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- Author: Litwack, Leon
Date: 1962
Language: en
Find in a Library: 414029
Find Online: OL5852980M
A first-person history of the American labor movement - the growth of labor unions and the development of collective worker consciousness from the middle of the nineteenth century until the middle of the twentieth. A century of labor in primary…
- Author: Pipyn, Michel
Date: 1976
Language: Français
Find in a Library: 7294264
Une histoire qui nous présente à Antoine le jeune et à "des choses" qu'il fait et qu'il rencontre au cours de sa journée. Les différentes façons dans lequel il décrit ces choses - ses rêves,…
- Author: Parent, Michael
Date: Unknown
Language: English
Find in a Library: 43722227
Four short stories written for kids of all ages by "story-maker and story-teller" Michael Parent of Lewiston, Maine. Includes the titles, "Tunko the Terrible Giant," "The Princess' Ailment," "Angela the Mud Girl," and "A Blink and a Wink."
- Author: Drummond, Robert J.
- Author: McIntire, Walter G.
Date: 1980
Publication: Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied
Volume: 106
Language: en
Studies conducted by University of Maine researchers on early school-age children. Observations and evaluations of psychological self-concept. Studies measure age, sex, and ethnic heritage factors and present data and observations based on these…
- Author: Erhman, John
Date: 2006
Language: English
Find in a Library: 78299230
Made-for-TV film adaptation of a novel of the same title by Maine author K.C. McKinnon (pseudonym for Cathie Pelletier). Story of woman's return home, with her son, and her re-entry into the life of a past friend. Set in smalltown Maine. Stars Alicia…
- Author: Hyde School
- Author: Brunswick High School
- Author: Searles, James (project director)
- Author: Tibbetts, Michelle (student project director)
- Author: Best, Calvin (student project director)
Date: 1980
Language: English and français
Find in a Library: 63898970
Dramatic student portrayal of French Canadian immigration to Maine at the beginning of the twentieth century. Contains scenes of family life in Quebec, dramatic reenactment of work in the mills of Maine, prayer and party in the United States, and…
- Author: Doty, C. Stewart
Date: 1991
Language: en
Find in a Library: 22734124
Find Online: OL1865302M
Collection of photos of farmers, farm families, and landscapes in the St. John Valley, Maine, taken by the federal Farm Security Administration in the early 1940s. Doty gives historical context and new captions to the photos. The book concludes with…
- Author: Pelletier, Fran
Date: 2003
Language: English
Find in a Library: 52819582
Memoirs of Fran Pelletier. His family and his youth in rural Maine. Growing up in small town America. From the back cover: "Fran Pelletier is a rare and wonderful storyteller. He Grew up in Milford, Maine, in the 1930s....Pelletier remembers all the…
- Author: Langellier, Regis
- Author: Langellier, Pamela
Date: 2005 (1996)
Book Title: Ethnicity and Family Therapy
Language: en
Publication in psychotherapy on the historical backgrounds and cultural registers of a variety of ethnic subcultures in the United States. One essay on communicating with Franco Americans, acknowledging traditional familial roles, and understanding…
- Author: Beaupré, Norman
Date: 2010
Language: English (traduction du français)
Find in a Library: 43280504 (la version française)
English translation of "Le Petit Mangeur de Fleurs" (1999) - a work of autobiographical fiction from a Biddeford, Maine native. From the author: "Le Petit Mangeur de Fleurs (The Little Eater of Bleeding Hearts) is the story of a boy growing up and…
- Author: Mosher, Howard Frank
Date: 1983
Language: English
Find in a Library: 8845460
One of Mosher's time-tested Vermont stories, again set in his fictional Kingdom County. About a young French Canadian emigrant who endures hardship from the very beginnings of her life in the United States. Republished in 2004, to the Hardscrabble…
- Author: Mosher, Howard Frank
Date: 1977
Language: English
Find in a Library: 3168446
A Vermont family in financial straits turns to smuggling Canadian whiskey back into a Prohibition- and Depression-era America. Mosher's first novel, introducing us to the author's budding literary relationship with northern rural Vermont - an…
- Author: Beckhorn, Susan Williams
Date: 2010
Language: English, with some français
Find in a Library: 289095900
Children's book about farming, logging, a man and his grandson, and the friendship between a horse and a moose. Set in Maine. Contains illustrations of common loggers' tools. From Down East Books: "Retired logger Jean du Bois rescues an orphaned…
- Author: Currie, Ron, Jr.
Date: 2001 July/August
Publication: Eclectica
Volume: 5
Language: English
Find in a Library: 370158292
Short story about the relationship between father and son. The father, a Vietnam War veteran who speaks little of his war experience, narrates the persistence of a son whose interest in his father's war involvement drives both son and father to ask…
- Author: Plante, David
Date: 1994 Summer
Publication: The South Atlantic Quarterly
Volume: 93
Language: English
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…
- Author: Levine, Ben (director)
Date: 2003
Language: English, with some français
Find in a Library: 64637065
Documentary film about Franco American culture and language in New England. Press release from Watching Place Productions: "Explores the struggle for cultural survival among the French-Canadian, Franco-American communities of New England. It reveals…
- Author: Boudreaux, Elia
Date: 1940 March
Publication: The Modern Language Journal
Volume: 24
Language: English
A 1938-1939 argument in favor of increasing the number of Louisiana public elementary schools that teach the French language, and some thoughts on best practices in the implementation of educational programs. From the author: "This paper contains a…
- Author: Gaudreau, Carmen
Date: 1979
Language: Français
Find in a Library: 9985372
Une histoire pour les enfants de deux petits souris qui apprennent aÌ€ faire le sirop d'érable. Ecrit pour la salle de classe française. Illustrée par des dessins en noir et blanc. A children's story about two mice who learn…
- 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…
- Author: Field, Rachel
Date: 1931
Language: English
Find in a Library: 4411669
Young adult novel about a French girl orphaned upon her arrival in America. Follows her through the loss of her family, her adaptations to servitude, and her coming-of-age in the New World. Winner of a Newbery Honor Award for youth literature in…
- 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…
- Author: Olivier, Julien
Date: 1977
Language: Français
Find in a Library: 6467407
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L'histoire de Jim Caron, 101 ans, tel que raconté à Milton, New Hampshire, et rédigé par Julien Olivier. Sa famille, son travail dans les bois et dans le moulin, son école, and sa vie après son immigration…
- Author: Hagel, Phyllis
Date: 1977
Language: fr
Find in a Library: 10618549
Read: Lire: Texte intégral
Le deuxieme texte de la collection "Villes franco-ameÌricaines de la Nouvelle Angleterre." Une histoire de la ville de Berlin, New Hampshire - son peuple et son paysage. Introduit par CeÌline Fortier de Berlin. Ecrit pour les jeunes pour…
- Author: Albert, FeÌlix
Date: 1909 (1991)
Language: English (traduction du français)
Find in a Library: 21761314
Translated and republished autobiography of French-Canadian immigrant to Lowell, Massachusetts, originally made public at the beginning of the 20th century. Introduction written by Frances H. Early. From the book jacket: "This is the story of a…
- Author: Pipyn, Michel
Date: 1977
Language: fr
Find in a Library: 10627108
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Un texte de la collection "Villes franco-ameÌricaines de la Nouvelle Angleterre." Une histoire de la ville de Caribou, Maine - son peuple et son paysage. Ecrit pour les jeunes pour l'apprentissage de la langue française. Accompagné…