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  • Author: Lothian, Mona

Date: 2009 November 12

Language: English

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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…

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  • Author: Corbin, Michael
  • Author: Rosenthal, Rob

Date: 2009 March 5

Language: English and français

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Oral interview with the owner of Café 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…

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  • Author: Dutram, Paul W.

Date: 2011 April 2

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 60630676, 8814143

Letter to the editor criticizing Maine governor Paul LePage for his order to remove a mural depicting Maine's labor history from the walls of the Maine Department of Labor. A reference to how Maine's and LePage's Franco American history is largely…

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  • Author: Edington, Steve

Date: 1999

Language: English

Find in a Library: 43208165

A genealogical and literary excavation of the roots of Jack Kerouac's family in Nashua, New Hampshire. Historical and literary scholarship on both Nashua and Kerouac, accompanied by the author's thoughts on family and culture, illustrated with some…

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  • Author: Pohl, William
  • Author: Sewall, Abbie (photographs)

Date: 1983

Language: en

Find in a Library: 9574985

A collection of oral history portraits from around the state of Maine. Introduction written by Marshall Dodge, and foreword from Robert Coles. From the text: " 'The Voice of Maine' offers an extraordinary glimpse into the heart and soul of the people…

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  • Author: Olivier, Julien

Date: 1981

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 9185697

Une histoire de la vie artistique et communautaire d'un homme franco-américain de New Hampshire. Racontée par lui-même, M. Marcoux - bûcheron, sculpteur, musicien, ami - comme vu dans les contes qui se présentent dans ses entrevues…

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  • Author: Freeman, Jesse (interviewer)

Date: 2009 January 23

Language: English

Find in a Library: 181139334

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Georgia Public Broadcasting radio interview of Worcester, Massachusetts native John Dufresne on the occasion of his new novel, "Requiem, Mass." Discussion about the novel's characters and setting, Dufresne's ideas about autobiographical writing and…

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  • Author: Chetro-Szivos, John

Date: 2006

Language: en

Find in a Library: 70916480

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A case study in intercultural communication, with linguistic and psychological insight into the dynamics of an American Acadian community in Gardner, Massachusetts. Large emphasis on the communal value of work, or how ideas about work are situated in…

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  • Author: Hendrickson, Dyke

Date: 1980

Language: en

Find in a Library: 6627420

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Historical overview of Franco Americans in New England. 27 interviews that lend personality, locality, and intimacy to the author's history. Hendrickson's work has led to his being quoted as a commentator on immigrant labor history in an exhibit of…

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  • Author: Doty, C. Stewart

Date: 1985

Language: en

Find in a Library: 12219281

Find Online: OL8218380M

Selective reprinting of Franco American oral interviews from the late 1930s' Federal Writers' Project. Brief historical introductions to Manchester NH, Old Town ME, Woonsocket RI, and Barre VT, followed by the interviews with workers that took place…

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  • Author: Doty, C. Stewart

Date: 1991

Language: en

Find in a Library: 22734124

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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…

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  • Author: Delevingne, Lionel (photographs)
  • Author: Briere, Eloise A. (interviews)
  • Author: Vaget, Nicole (text)

Date: 1988

Language: en; fr

Find in a Library: 20218507

Find Online: OL2064431M

Illustrations of Massachusetts' Franco American cultural landscape in personal photos, personal interviews, and historical context. A local pictorial history in short form, singular in its use of quotations.

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  • 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…

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  • Author: Toth, Emily

Date: 1981

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Find in a Library: 7247649

Biography of Manchester, New Hampshire author Grace Metalious. Famous for her novel "Peyton Place" and its various film adaptations. Emily Toth is also the biographer of novelist Kate Chopin.

From University Press of Mississippi: "The juicy…

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  • Author: Bonier, Marie Louise

Date: 1997

Language: en (translation)

Find in a Library: 38077916

Find Online: OL421124M

English translation of 1920's "Débuts de la colonie franco-américaine de Woonsocket, Rhode Island." A rich and in-depth portrayal of the birth of one of Rhode Island's largest Franco-American communities. Divided into three parts: town…

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  • Author: Beaupré, Norman R.

