Advanced Search | Selected Subjects | Tags



Items | Articles (398 total)





Deprecated: The each() function is deprecated. This message will be suppressed on further calls in /home/francoli/public_html/application/helpers/Functions.php on line 180

  • Author: Dill, Thomas

Date: 1992 May 29

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8814143, 60630676

Letter to the editor questioning the motives of Nancy Albert Ellis in her filing suit against Le Club Calumet of Augusta, Maine, for refusing her a membership based on her sex - a suit she eventually lost in the Maine Supreme Court.

Tags: , , , , , , ,

  • Author: Hale, Karlene K.

Date: 1992 May 23-24

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8814143, 60630676

In May, 1992, the Maine State Supreme Court ruled that Le Club Calumet, a Franco-American men's club in Augusta, Maine, can exclude women as members from its organization. This decision was based on the court's finding that the Club was, in fact, a…

Tags: , , , , , ,

  • Author: Violette, Maurice

Date: 1992 May 28

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8814143, 60630676

Letter to the editor berating Augusta, Maine's Kennebec Journal for its selective coverage of the controversy involving Le Club Calumet and Nancy Ellis - a battle over gender and club membership that landed both parties in the Maine Supreme Court.

Tags: , , , , , , ,

  • Author: St. Hilaire, Eleanor

Date: 1992 May 28

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8814143, 60630676

Letter to the editor questioning the meaning of the phrase "equal rights" as it has been used in the conversation between Nancy Albert Ellis and the all-male Club Calumet of Augusta, Maine.

Tags: , , , , , , , ,

  • Author: Stevens, Deane S.

Date: 1992 May 28

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8814143, 60630676

Letter to the editor that claims to be in support of the Maine Supreme Court decision to protect the all-male Le Club Calumet's freedom of association.

Tags: , , , , , , ,

  • Author: Cartwright, Steve

Date: 1992 October 22

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8814143, 60630676

Nancy Albert Ellis' father and uncle, Demetrius and Henry Albert, were suspended by Le Club Calumet after refusing to appear before their executive board to discuss their public support of Ellis' controversial bid for membership in the all-male,…

Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

  • Author: Hale, Karlene K.

Date: 1992 July 16

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8814143, 60630676

Nancy Albert Ellis, a woman whose membership application to Le Club Calumet in Augusta, Maine, was denied based on her sex, and who lost a legal battle with the Club that was taken all the way to the Maine Supreme Court, does not appeal the decision…

Tags: , , , , , , ,

  • Author: Cline, Claire

Date: 1992 November 5

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8814143, 60630676

Letter to the editor calling for gender equality in cutural organizations. This comes in support of Nancy Albert Ellis, whose bid to join the Calumet Club in Augusta, Maine, was rejected, and ultimately denied in a decision by the Maine Supreme…

Tags: , , , , , , ,

  • Author: Bickerman, Karen L.

Date: 1992 November 5

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8814143, 60630676

Letter to the editor berating Le Club Calumet of Augusta, Maine, for its refusal of Nancy Albert Ellis' membership bid on account of her sex. The author seeks a peaceful resolution to what became a controversial issue surrounding the inclusion of…

Tags: , , , , , , , ,

  • Author: Metzler, Rebekah

Date: 2010 March 18

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8814143, 60630676

Four Maine residents - Severin Beliveau, Norman Angers, Annette Daigle, and Jean Dionne - were inducted into the Franco-American Hall of Fame at the State House in Augusta, Maine.

Tags: , , , , , , ,

  • Author: Quimby, Beth

Date: 2010 May 12

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8814143, 60630676

French consul general to Boston, Cristophe Guilhou, makes a tour of Maine guided by Severin Beliveau. Guilou's visit comes in preparation of an October 2010 Maine/France trade mission. Article originally written for the Portland Press Herald.

Tags: , , , ,

  • Author: Brack, Ken

Date: 1989 December 5

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8814143, 60630676

Maine state officials discuss efforts to investigate the cause of the Edwards Mill fire in the winter of 1989, on the shore of the Kennebec River in Augusta, Maine.

Tags: , , , , , ,

  • Author: Edwards, Keith

Date: 2010 February 9

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8814143, 60630676

French teachers and Franco advocates plan to speak at upcoming Board of Education meeting. Their comments will come in response to the City of Augusta, Maine, school superintendent, Cornelia Brown, in her presentation of an upcoming school budget…

Tags: , , ,

  • Author: Edwards, Keith

Date: 2009 April 28

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8814143, 60630676

The City of Augusta, Maine seizes the eastside paper mill, formerly known as "Statler Tissue," with the stated purpose of demolition for potential development. According to the Kennebec Journal, the mill closed in 2001.

