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  • Author: Piotrowski, Tadeusz

Date: 1974

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1102740

Brief essay trying to identify - historically, culturally, nationally - the Franco Americans of the largest city in northern New England, New Hampshire's industrial center, and the one-time home to the largest mill complex in the world. Also featured…

  • Author: Plante, Chantal
  • Author: Baribeau, Celine

Date: 2010 April 30

Language: English, with some français

Find in a Library: 3227 (BCTV)

The second broadcast of Bedford, New Hampshire's "Bonjour." Chantal, Celine, and their special guest, Luci, talk to us while they show how to make and cook la fondue.

  • Author: Shaw, E.E.

Date: 2002 December 18

Language: English and français

Find in a Library: None

Read: Watch: VIDEO

Film footage of woodsmen at Rivière Rouge in St. Jovite, Québec, on the log drive. Timber moves from the stump, to the trails, to the river's flow, and on to the mills. Black and white silent film with scrolling text introduction.

  • Author: Kennebec Journal Editorial Staff

Date: 1997 June 3

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8814143, 60630676

A captioned image from within Pomerleau's Bakery that sat on Franklin Street in Augusta, Maine, in the 1940s. The Kennebec Journal celebrated Augusta, Maine's bicentennial (1797-1997) throughout that year by regularly featuring city images from days…

  • Author: Tessier, Marie

Date: 2001 April 12

Language: English

Find in a Library: 44854099

E-news article on women reviving Franco culture in Maine.

  • Author: L'Heureux, Juliana

Date: 2010 March 31

Publication: Portland Press Herald

Language: English

Find in a Library: 9341113

Article on the culinary creations adapted by French Catholics for the meatless Holy Week before the Easter celebration.

  • Author: American French Genealogical Society

Date: 2001

Language: en

Find in a Library: 460758691

Cookbook of traditional Franco-American recipes handed down through multiple generations of family cooks. A collective production of members and contributors to the American-French Genealogical Society of Woonsocket, Rhode Island.

  • Author: Albert, Renaud S. (editor)

Date: 1979

Volume: 1 of 8

Language: en

Find in a Library: 6523696

Volume 1 of an eight-part series on Franco American history and life. From ERIC: "A brief narrative description of the journal article, document, or resource. Intended to help readers develop an appreciation of the contributions of Franco-Americans…

  • Author: Cyr, Sr. Marguerite

Date: 1976

Institution: Notre Album Culturel sur Google Books

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 2756715

Un affichage artistique de la culture acadienne quotidien dans la Vallée St-Jean du Maine. De l'auteur de, "Mémoires d'une famille Acadienne de Van Buren, Maine" Du texte: "Cet album est une collection de 'dits' et de 'faits' recueillis dans…

  • Author: Michaud, A.J.

Date: 1972

Language: en

Find in a Library: 7979993

Collection of newspaper articles, essays, and images in an illustration of Acadian cultural heritage at the US-Canada border. From the Madawaska Historical Society in the St. John River Valley of northern Maine.

  • Author: Belisle, Monique

Date: 1985

Language: English

Find in a Library: 13196749

Cookbook with 144 pages of recipes for snacks and meals. Includes both the popular surf dishes of southern Maine and some traditional Franco American selections, among others. In her introduction, long time Ogunquit chef Monique Belisle writes, "when…

  • Author: Poland, Alex
  • Author: Adams, Erin

Date: 2003

Language: English

Find in a Library: None

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Outline of Franco American history, traditional practices, cultural norms. Culminates in suggestions to healthcare providers for communicating with Franco Americans. Published online by the Child Welfare Training Institute, Muskie School of Public…

  • Author: Lévesque, Aurore Nadeau

Date: 1984

Language: Français

Find Online: 16048962

Watch/Listen: http://books.google.com/books?id=dXyjAAAACAAJ&dq=levesque%3B+recettes+et+remedes+de+nos+grand-meres&hl=en&ei=Owh1TNS-BMH78AbEwbGjBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA

  • Author: Asselin, E. Donald

Date: 1968

Language: English

Find in a Library: 441804

Culturally specific cookbook from a Vermont writer. Franco American cuisine in French Canadian heritage.

