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A midwife's tale [videorecording] / by Boekelheide, Todd,composer.; Kahn-Leavitt, Laurie,screenwriter,television producer.; Korda, Susan,editor.; Lee, Kaiulani,actor.; Poster, Steven,1944-cinematographer.; Rogers, Richard P.,television director.; Stein, Peter,1943-cinematographer.; Tough, Ron,actor.; Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher,1938-commentator.(CARDINAL)161417; Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher,1938-Midwife's tale.; Blueberry Hill Productions.; Orison (Musical group); PBS Home Video.(CARDINAL)218235;
Key advisor and collaborator, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich ; directors of photography, Peter Stein, Steven Poster ; editors, William A. Anderson, Susan Korda ; music by Todd Boekelheide ; music performed by Orison (Barry Phillips, Deby Benton Grosjean, William Coulter, Shelley Phillips, Lars Johannesson) ; production designer, Nancy Deren ; costume designer, Kim Marie Druce.Kaiulani Lee (Martha Ballard), Ron Tough (Ephraim Ballard), Kevin Jubinville (Jonathan Ballard), Waneta Storms (Sally Pierce Ballard), Henriette Ivanans (Parthenia Barton), Patricia Welbourn (Hanna Ballard)."An innovative dramatic film based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning story of Martha Ballard, a midwife and mother living in the wilds of Maine during the chaotic decades following the American Revolution. In a sparsely written diary, Ballard recorded her daily struggle against poverty, disease, domestic abuse and social turmoil. Two hundred years later, her world is painstakingly recreated by a historian seeking to understand eighteenth century America through a woman's eyes."--Tells the story of two women, 200 years apart, linked together by the massive yet cryptic diary one of them left behind. The life and world of Martha Ballard, a frontier midwife in Maine, is reconstructed through her diary. She lived through the economic boom and bust, and political and social turmoil of the decades following the American Revolution.Not rated.DVD; region 1, NTSC; full screen presentation; stereo.
Subjects: Biographical television programs.; Documentary television programs.; Historical television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Ballard, Martha, 1735-1812; Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher, 1938-; Midwives; Midwives; Midwives;
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Celtic odyssey [sound recording]. by Fraser, Alasdair.prf; Machlis, Paul.prf; Whelan, John.prf; Ivers, Eileen.prf; Trimble, Gerald.prf; Riley, Laurie.prf; McNally, Bob.prf; Wynberg, Simon,1955-prf; Altan (Musical group)prf; Capercaillie (Musical group)prf; Moving Hearts (Musical group)rf.; Northern Lights (Musical group)prf; Orison (Musical group)prf; Relativity (Musical group)prf; Scartaglen (Musical group)prf; Sileas (Musical group)prf;
Carolan's ramble to Cashel (Northern Lights) -- The butterfly (Orison) -- Dónal Agus Mórag ; New-rigged ship (Altan) -- Calliope house ; Cowboy jig (Alasdair Fraser ; Paul Machlis) -- Chuaigh me 'na Rosann (Scartaglen) -- Trip to Skye (John Whelan ; Eileen Ivers) -- Are ye sleeping, Maggie? (Alasdair Fraser) -- Tribute to Peadar O'Donnell (Moving Hearts) -- Siún Ní Dhuibhir (Relativity) -- Alasdair mhic Cholla Ghasda (Capercaillie) -- Puirt a beul (Sileas) -- York reel ; Dancing feet (Gerald Trimble) -- Morghan Meaghan (Laurie Riley ; Bob McNally) -- Strathgarry (Simon Wynberg).Recorded ca. 1983-1993.Recorded ca. 1983-1993.
Subjects: Folk music.; Folk music; Folk music; Folk songs, Scottish Gaelic; Folk songs, Scottish Gaelic;
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