JAM Podcasts & Audiobooks

On this week of Voices of the Voters: human politics in a chain store jungle.

In this series, Frances Mize vibe checks the Upper Valley in advance of the national election. The project is less interested in who you’re voting for than how you feel about the country today and how you feel about its future.

PRELUDE

JAM Audiobook

Read by the author

Helen Taylor Davidson

Based on the 1854 Diary of Adeline Elizabeth Hoe

Edited by Richard Davidson and Helen Taylor Davidson

About the novel

In the spring of 1854 seventeen-year-old Adeline Elizabeth Hoe began to keep a daily diary.  Filled with six months of the details of a young girl’s life, the diary offers a wonderful window into the mind of an educated young woman from a well-to-do family living in Lower Manhattan in the turbulent decade before the Civil War.  Her meticulous record of the elegant music, dances and literature she and her sister enjoyed is juxtaposed with her matter-of-fact relation of epidemics and sudden deaths, conveying a vivid picture of mid-nineteenth-century life.  Author Helen Davidson, a descendent of Adeline, transcribed the diary with her husband, Richard Davidson.  Helen wrote the novel Prelude, while transcribing the diary, re-imagining the life of this spirited young girl.

The novel commences in the spring before Adeline’s eighteenth birthday when she and her older sister Emilie travel to summer destinations in the countryside.  Addies was the second daughter of the famed inventor and manufacturer Richard March Hoe, whose “Lightning” printing press had become widely used in the US and beyond.  One of the visitors to the March household noted in the diary, abolitionist Joe Stewart, takes a central role in the novel.  As his confidante, Adeline becomes aware of the atmosphere of antebellum opposition to slavery and begins herself to espouse Abolitionist sentiment, the closer she gets to the mysterious Joe.

About the author

A lifelong music teacher, choral director, dramatist and writer, Helen Taylor Davidson is the custodian of many heirlooms in a family whose American roots stem from the early 1600s.  These include her ancestor’s diary.  The Davidsons live in Plainfield, NH in the home where Helen was raised.

Sally is an 87 year-old feisty, delightful friend. who has a remarkable spirit. Her attitude towards life is to fine a way to grow no matter what difficulties you might face. And be yourself!

About the series:
The elder years bring their unique challenges and changes. What does living a vibrant, meaningful life look like in this "third act"? In this podcast, Jill Fischer, psychotherapist and life coach, talks with women who stand out as inspiring examples of aging with zest about how they do that.

A few days roaming around town.

In this series, Frances Mize vibe checks the Upper Valley in advance of the national election. The project is less interested in who you’re voting for than how you feel about the country today and how you feel about its future.

PRELUDE

JAM Audiobook

Read by the author

Helen Taylor Davidson

Based on the 1854 Diary of Adeline Elizabeth Hoe

Edited by Richard Davidson and Helen Taylor Davidson

About the novel

In the spring of 1854 seventeen-year-old Adeline Elizabeth Hoe began to keep a daily diary.  Filled with six months of the details of a young girl’s life, the diary offers a wonderful window into the mind of an educated young woman from a well-to-do family living in Lower Manhattan in the turbulent decade before the Civil War.  Her meticulous record of the elegant music, dances and literature she and her sister enjoyed is juxtaposed with her matter-of-fact relation of epidemics and sudden deaths, conveying a vivid picture of mid-nineteenth-century life.  Author Helen Davidson, a descendent of Adeline, transcribed the diary with her husband, Richard Davidson.  Helen wrote the novel Prelude, while transcribing the diary, re-imagining the life of this spirited young girl.

The novel commences in the spring before Adeline’s eighteenth birthday when she and her older sister Emilie travel to summer destinations in the countryside.  Addies was the second daughter of the famed inventor and manufacturer Richard March Hoe, whose “Lightning” printing press had become widely used in the US and beyond.  One of the visitors to the March household noted in the diary, abolitionist Joe Stewart, takes a central role in the novel.  As his confidante, Adeline becomes aware of the atmosphere of antebellum opposition to slavery and begins herself to espouse Abolitionist sentiment, the closer she gets to the mysterious Joe.

About the author

A lifelong music teacher, choral director, dramatist and writer, Helen Taylor Davidson is the custodian of many heirlooms in a family whose American roots stem from the early 1600s.  These include her ancestor’s diary.  The Davidsons live in Plainfield, NH in the home where Helen was raised.

Episode 2 - JAM Rebrand - Maeve sits down with the JAM team leader, Samantha Davidson Green to discuss how JAM came into being as it exists today. Listen in to learn how and why CATV got the facelift to become JAM – Junction Arts & Media.

