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  • Author: Kerouac, Jack

Date: 1999-00-00

Language: en

Find in a Library: 40698633

Collection of selected correspondence between writer Jack Kerouac and friends, other literary figures, and some family from 1957 to the author's death in 1969. Includes letters to William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg; Lawrence Ferlinghetti;…

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  • Author: Kerouac, Jack

Date: 2004-00-00

Language: en

Find in a Library: 55962427

Edited selections from the personal, previously unpublished writings of writer Jack Kerouac, from 1947 to 1954. Daily thoughts and travel logs presented together with more formal musings. Contains two sections of personal journal entries and work…

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  • Author: Chase, Kim

Date: 2006 Winter

Publication: Descant

Volume: 37

Language: English

Find in a Library: 2380621

Storied reflections on the familial inheritance of an author's personal relationship with dirt. Cleaning habits, life lessons, and attitudes of the author's matriarchs toward the cleanliness of one's home and the neat order of oneself. How her…

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  • Author: Gauvreau, Emile

Date: 1941

Language: English

Find in a Library: 334962

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Autobiography of famed newspaperman, Emile Gavreau. His youth in the first decade of the twentieth century in New Haven, Connecticut, and among family in Montréal. A family's pervasive Catholicism; an early attachment to reading; intimate…

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  • Author: Pinette, Susan

Date: 2012-spr/sum

Publication: Québec Studies

Volume: 53

Language: en; fr

Find in a Library: 60628349

Article exploring critically how contemporary Franco American authors use the French language in their works to signify Franco American ethnicity. Discussion and comparison of two works and their creators: Normand Beaupré's coming of age novel…

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  • Author: Cormier, Robert

Date: 1991

Language: English

Find in a Library: 22239995

Book-length collection of 85 selected newspaper columns and magazine pieces written by famed author Robert Cormier of Leominster, Massachusetts, published between 1951 and 1980. Writings featured in this text were printed in the "Fitchburg Sentinel…

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  • Author: Kerouac, Jack

Date: 1990

Language: English

Find in a Library: 23129491

Short compilation of selected, transcribed segments of interviews conducted with Jack Kerouac between 1957 and 1969. Some of Kerouac's thoughts on ancestry, the Beat Generation, literature, his writing, Buddhism, Catholicism, family, and his hometown…

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  • Author: Barrows, Gridley
  • Author: Kirk, Geneva

Date: 1982

Language: en

Find in a Library: 8863341

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The third book in a series on the history of Lewiston, Maine, Historic Lewiston, from the Lewiston Historical Commission. Historic Lewiston: Its Government is a 3-part, 53-page overview of Lewiston's town and city government from incorporation, to…

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  • Author: Vetter, Craig

Date: 1984 March

Publication: Outside

Volume: 9

Language: English

Find in a Library: 6050977

Magazine feature on American climber, outdoors enthusiast, and entrepreneur, Yvon Chouinard, founder of the Patagonia company. Profile of Chouinard's climbing adventures, his company's successes, and the convergence of a love for the outdoors with a…

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  • Author: Toth, Emily

Date: 1981 December

Publication: The Journal of Popular Culture

Volume: 15

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1754751

Article profiling Manchester, New Hampshire native writer, Grace (de Repentigny) Metalious. Summary and analysis of her best-selling scandalous novel, "Peyton Place," her reportedly favorite novel, "The Tight White Collar," and her final work, "No…

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  • Author: Doty, C. Stewart

Date: 1989/1990-win

Publication: Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d'études canadiennes

Volume: 24

Language: en

Find in a Library: 816138

Article on the changing roles of North American francophone intellectuals in New England in the 1920s and 1930s: from clerics and political leaders at home in Québec, to an attachment to the United States and a process of cultural conservation…

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  • Author: Willis, John

Date: 2006

Book Title: Envoyer et recevoir : lettres et correspondances dans les diasporas francophones

Language: en, fr

Find in a Library: 76870372

Essay on the function of the personal letter in historiography. How trails of correspondence between French Canadians in Canada and the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries tell us about French Canadian migration: migrants,…

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  • Author: Martineau, France
  • Author: Avard, Annie

Date: 2006

Book Title: Envoyer et recevoir : lettres et correspondances dans les diasporas francophones

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 76870372

Une analyse de 44 lettres échangées en 1880 par des membres d'une famille à travers la frontière entre les États-Unis et Canada - de la ville de Montréal aux mines de Leadville, Colorado. Quelques explications sur les notions de la…

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  • Author: Martel, Marcel

Date: 2006

Book Title: Envoyer et recevoir : lettres et correspondances dans les diasporas francophones

Language: fr; en

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Une exploration de la correspondance par lettre d'un père à son fils au début du XXe siècle, entre deux villes de la Nouvelle-Angleterre - Rutland, Vermont et Springfield, Massachusetts. L'étude d'une correspondance privée afin de…

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  • Author: Morency, Jean

Date: 2006

Book Title: Envoyer et recevoir : lettres et correspondances dans les diasporas francophones

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 76870372

Un essai qui examine des lettres sélectionnées d'un intellectuel et un écrivain québécois aux États-Unis au début du XXe siècle - Louis Dantin - et ses pairs canadien-français - Olivar Asselin, Rosaire Dion-Lévesque, et…

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  • Author: Lagassé, Julie de Champlain

Date: 1952

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 22391365

Le carnet de route d'une artiste qui a quitté son mari et ses enfants à Boston afin de voyager vers la France et l'Italie. "L'Étoile blanche" est le nom qu'elle donne au navire qu'elle prend à travers l'Atlantique. Comprend une partie de…

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  • Author: Lambert, George J.

