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- Author: Downs, Jacques M.
Date: 1985
Language: en
Find in a Library: 12419914
Find Online: OL2535469M
A photo-history of the cities of the Saco River Valley in southern Maine. A heavily researched and crafted exhibition of landscapes from colonization to contemporary times, 'The Cities on the Saco' weaves a storytelling tapestry of Saco, Biddeford,…
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Author: Leamon, James S.
- Author: Michaud, Charlotte
Date: 1974
Language: English
Find in a Library: 3531925
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The first book in a series on the history of Lewiston, Maine, Historic Lewiston, from the Lewiston Historical Commission. Historic Lewiston: Franco-American Origins is a 47-page overview of Lewiston’s Franco American past, divided into two…
- Author: Badeau, Marie
Date: 1996
Language: en
Find in a Library: 37583574
A parish history of SS. Peter and Paul in Lewiston, Maine, up to the year 1996 - before the church's dedication as a basilica. An overview of the building's constructions, the parish's resident priests, and the Franco American community's…
- Author: SS. Peter & Paul Parish
Date: 1946
Language: fr
Find in a Library: 18428495
De l'avant-propos: "Lieu de rencontre du Ciel et de la Terre, temoin de l'effusion des tendresses divines et des accents sinceres du culte chretien, l'eglise paroissiale est l'ame qui fait battre le couer de la population franco-américaine....On…
- Author: Daigle, Laurel
Date: 1997
Language: en
Find in a Library: 53965947
Brief parish history of the Roman Catholic church of Saint Louis and the communities surrounding Fort Kent, Maine. Text includes biographies of resident religious leaders, a history of the church building's construction and reconstruction, and a…
- Author: Lee, Anthony W.
Date: 2008
Language: en
Find in a Library: 171048914
Find Online: OL20734799M
A history of photography, shoemaking, mining, and immigration as they converged on North Adams, Massachusetts, in the 1870s. From the text: "...[this book] is concerned...with the industrialization of a New England craft at one of its key historical…
- Author: Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of Maine
Date: 1937
Language: en
Find in a Library: 255008
Find Online: @ Open Library
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State guidebook produced by the Maine Works Progress Administration's Federal Writers' Project in the 1930s. Installment in the American Guide Series: a collection of state travel guides and coffee tables books. Includes extensive descriptions of…
- Author: Samson, Gary
Date: 2000
Language: en
Find in a Library: 46874965
Pictorial history of the communities in and around the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company's mill complex in Manchester, New Hampshire. The rise and fall of Amoskeag, in photos. A volume in the broad-ranging "Images of America" series of books. Previously…
- Author: Chartier, Armand
Date: 1993
Language: en
Find in a Library: 38570305
A brief history of the Franco Americans in New Bedford, Massachusetts. About half of the text is dedicated to the role of New Bedford's Catholic churches, while the remainder addresses New Bedford's community life, work, the French language, and…
- 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: Brière, Eloise
Date: 1986
Language: en; fr
Find in a Library: 34578272
French heritage travel and resource guide to New York state, divided by region and described by town and city. From the foreword to the text: "Continuing the tradition begun in the 17th century, French and Canadian ties flourish in New York which…
- Author: Connors-Carlson, Shirlee
Date: 2001
Language: en
Find in a Library: 49045997
A pictorial history of life and logging in St. John, Maine, at the beginning of the twentieth century. Includes some pictures that are featured in the book "Acadian Hard Times" (Stewart Doty, 1991), as well as many others that capture the households…
- Author: Beaudoin, Rachelle (editor, illustrator)
Date: 2009
Language: English and français
Find in a Library: 501976693
A dictionary of Berlin, New Hampshire, colloquial terms. Equal parts Franco American euphemism, persistent French vernacular in the English language, and words for things and places particular to the community of Berlin. The author writes: "'The…
- Author: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Date: 2004
Language: English
Find in a Library: 56903271
Maine native Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem about "le Grand Dérangement" - the Acadian Expulsion - and one Acadian woman's rampant search for a love lost. This text also includes an introduction, a brief historical sketch of the Acadians,…
- Author: Fairfield, Roy P.
