various

In this celebration of diversity, learn about the myriad histories and cultures behind our volunteers. (summary by Eric Ray)

CD booklet
Album Art

• LibriVox’s Local Color Collection Vol. 001 Internet Archive page
• Zip file of the entire collection – 95.7MB
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Total running time: 3:19:16

mp3 and ogg files

• Along the Jersey Shore – Boardwalk for Long Branch by New York Times – 10 July 1904 – 00:04:03
  Source: E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 1.9MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 3.8MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 2.6MB]
  Read by: Alan Davis Drake
• April – North Carolina by Harriet Monroe (1860-1936) – 00:00:59
  Source: E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.4MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 0.9MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 0.5MB]
  Read by: Laurie Anne Walden
• The Black Country by Samuel Sidney (1813-1883) – 00:40:24
  Source: E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 19.3MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 38.7MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 19.1MB]
  Read by: Andy Minter
• The British Matron by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) – 00:05:42
  Source: E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 2.8MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 5.7MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 3.5MB]
  Read by: Alan Davis Drake
• California State Declaration of Rights (1849) by California Constitutional Convention 1849 – 00:08:18
  Source: E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 3.9MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 7.9MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 5.1MB]
  Read by: Elaine Hamby
• The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain (1835-1910) – 00:15:15
  Source: E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 7.3MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 14.6MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 8.2MB]
  Read by: Kara Shallenberg
• The Cliff Dwellers by Joseph A. Munk (1847-1927) – 00:12:14
  Source: E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 5.8MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 11.7MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 8.0MB]
  Read by: James Christopher
• Devil’s Dance Chamber by Charles M. Skinner (1852-1907) – 00:03:18
  Source: E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 1.5MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 3.1MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.8MB]
  Read by: ML Cohen
• The First World War: Selections from the Manchester Guardian by DH Lawrence, Wilfred Owen and others – 00:23:52
  Source: E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 11.4MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 22.9MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 12.4MB]
  Read by: Carl Manchester
• The History of Simcoe County (excerpt) by Andrew F. Hunter (1863-1940) – 00:15:28
  Source: E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 7.4MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 14.8MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 8.0MB]
  Read by: Esther
• Hundreds of Lifes Lost by NY Times, June 1, 1889 – 00:12:24
  Source: E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 5.9MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 11.9MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 6.3MB]
  Read by: J. M. Smallheer
• New Jersey Colored Men by Special Dispatch to the New York Times 24 Aug1872 – 00:06:43
  Source: E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 3.2MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 6.4MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 4.1MB]
  Read by: Alan Davis Drake
• Origin of the Shell Mounds by J.Y. Detwiler – 00:08:00
  Source: E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 3.8MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 7.6MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 4.2MB]
  Read by: Lee Ann Howlett
• Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey by Joseph Cottle (1770-1853) – 00:21:04
  Source: E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 10.1MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 20.2MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 9.2MB]
  Read by: Rachel Lintern
• Secessionists Being Armed by Messrs. Walker and Lick – 00:04:25
  Source: E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 2.1MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 4.2MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 2.5MB]
  Read by: Eric Ray
• Silences and Note on the Chimes, from Carolina Chansons by DuBose Heyward (1885-1940) and Hervey Allen (1885-1940) – 00:04:57
  Source: E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 2.3MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 4.7MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 2.6MB]
  Read by: Laurie Anne Walden
• The Two Sisters, Chapter 1 from The Legends of Vancouver by
  E. Pauline Johnson (1860-1913) – 00:10:55
  Source: E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 5.2MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 10.4MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 5.9MB]
  Read by: Sarah Jennings
• Upon Westminster Bridge by William Wordsworth (1770-1850) – 00:01:15
  Source: E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.6MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.2MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 0.7MB]
  Read by: David Barnes

Cataloged on June 14, 2008