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A Five-Month Journey West
Clip: Season 7 Episode 9 | 58sVideo has Closed Captions
A newlywed’s diary captures an 1859 trip from Metamora to California.
Five months on the road: Dick Oakford discusses Aunt Jennie’s journey from Metamora to California as a newlywed. He also shares how her family donated the original diary to the University of Illinois, preserving a personal account of life in 1859.
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Consider This with Christine Zak Edmonds is a local public television program presented by WTVP
Consider This with Christine Zak Edmonds
A Five-Month Journey West
Clip: Season 7 Episode 9 | 58sVideo has Closed Captions
Five months on the road: Dick Oakford discusses Aunt Jennie’s journey from Metamora to California as a newlywed. He also shares how her family donated the original diary to the University of Illinois, preserving a personal account of life in 1859.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipso the University of Illinois got this.
- Yes.
- Did the cousins gift this to the University of Illinois?
- Well, the cousins, all of the cousins gifted this to the Historical society, or the Historical section of the library.
- [Christine] Mm-hmm.
- Yeah.
And I have that at the museum and at the Peoria Historical Society, in their gift shops.
- Yeah, and it's quite an interesting read, because you don't think about those things today that- - No.
- You know, we can drive someplace.
I mean, how many days did it take 'em to get to Saint Louis in order to get up the river, right?
- Five months, the whole trip.
- Yeah, that's amazing.
- Yeah.
- And then they went to San Francisco, or no- - No, Sutter, California.
- Okay.
- Which is, I think, kind of between San Francisco and Los Angeles.
- Okay, all right.
And as a newlywed.
- As a newlywed.
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Clip: S7 Ep9 | 1m 14s | Dick Oakford shares how he adapted an 1859 family diary while preserving its voice. (1m 14s)
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Clip: S7 Ep9 | 57s | Dick Oakford finds a connection to a relative through her words on nature and faith. (57s)
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