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  • Author: Plante, David

Date: 1994 Summer

Publication: The South Atlantic Quarterly

Volume: 93

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1642494, 42413446

Short autobiographical essay from writer David Plante on his youth in a Franco American, Roman Catholic parish of twentieth-century Providence RI. Considers some influences on, and tendencies in, his writing. Republished, along with other articles in…

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  • Author: Kaell, Hillary

Date: 2007

Publication: Historical Studies

Volume: 73

Language: en

Find in a Library: 12864095

Read: Full text

From a publication of the Canadian Catholic Historical Association. Essay that situates the early-twentieth-century "mystic stigmatic" figure of Marie-Rose Ferron in a Franco American religious history. Using Ferron's biography as measure, Kaell sees…

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  • Author: Rice-DeFosse, Mary

Date: 1999

Publication: The River Review / La Revue rivière

Volume: 5

Language: English and français

Find in a Library: 33064369

Critical essay on Waterville, Maine writer Rhea CoÌ‚té Robbins' 1997 memoir, "Wednesday's Child." Explores Robbins' work as it speaks newly to concepts of gender, cultural difference, and the specificity of a Franco American's experiences of…

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  • Author: Proulx, E. Annie

Date: 1993-1994 Winter

Publication: Hungry Mind Review

Volume: 28

Language: English

Find in a Library: 13291726

Review of "I Had a Father: A Post-Modern Biography" by Clark Blaise. According to Proulx - author of such titles as "Postcards," "The Shipping News," and "Brokeback Mountain" - the book captures fragments of the life of Blaise's itinerant and…

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  • Author: Sharrow, Gregory L.

Date: 2001 November

Publication: Visit'n: Conversations with Vermonters

Volume: 7

Language: English

Find in a Library: 36559489

Article compiled from oral history interviews with two sisters of the Pellerin family in Highgate, Vermont. Featured in the Vermont Folklife Center's annual publication, "Visit'n."

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  • Author: Sharrow, Gregory L.

Date: 2001 November

Publication: Visit'n: Conversations with Vermonters

Volume: 7

Language: English

Find in a Library: 36559489

Article compiled from an oral history interview with a resident of the town of Highgate, Vermont, situated in a rural part of the state near to the US border with Canada. Featured in the Vermont Folklife Center's annual publication, "Visit'n."

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  • Author: Sharrow, Gregory L.

Date: 1997-11-00

Publication: Visit'n: Conversations with Vermonters

Volume: 3

Language: en

Find in a Library: 36559489

Article compiled from oral history interviews Vermont stonecutters of the early twentieth century. Featured in the Vermont Folklife Center's annual publication, "Visit'n." From the Vermont Historical Society: "Because many French Canadians first came…

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  • Author: Sharrow, Gregory L.

Date: 2002-11-00

Publication: Visit'n: Conversations with Vermonters

Volume: 8

Language: en

Find in a Library: 36559489

Article compiled from oral history interviews of Vermont musicians in the twentieth century. Featured in the Vermont Folklife Center's annual publication, "Visit'n." From the Vermont Historical Society: "Includes reminisces by Franco-American fiddler…

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  • Author: Brière, Eloise A.

Date: 2002 Spring/Summer

Publication: Québec Studies

Volume: 33

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 60628349

Un essai qui explore l'étendue de l'imagination culturel des écrivains culturellement hybride en Amérique. De l'auteur: "Dans quelle mesure les Haitiens devenus écrivains Québécois ou les Canadiens-francais devenus écrivains…

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  • Author: DeRoche, Celeste

Date: 1996 December

Publication: The Oral History Review

Volume: 23

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1793844, 45954894

Historiographical essay on the dearth and fragmentation of source material relevant to working class Franco Americans - especially Franco American women. Considers the published reality that is "la survivance" in relation to the lived realities of…

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  • Author: Banks, Ann

Date: 1980 (1991)

Language: en

Find in a Library: 6448346

Find Online: OL7452912M

Edited and annotated compilation of oral histories from the Federal Writers' Project of the 1930s Works Progress/Projects Administration (WPA) in the United States. These selections come mostly in the form of short passages that aspiring writers…

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  • Author: Manseau, Peter

Date: 2005

Language: English

Find in a Library: 60373489

The biography of a Catholic nun and a Catholic priest in Boston, Massachusetts - their work and their faith, their marriage and their family - written by their son. Moves through the author's youth and his own unique relationship with faith and…

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  • Author: Gosselin, Henri

Date: 2001

Language: English

Find in a Library: 47671730

Fictional account of a French missionary to the Huron people in colonial New France on the eastern half of modern-day Canada. From the back of the text: "A historical novel based on the true story of Eustache Lambert's heroic service as a devoted…

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  • Author: Fillion, Maurice C.