Date: 2008

Language: English

Find in a Library: Unknown

Military stories and individual histories of the military duties of six Augusta, Maine brothers - Armand, Laurent, Paul, Jean, William, and Louis Lambert. Written by the family's youngest son, George. Narrative covers enlistment periods and active…

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  • Author: Peloquin, Marthe Biron (coéditrice)
  • Author: Ducharme, Sr. Marie-Jeanne (coéditrice)

Date: 1984

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 49677769

Les actes du 16e congreÌ€s biennal de la Fédération Féminine Franco-Américaine de la Nouvelle-Angleterre tenu au College Rivier, Nashua, New Hampshire les 27, 28 et 29 avril 1984. Constituent égalemente le Bulletin de la…

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  • Author: Leblond, Henri

Date: 1976

Language: en

Find in a Library: 47954319

Historical anniversary portrait of Pawtucket and Central Falls, Rhode Island, Franco American fraternal organization, Le Foyer. Includes English transcripts of three significant speeches held at organization events; a section of facts about the…

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  • Author: Lacourcière, Luc

Date: 1972 May 2

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1950581

Paper outlining a proposed bibliography of New England French folklore. Describes an inventory of materials on New England French popular tradition - folklore, folk song, legend - being collected and cataloged at the Archives de Folklore,…

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  • Author: Vallée, Rudy

Date: 1930

Language: en

Find in a Library: 910206

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Original autobiography of twentieth-century singer and musician, Rudy Vallée, who was born in Island Pond, Vermont and spent his youth in Westbrook, Maine. His early life, time at the University of Maine and Yale University, and his early music…

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  • Author: Vallée, Rudy
  • Author: McKean, Gil

Date: 1962

Language: English

Find in a Library: 488031

Memoirs of twentieth-century singer and musician, Rudy Vallée. Co-authored. Stories from his early life in Westbrook, Maine, and his college years in New Haven, Connecticut. Events along his rise to stardom, and the varieties of entertainment he…

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  • Author: Tirone Smith, Mary-Ann

Date: 2006

Language: English

Find in a Library: 61151630

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Memoir of a woman growing up in the immigrant city of Hartford, Connecticut in the 1950s. Her French Canadian and Italian relatives, her childhood, early adulthood, and the processes of recollecting them. Divided into five parts: Mortality; Brain…

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  • Author: Rossignol, Matthew Albert

Date: 1996

Language: English

Find in a Library: 40651518

Memories of a childhood summer in the author's hometown of Van Buren, Maine, with one week spent on a vacation in Portland. Focuses on friendship, family, and baseball.

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  • Author: Maher, Paul, Jr.

Date: 2004

Language: English

Find in a Library: 52347737

Recent historical biography of Lowell, Massachusetts writer, Jack Kerouac. Based largely on primary sources. Written by an independent scholar whose childhood and later life was also spent in Lowell.

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  • Author: Arsenault, Idamay Michaud

Date: 1999

Language: en

Find in a Library: 43496038

Find Online: OL55423M

History of Worcester, Massachusett's Union Station. Its various shapes and transformations from its initial construction in 1875 and reconstruction in 1911, through its closure in 1964, to its 1999 restoration. The place of the station in French…

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  • Author: Bérubé, Georgette

Date: 2004

Language: English

Find in a Library: 61458038

Memoirs and selected speeches of a Maine state legislator from the city of Lewiston. Contains commentary on some of the campaigns, issues, actors, and events significant to Bérubé and her career in Maine politics between 1970 and 2000. Some…

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  • Author: Lalande, Louis, S.J.

Date: 1907

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 427229617

Collection de lettres envoyées par P. Louis Lalande, S.J., à son ami Arthur Prévost, du Québec, du Canada, des fois aux États-Unis, et d'ailleurs. Rend une chronique de la vie du prêtre et de sa relation avec son ami. Publiée…

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  • Author: Baribault, Arthur-Octave (rédacteur)

Date: 1899

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 8289902

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Livre qui présente les "minutes des Conventions Nationales des Canadiens-Américains de l'état du Connecticut," enregistrées de 13 congreÌ€s nationaux entre 1885 et 1898. Divisées par année et par rencontre, ces…

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  • Author: Fitzpatrick, Antonio

Date: 1925

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 4433061

Historique de la Société St. Jean-Baptiste de Bienfaisance de New York City depuis sa fondation à 1850, publiée dans la célébration de son 75e anniversaire. Des événements majeurs impliquant la société à New York…

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