  • Author: Robbins, Rhea Côté (editor)
  • Author: Petrie, Lanette Landry (editor)
  • Author: Langellier, Kristin (editor)
  • Author: Slott, Kathryn (editor)

Date: 1995

Language: en; fr

Find in a Library: 34344246

A selection of women's writings - fiction, poetry, essay, journalism - that have appeared in the University of Maine Franco-American Centre's publication, "Le FAROG Forum." Le Forum is a periodical dedicated to issues related to the Franco American…

  • Author: Nos Histoires de l'Ile

Date: 2005

Language: English

Find in a Library: 40721859

A cookbook from the "Nos Histoires de l'Ile" group, with local and family recipes from the homes of French Island in Old Town, Maine. Compiled by the community group that provides us with the French Island history book of the same title.

  • Author: Pelletier, Martine
  • Author: Ferretti, Monica Dionne

Date: 1979

Language: en

Find in a Library: 5336702

Find Online: OL4434389M

A history of the people of Van Buren, Maine, with a heavy emphasis on local folklore. Includes a large collection of images of town buildings both past and present, historic documents, family trees, local advertisements, and local maps.

  • Author: Cyr, Marguerite

Date: 1977

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 18597494

Une histoire culturelle des Acadiens de la Vallée St-Jean dans le Maine, présentée dans les mémoires d'une famille acadienne de Van Buren. Six chapitres racontés avec les photos et les materiaux historiques d'une famille du Maine:…

  • Author: Coté, Gertrude M.

Date: 1953

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8811829

Autobiographical collection of essays that chronicle a Franco American's family life in western Maine in the first half of the twentieth century. Includes one chapter on the history of Rumford, Maine.

  • Author: April, Susan
  • Author: Brouillette, Paul
  • Author: Marion, Paul
  • Author: St. Onge, Marie Louise

Date: 1999

Language: en

Find in a Library: 40471565

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A selection of various literatures from Franco-American New England writers. From the Introduction: "In these poems and essays we have four people, artists, holding the threads of a fading ethnic subculture and tying the ends tightly to the fabric of…

  • Author: Tetreau Brandt, Claire
  • Author: McCune Irvine, Patricia

Date: 2006

Language: English

Find in a Library: 123028893

Biography of a Franco-American girl growing up in Southern Maine at the beginning of the twentieth century.

  • Author: Sage, Doris
  • Author: Stauffer, Ann Tholen

Date: 1976

Language: English and français

Find in a Library: 1439951

A collection of Franco-American folklore from the northern communities of the state of Vermont. From the foreword to the text: "We have tried to assemble here some of the folklore of the French-American that we have been able to find in the past year…

  • Author: Ledoux, Denis (editor)

Date: 1991

Language: English

Find in a Library: 23009726

In this 1991 anthology, Denis Ledoux places together the poetry and short fiction prose of thirteen authors in an effort to illustrate the range of the contemporary Franco-American artistic voice. All of the pieces included in this collection might…

  • Author: Labonté, Robert

Date: 1992

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 27851198

Une grande texte qui contient des photos, poèsie, quelques recettes populaires, et des vieux blagues de la vallée St. Jean dans le comté Aroostook du Maine, sur la frontière des Etats-Unis et la Nouveau-Brunswick.

  • Author: Desjardins, Lise A.

Date: 1995

Thesis Type: M.S., Nursing

Institution: University of Maine at Orono

Language: en

Find in a Library: 34127818

From the author: "The purpose of this thesis was to explore and describe the health and illness beliefs of a Franco-American community in Northern Maine. A major assumption of this study was that culture impacts all aspects of life and therefore…

  • Author: Madore, Nelson (editor)
  • Author: Rodrigue, Barry H. (editor)
  • Author: Miller, Corinna (editor)
  • Author: Hébert, Chase (editor)
  • Author: Beaupré, Normand (French language editor)

Date: 2007

Language: en

Find in a Library: 131062883

Celebrated collection of essays, stories, poems, songs, art, and other works on the history of Franco American people and their communities in Maine. Features the following writings by their respective authors, in order of appearance: Foreword by…