Skip to main content.

Local Color Collection Vol. 001

Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers

In this celebration of diversity, learn about the myriad histories and cultures behind our volunteers. (summary by Eric Ray) (3 hr 19 min)

Chapters

Along the New Jersey Shore. Boardwalk for Long Branch; Many Improvements Promis…

4:03

Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)

April - North Carolina

0:59

Read by Laurie Anne Walden

Black Country, The from Rides on Railroads

40:24

Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)

The British Matron

5:42

Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)

Calilfornia State Declaration of Rights (1849)

8:18

Read by Elaine Hamby

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

15:15

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)

The Cliff Dwellers - fromArizona Sketches

12:14

Read by James Christopher

The Devil's Dance-Chamber - from Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 01:

3:18

Read by ML Cohen

The First World War - Selections from the Manchester Guardian

23:52

Read by Carl Manchester

The History of Simcoe County (excerpt from Chapter 5)

15:28

Read by Esther

Hundreds of Lives Lost, June 1, 1889

12:24

Read by J. M. Smallheer

New Jersey Colored Men. Special Dispatch, August 24, 1872

6:43

Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)

Origin of the Shell Mounds

8:00

Read by Lee Ann Howlett

Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey (excerpt)

21:04

Read by Rachel Lintern

Seccessionists Being Armed, March 14, 1863

4:25

Read by Eric Ray

Silences and Note on the Chimes from Carolina Chansons

4:57

Read by Laurie Anne Walden

The Two Sisters - from Legends of Vancouver (Chapter 1)

10:55

Read by Sarah Jennings

Upon Westminster Bridge

1:15

Read by David Barnes