Exciting Events from the Past and Present Volume 8

Your Story Hour proudly presents this set of dramatized stories in our Exciting Events series that the whole family can enjoy. Listen as Robert Smalls, born a slave, becomes a boat pilot on the South Carolina waterfront during the Civil War era. In a daring act, he commandeers a valuable Confederate streamboat and makes a run for freedom. Follow Evelyn Brand, an attractive young woman in London’s Victorian era who went on to spend sixty-five years of her life in service to the people of India as the beloved missionary Granny Brand. Hear how Phyllis Wheatley was sold as a little girl in a slave auction, yet became a celebrated poet. Follow France’s Louis Braille, though blind himself, as he develops a dot/punch system of reading that opened a window to the world for the blind. Experience the dramatic world of missions in The Man Who Loved Cannibals and Out of the Jungle