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- Author: Quintal, Claire
Date: 1984
Language: Français
Find in a Library: 18136947
Le cinquième colloque de l'Institut français du Collège de l'Assomption, Worcester, Massachusetts, 16-17 mars 1984. Imprimé dans un numéro du périodique "Vie Française: Revue trimestrielle,"…
- Author: Gauvin, Aimé
Date: 1976 December
Publication: Le FAROG Forum; Franco American Resources in Education
Language: English
Find in a Library: 31186541
Short personal essay written by a journalist from Maine. Reflections on leaving Maine early in life, eventually for New York City, and returning for his retirement. His early commitment to mastering English in spite of his home French, and both the…
- Author: DeCourcy, Sr. Theresa
Date: 1972 (?)
Language: English
Find in a Library: Unknown/Inconnu
Subtitled, "A Unit for Sixth Grade Students in Catholic Schools of the Diocese of Portland." A 9-week elementary school guide for teachers in Maine history, with specific emphasis on cultural content, ethnic groups, and the contributions of the…
- Author: Holman, Claire
Date: 1990 April
Publication: Salt
Volume: 10
Language: English
Find in a Library: 3741189
Documentary piece on Lewiston, Maine, illustrated in black and white photo. Fluid city descriptions and drawn-out interviews with Lewiston residents spanning three generations enter readers into the life of the early twentieth-century industrial…
- Author: Bonnie, Fred
Date: 1979
Language: English
Find in a Library: 5765399
A collection of short stories from Maine native and Alabama writer, Fred Bonnie. Back cover reads: "Fred Bonnie traces his family back to Calixte Bonin, a migrant from Quebec who went to Maine a hundred years ago. Ever since then his family has…
- Author: Bonnie, Fred
Date: 1987
Language: English
Find in a Library: 15221260
Collection of Maine fiction by a Portland, Maine native. Features "The State Meet," a story of a struggling student persuaded by his high school teacher and coach, Fr. Polaski, to join the cross country team. The team travels together by bus to…
- Author: Tem, Melanie
Date: 2008
Book Title: Otherworldly Maine
Language: English
Find in a Library: 191898145
Short fiction piece told in the first person. A Maine Woods Guide converses with two hunters on a guided trip as they wait, in the guide's daughter's Aroostook County home, for the October fog to clear. Featured in a collection of Maine writings.
- Author: Kemner, LeÌon
Date: 1909 janvier
Publication: La Revue Franco-AmeÌricaine
Volume: 2
Language: Français
Les données démographiques sur les Franco-AmeÌricains dans l'État du Maine tels que compilés par Odule Laplante sous la direction de la ComiteÌ de la Cause Nationale. Les statistiques démographiques divisées par comté,…
- Author: Stadig, Rita
Date: 1987
Volume: 3
Language: en
Find Online: OL6824949W
Third volume in a series of books dedicated to the history of Maine. Focuses on the northern Maine culture of ski and local developments made for the sport at the beginning of the twentieth century. Profiles prominent Maine skiers of the 1930s and…
- Author: Lothian, Mona
Date: 2009 November 12
Language: English
Find in a Library: Unknown
Oral interview with a woman recalling her youth and family in Lewiston, Maine. Her memories of the pervasiveness of French language and culture in the first half of the twentieth century, and her thoughts on the decline of French language and…
- Author: Corbin, Michael
- Author: Rosenthal, Rob
Date: 2009 March 5
Language: English and français
Find in a Library: Unknown
Oral interview with the owner of CafeÌ de le Place in Madawaska, Maine. The role of food in his family life and historically in the lives of the Acadians of the St. John River Valley. Some descriptions of famous Acadian dishes. Recorded in the…
- Author: Langellier, Kristin
- Author: Peterson, Eric E.
Date: 2004
Language: en
Find in a Library: 52214849
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Performance studies theory text. Maine Franco American case studies in a discussion of the methods and forms of storytelling. Written by two University of Maine professors. From Temple University Press: "The authors ably guide readers through the…
- Author: Weiner, Marli Frances (editor)
Date: 2005
Language: en
Find in a Library: 61184330
Find Online: OL9521726M
From UMaine Press: "This volume of fourteen essays on Maine women's history fills a real need, helping to answer questions about what women were doing in local communities and highlighting their similarities and differences from women elsewhere.…
- Author: Byrne, William
- Author: Leahy, William Augustine
- Author: O'Donnell, Jason H.
- Author: Finen, John E.
- Author: McCoy, J.J.
- Author: Dowling, A.
- Author: Young, Edmund J.A.
- Author: Michaud, John S.
Date: 1899
Language: en
Find in a Library: 1236148
Find Online: OL23413103M
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Lengthy 1899 historical portrait of Roman Catholic dioceses in the New England states. Includes the archdiocese of Boston, the dioceses of Providence (Rhode Island), Portland (Maine), and Manchester (New Hampshire).
- 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: Simoneau, Irene M.
Date: 2008 October
Language: English
Find in a Library: None (full text available here)
Presentation made at St. John's Episcopal Church in Bangor, Maine, by a former Ph. D. candidate in Canadian-American history at the University of Maine, Orono, Maine. The presentation is, as the author calls it, a "spiritual autobiography," exploring…
- Author: Proulx, E. Annie
Date: 1996
Language: English
Find in a Library: 34515071
A startlingly inclusive selection of a century's worth of American immigrant vignettes tied together by the movement of a single accordion. For immigration studies, it is a portrayal attentive in sentiment and beckoning in its concern for the new…