Date: 2006

Language: English

Find in a Library: 72521692

Autobiography of a New Hampshire man and his "search for personal identity" through ethnicity and religion, in and out of the lifestyle of a Roman Catholic Priest. From the back cover: "Maurice Fillion was five when his father died. Singled out by…

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  • Author: Chassé, Paul P.

Date: 1977

Language: Français, with some English

Find in a Library: 5280413

Un livre qui raconte les vies de quelques franco-américain(e)s artistiques dans les milieux de l'écrire, le peintre, la poésie, les chansons, etc. Des sélections de leurs ouevres populaires. Présenté avec des…

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  • Author: Chartier, Armand

Date: 1981

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 10358959

From the catalog description: "A 'petite anthologie' of ten 19th and 20th century French-American authors." Includes selections from their work, chosen as literary representations of the Franco American ethnic reality up to the second half of the…

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  • Author: Charters, Ann

Date: 1973

Language: English

Find in a Library: 6065241

Seminal biography of native of Lowell, Massachusetts, Franco American, novelist, and poet, Jack Kerouac. Republished in 1994. Written by Ann Charters, who worked with Kerouac during the final three years of his life. In her writing of this book,…

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  • Author: Caffee, Gabrielle Leboeuf

Date: 1993

Language: English

Find in a Library: 266161022

Experimental, semi-biographical fiction about the movement of people and culture through Bas Canada et les États-Unis. A self-proclaimed "case study" of imagined ancestral movement from North to South, and the evolution of culture along that…

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  • Author: Branham, Robert J.
  • Author: Francoeur, Lynn
  • Author: Surkis, William D.

Date: 1992

Language: English

Find in a Library: 28185042

From the Lewiston Sun Journal: "The documentary tells the story of a strike that involved thousands of shoe workers and more than a dozen factories in Lewiston and Auburn [Maine]. Seeking higher wages and recognition of their union affiliation with…

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  • Author: Austin, Mark D. (director)

Date: 2010 June 24

Language: English

Maine Public Broadcasting Network television show focusing on news, events, and people important to the state of Maine. Here, part two of a three-part episode. "Franco-Americans in Photos" is an interview with journalist Dyke Hendrickson, author of…

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  • Author: Chiasson, Herménégilde

Date: 1987

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 40932967

Read: Watch/Regarder: FILM

Part-fiction documentary on the life and works of Jack Kerouac, a writer from Lowell, Massachusetts, most famous for his Beat Generation novel, "On the Road." Pris de l'ONF: "Docufiction sur Jack Kerouac, un des membres les plus importants du…

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  • Author: Sharkey, Jim (writer & producer)

Date: 2004

Language: English

Find in a Library: 661411507

Full title of the film: "Hard Work: 'To Make Both Ends Meet' : Maine Women's Voices, 1888." From Folkfilms.com: "In 1888 the Maine State Bureau of Industrial and Labor Statistics conducted a survey to assess working conditions for women in the…

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

Date: 2010 March 18

Language: English, with some français

Find in a Library: 3190 (BCTV)

A public television broadcast out of Bedford, New Hampshire, "Bonjour" features highlights of Quebec and New England for the purpose of re-educating New Hampshire about the breadth of its French heritage, seen across the state in its Franco…

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  • 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.

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

Date: 2010 June 1

Language: English

Find in a Library: 3285 (BCTV)

The third episode of Plante's and Baribeau's public broadcast, "Bonjour," taking its viewers on a trip through Montreal and Quebec City and giving plenty of advice to vacationers-to-be.

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

Date: 2010

Language: English, with some français

Find in a Library: 3338 (BCTV)

The fourth episode of public television's "Bonjour" takes place on site at Manchester, New Hampshire's Franco-American Centre, featuring interviews with some of the staff there and a special feature on the 2010 New Hampshire Franco-American of the…

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  • Author: Paige, Abby (moderator)

Date: 2010 June 27

Language: English

A roundtable discussion led by writer Abby Paige about Franco American heritage in Vermont with respect to the themes in Ben Levine's film, "Reveil!" From the Center for Media and Democracy: " 'Réveil! -- Waking Up French' is a powerful…

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  • Author: Rosenblum, Nina

Date: 1984

Language: English

Find in a Library: 36332787

Documentary film about twentieth-century photographer and historian Lewis Hine, most famous for exposing poor working conditions and child labor in industrial America. Hine, as seen in this film, was also the photographer commissioned to capture on…

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  • Author: WCAX-TV

Date: 2001

Language: English

Students at North Country Union High School in Newport, Vermont are champions of the 2001 Cyberfair, a worldwide website design competition. Their site, LifeonTheBorder.com (no longer in service), was about their Franco American community's heritage,…

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  • Author: Martin, Jane

Date: 2010 September 7

Language: English and français

Read: Listen: AUDIO

Episode of a CBC broadcast, "C'est la vie," whose feature is Franco American life in southern Maine. Biddeford, the hometown of narrator Jane Martin, is the episode's main setting. Contains interviews with Martin's aunt and parents in Biddeford and…

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