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The most costly journey : stories of migrant farmworkers in Vermont, drawn by New England cartoonists  Cover Image Book Book

The most costly journey : stories of migrant farmworkers in Vermont, drawn by New England cartoonists / edited by Marek Bennett, Julia Grand Doucet, Teresa Mares, Andy Kolovos.

Bennett, Marek, (editor,, artist.). Doucet, Julia Grand, (editor,, writer of preface.). Mares, Teresa M., 1978- (editor,, writer of afterword.). Kolovos, Andy, (editor,, writer of afterword.). Bissette, Stephen, (writer of introduction.). Alvarez, Julia, (writer of foreword.). Open Door Clinic (Middlebury, Vt.), (issuing body.). Vermont Folklife Center, (issuing body.). University of Vermont Extension, (issuing body.). University of Vermont. Department of Anthropology, (issuing body.). Marek Bennett's Comics Workshop, (issuing body.).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780916718008
  • ISBN: 091671800X
  • Physical Description: xix, 226 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  • Edition: English Language Edition.
  • Publisher: Middlebury, VT : Open Door Clinic, [2021]

Content descriptions

General Note:
"These stories first appeared as mini-comics published by the El Viaje Más Caro project at Open Door Clinic, Middlebury, VT (2015-2018)"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-220).
Language Note:
Text in English with some portions in Spanish.
Subject: Foreign workers, Mexican > Vermont > Biography > Comic books, strips, etc.
Foreign workers, Guatemalan > Vermont > Biography > Comic books, strips, etc.
Migrant agricultural laborers > Vermont > Biography > Comic books, strips, etc.
Foreign workers, Guatemalan.
Foreign workers, Mexican.
Migrant agricultural laborers.
Vermont.
Genre: Oral histories.
Biographical comics.
Comics (Graphic works)
Comics (Graphic works)
Oral histories.
Biographical comics.

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at Town of Orford Libraries.

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  • 0 current holds with 2 total copies.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Orford Free Library A 920 BEN 34446000124052 Adult nonfiction Available -
Orford Social Library 305.5/6308968720743 34190000115484 New items Available -

Summary: "The Most Costly Journey (El viaje más caro) is a collaboration between the Open Door Clinic, Vermont Folklife Center, UVM Extension Bridges to Health, UVM Anthropology, and Marek Bennett's Comics Workshop. [It] is an ethnographic cartooning project that employs collaborative storytelling as a tool to mitigate loneliness, isolation, and despair among Latin American migrant farm workers on Vermont dairy farms."--Open Door Clinic website: https://opendoormidd.org/most-costly-journey/

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