Date: 1956 (2003)
Language: en
Find in a Library: 3085526
Find Online: OL2044914W
A history of the coastal and industrial city of Saco, Maine, from its inception to the 1950s. Written by a Saco native. The inside cover reads: "In a rich and vivid history, documented with record, with facts bearing evidence of infinitely rewarding…
- Author: Van Lent, Peter C.
Date: 1988
Language: en
Find in a Library: 20845209
Find Online: OL1782127M
A professor of folklore offers here a study of the Franco Americans in northern New York state. He explores the themes of religion, family, work, and language, and interrogates their symbols in the folklore and folk art of Malone, New York and a…
- 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: Paroisse St-Bruno (St. Bruno Parish)
Date: 1938
Language: fr
Find in a Library: 301814327
Une histoire de la Paroisse St-Bruno de Van Buren, Maine, entre 1838 et 1938. Ecrit pour l'occasion de la centième année de cette paroisse dans la Vallée St-Jean. Contiens photos des curés et des soeurs paroissials, aussi que les…
- Author: Mcgrath, Anna Fields
Date: 1989
Language: en
Find in a Library: 19509718
Subtitled, "A Pictorial History of Aroostook County, Maine." A celebration of Aroostook County's 150th year. A pictorial regional history consisting of general narrative and more intimate, anecdotal accounts of the place in present-day northern Maine…
- Author: Allain, Mathé (editor)
- Author: Brasseaux, Carl A. (editor)
Date: 1982
Volume: 7 of 8
Language: en
Find in a Library: 65236969 (volumes 1 through 6)
Volume 7 of an eight-part series on Franco American history and life. Concerned specifically with "Postbellum Louisiana." Contains the following essays: "The Splendid Mystery of the Civil Code of Louisiana" - Albert Tate, Jr., "Early New Orleans…
- Author: Allain, Mathé (editor)
- Author: Brasseaux, Carl A. (editor)
Date: 1982
Volume: 8 of 8
Language: en; fr
Find in a Library: 6523696 (volumes 1 through 6)
Volume 8 of an eight-part series on Franco American history and life. Concerned specifically with "French Louisiana in the Twentieth Century." Contains the following essays: "Les Acadiens au XXe siecle" - Margeurite Roman, "Acadians and Acadians" -…
- Author: Beaupré, Norman
Date: 2008
Language: English
Find in a Library: 304550258
From the author's website: "Professor Emeritus Beaupré enjoyed teaching world literature and French Impressionism as well as Post-Impressionism during his college career. Over the years, he developed a special liking for Van Gogh, the man, his…
- Author: Beaupré, Norman
Date: 2010
Language: English
Find in a Library: None
From the author: "This novel can be seen as a companion work to Beaupré's recent publication on Van Gogh. Both are based on the historical and aesthetic facts surrounding the lives of the two artists, Van Gogh in Arles and Friant in the…
- Author: Touchette, Charleen
Date: 2004
Language: English
Find in a Library: 56615738
From Touch Art Books: "This story with its bold contrasts of good and bad, love and hate, inextricably connected, is situated in the context of the bigger history of French Canadian and Indian people amid mainstream American culture from the mid…
- Author: Fecteau, Albert
Date: 1952
Thesis Type: M.A., History
Institution: University of Maine at Orono
Language: en
Find in a Library: 6965308
From the text: "While there have been a number of books and articles on the French Canadians in New England, very little has been written about the French Canadians in Maine. This thesis presents a study of a typical Maine French Canadian community,…
- Author: Schwartzwald, Robert
Date: 1987 spring
Publication: The Massachusetts Review
Volume: 28
Language: en
Find in a Library: 482941102
An essay on how photographer Ulrich Bourgeois captured the French Canadian ways of living that persisted and developed individually in early 20th-century Franco America. How Bourgeois, knowingly or not, worked to preserve a period of Franco American…
- 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…