Join Maeve and the rest of the JAM team as they discuss all things JAM and what's going on in the Upper Valley. Send suggestions and feedback to Maeve at [email protected]. 

PRELUDE

JAM Audiobook

Read by the author

Helen Taylor Davidson

Based on the 1854 Diary of Adeline Elizabeth Hoe

Edited by Richard Davidson and Helen Taylor Davidson

About the novel

In the spring of 1854 seventeen-year-old Adeline Elizabeth Hoe began to keep a daily diary.  Filled with six months of the details of a young girl’s life, the diary offers a wonderful window into the mind of an educated young woman from a well-to-do family living in Lower Manhattan in the turbulent decade before the Civil War.  Her meticulous record of the elegant music, dances and literature she and her sister enjoyed is juxtaposed with her matter-of-fact relation of epidemics and sudden deaths, conveying a vivid picture of mid-nineteenth-century life.  Author Helen Davidson, a descendent of Adeline, transcribed the diary with her husband, Richard Davidson.  Helen wrote the novel Prelude, while transcribing the diary, re-imagining the life of this spirited young girl.

The novel commences in the spring before Adeline’s eighteenth birthday when she and her older sister Emilie travel to summer destinations in the countryside.  Addies was the second daughter of the famed inventor and manufacturer Richard March Hoe, whose “Lightning” printing press had become widely used in the US and beyond.  One of the visitors to the March household noted in the diary, abolitionist Joe Stewart, takes a central role in the novel.  As his confidante, Adeline becomes aware of the atmosphere of antebellum opposition to slavery and begins herself to espouse Abolitionist sentiment, the closer she gets to the mysterious Joe.

About the author

A lifelong music teacher, choral director, dramatist and writer, Helen Taylor Davidson is the custodian of many heirlooms in a family whose American roots stem from the early 1600s.  These include her ancestor’s diary.  The Davidsons live in Plainfield, NH in the home where Helen was raised.

Three people decades apart stand near a bus stop in Hartford and talk about the drug epidemic, political advertisements, loaves and also fishes.

In this series, Frances Mize vibe checks the Upper Valley in advance of the national election. The project is less interested in who you’re voting for than how you feel about the country today and how you feel about its future.

 Among the subjects of the first episode of JAM–Junction Art & Media podcast “Voices of the Voters” are a civics teacher, a baker and a thirteen-year-old novelist in the Upper Valley. They’re all trying to make sense of the country and their place in it as we draw increasingly closer to a historic national election.

In this audio documentary series, journalist Frances Mize vibe-checks the Upper Valley in advance of the 2024 national election. The project is less interested in who you’re voting for than how you feel about the country today and how you feel about its future.

This podcast is produced by JAM – Junction Arts & Media, building community in the Upper Valley of NH and VT.

PRELUDE, A NOVEL, a JAM audiobook

Read by the author, Helen Taylor Davidson

Based on the 1854 Diary of Adeline Elizabeth Hoe

Edited by Richard Davidson and Helen Taylor Davidson

About the novel

In the spring of 1854 seventeen-year-old Adeline Elizabeth Hoe began to keep a daily diary.  Filled with six months of the details of a young girl’s life, the diary offers a wonderful window into the mind of an educated young woman from a well-to-do family living in Lower Manhattan in the turbulent decade before the Civil War.  Her meticulous record of the elegant music, dances and literature she and her sister enjoyed is juxtaposed with her matter-of-fact relation of epidemics and sudden deaths, conveying a vivid picture of mid-nineteenth-century life.  Author Helen Davidson, a descendent of Adeline, transcribed the diary with her husband, Richard Davidson.  Helen wrote the novel Prelude, while transcribing the diary, re-imagining the life of this spirited young girl.

The novel commences in the spring before Adeline’s eighteenth birthday when she and her older sister Emilie travel to summer destinations in the countryside.  Addies was the second daughter of the famed inventor and manufacturer Richard March Hoe, whose “Lightning” printing press had become widely used in the US and beyond.  One of the visitors to the March household noted in the diary, abolitionist Joe Stewart, takes a central role in the novel.  As his confidante, Adeline becomes aware of the atmosphere of antebellum opposition to slavery and begins herself to espouse Abolitionist sentiment, the closer she gets to the mysterious Joe.

About the author

A lifelong music teacher, choral director, dramatist and writer, Helen Taylor Davidson is the custodian of many heirlooms in a family whose American roots stem from the early 1600s.  These include her ancestor’s diary.  The Davidsons live in Plainfield, NH in the home where Helen was raised.

Content advisory:  This audiobook content includes racial terminology derived from the era of the 1854 diary on which it was based.