Tags: , , , ,

  • Author: Edwards, Keith

Date: 2010 February 11

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8814143, 60630676

Supporters of a number of educational programs - including elementary French - threatened by cuts to the Augusta, Maine, city budget make their voices heard at a Board of Education public forum.

Tags: , , , ,

  • Author: Hale, John

Date: 2009 August 20

Publication: Capital Weekly

Language: English

Find in a Library: 32437699, 60623303

The demolition of the Augusta, Maine, east-side paper mill, which began June 2010, continues in plain view on the bank of the Kennebec River.

Tags: , , , ,

  • Author: Paradis, Patrick

Date: 1980 October 16

Publication: Church World: Maine's Catholic Weekly

Language: English

Find in a Library: 4038541

Extended article on Augusta, Maine, Roman Catholic priest, Fr. Valmond Gilbert, celebrant of St. Augustine Church. Discusses his community involvement - religious, economic, political, and otherwise. Includes photos of Fr. Gilbert at mass, with…

Tags: , , , , , ,

  • Author: Thoet, Denis

Date: 2009 December 4

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8814143, 60630676

Humorous opinion piece on Maine as an American outcast state, sharing more in common with its Canadian neighbors than with the people and places of its neighboring American states.

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

  • Author: Manlove, George

Date: 1994 September 14

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8814143, 60630676

Some older tenement buildings at the base of Sand Hill in Augusta, Maine, are evacuated as their demolition begins - "part of a federally funded neighborhood improvement project."

Tags: , , , ,

  • Author: Violette, Maurice

Date: 1975 July 12

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8814143, 60630676

Excerpt from the forthcoming book, "The Franco-Americans," by Augusta, Maine resident, Maurice Violette. Discusses the purported logics behind French-Canadian immigration to New England in the 19th century.

Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

  • Author: Christian Science Monitor

Date: 1915 May 26

Publication: The Christian Science Monitor

Language: English

Find in a Library: 10969332, 35351012

Article on a Lowell, Massachusetts, meeting of the Franco-American Republican Club and the election of its president.

Tags: , ,

  • Author: Christian Science Monitor

Date: 1912 September 14

Language: English

Find in a Library: 10969332, 35351012

Article on the creation of Republican political clubs in Essex County, Massachusetts, which includes the towns of Salem, Lawrence, Lynn, Merrimac, Methuen, and others.

Tags: , , , , , , , ,

  • Author: Drummond, B.J. Roscoe

Date: 1929 August 22

Publication: The Christian Science Monitor

Language: English

Find in a Library: 10969332, 35351012

Article on French-Canadian immigration as a point of concern for the American Institute of Politics, especially with regard to debt policy in the United States.

Tags: , , , ,

  • Author: Christian Science Monitor

Date: 1918 July 8

Publication: The Christian Science Monitor

Language: English

Find in a Library: 10969332, 35351012

Article on multiple criminal alcohol seizures from a number of Vermont social clubs in the 1910s.

Tags: , , ,

  • Author: Christian Science Monitor

Date: 1958 August 19

Publication: The Christian Science Monitor

Language: English

Find in a Library: 10969332, 35351012

Article on French-English roadsigns planned for Vermont highways in the 1950s.

Tags: , , , ,

  • Author: Handy, Mary

Date: 1957 March 7

Publication: The Christian Science Monitor

Language: English

Find in a Library: 10969332, 35351012

Article on a controversy surrounding the city of Augusta, Maine's allowing local private Catholic schools the use of its public buses.

Tags: , ,

  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1957 April 3

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1760220

Article on controversy surrounding city of Augusta, Maine's allowing local private Catholic schools the use of public buses. A group of citizens opposing the measure confronts Augusta City Council members.

Tags: , ,

  • Author: Ledoux, Denis

Date: 1974 July 9

Publication: The Christian Science Monitor

Language: English

Find in a Library: 10969332, 35351012

Article on the concurrent usages of French and English in 1970s Québec, and opinions as to the future of the province of Québec's language landscape. Special to the CSM written by Lisbon, Maine, author, Denis Ledoux.

Tags: , , , ,

  • Author: Boston Daily Globe

Date: 1917 May 31

Publication: Boston Daily Globe

Language: English

Find in a Library: 9497068

Article on the 1917 meeting and elections of the Massachusetts Franco-American Republican Club.

Tags: , , ,

  • Author: Boston Daily Globe

Date: 1915 August 27

Publication: Boston Daily Globe

Language: English

Find in a Library: 9497068

Article on a summer 1915 gathering of the Franco-American Democratic Club of Massachusetts in the coastal town of New Bedford.

Tags: , , ,