Date: 2006

Language: English

Find in a Library: 85854514

The life of a young man after graduating college, his battle with AIDS, and his friendship with a mentor and former professor, Norman Beaupré, as read through a chronological series of personal letters. From the author's website: "What would you…

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  • Author: Bessette, Richard P.

Date: 2007

Language: en

Find in a Library: 164600253

Find Online: OL6039550W

Pictorial account of a family's immigration that begins in Europe and moves through Canada into the United States, ultimately to Chicago, Illinois's Southside in the 20th and 21st centuries.

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  • Author: Hartig, Rachel Mildred

Date: 2006

Language: English

Find in a Library: 69104286

An exploration of the lives and texts of three francophone biographers, each struggling in her own way through the difficulties of deafness. Includes a segment on Franco American author Corinne Rocheleau-Rouleau. From Gallaudet University Press:…

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  • Author: Kennedy, Kate

Date: 2005

Language: en

Find in a Library: 58051314

Find Online: OL3420598M

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A collection of biographical sketches of Maine women with unique accomplishments, and of those who have made significant contributions to their communities and to the state at large. One of the many books in the "More than Petticoats" series, the…

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  • Author: Hareven, Tamara K.

Date: 1982 (1993)

Language: en

Find in a Library: 7462143

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Study of the complex relationship between family dynamics and demanding mill work. Takes as its focus the industrial city of Manchester, New Hampshire, its vast mill complexes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the worker families that…

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  • Author: Hareven, Tamara K.

Date: 1978 (1995)

Language: en

Find in a Library: 4003899

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History of the former Amoskeag mills and Manchester, New Hampshire, through the eyes and mouths of their laborers and citizens. Contains worker interviews, as well as a detailed study of mill divisions and processes. From the book jacket: "The book…

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  • Author: Cort-Desrochers, John

Date: 2008

Language: English

Find in a Library: 268988215

Memoirs of a Vermont teacher. The story of his French Canadian family living in St. Johnsbury, Vermont in the middle twentieth century. From Ecko House Publishing: "This book tells of a French Canadian family rising out of poverty and achieving the…

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  • Author: Verret, Lauretta Morin

Date: 2002

Language: English

Find in a Library: 76944190

Subtitled, "How One Family of French Canadian Descent, Without Compromising Its Heritage, Learned to Live and Cope in the Border Village of Derby Line, Vermont in the First Half of the Twentieth Century." Biography of the Morin family of Derby Line.…

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  • Author: Fisher, John R.

Date: 1994

Language: English

Find in a Library: 35849944

Brief biography of a French Canadian who fought in the American Civil War as a volunteer from Richmond, Vermont. Concludes with a brief ancestry of his family extending into 17th century France, as well as a list of his descendants now dispersed…

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  • Author: Blaise, Clark

Date: 2008 Spring/Summer

Language: English

Find in a Library: 224383030

An essay in exploration of Jack Kerouac's French-Canadianness in twentieth-century America. How digging into this particular ethnicity, time, and place shapes how one considers Kerouac's late-life ideas about race, his relationship with religion, or…

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  • Author: Black, Barbara

Date: 1984 April 20

Publication: The Gazette

Language: English

Find in a Library: 60623870

Article subtitled, "This first novel describes the attempt of a Franco-American to find out who he is." A review of the 1984 novel "The Questing Beast" and a brief biographical sketch of its author, Richard Hébert.

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  • Author: Perreault, Robert B.

Date: 2010

Language: en

Find in a Library: 664354634

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An intimately crafted Franco American cultural history of Manchester, New Hampshire, written by one of its resident historians. From the author of such works as "One Piece in the Great American Mosaic," "La Presse Franco-Américaine et La…

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  • 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…

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  • Author: Mason, Leonard A.
  • Author: Masson-Douglas, Jeanne (transcriber)

Date: 1980

Language: English

Find in a Library: 16816262

Collection of folklore that, transcribed by a listener, also has the function of oral history. Concerning story, home, and rural life in Vermont.

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  • Author: Aylward, Susan L.

Date: 1998

Thesis Type: Ph. D., English

Institution: University of Rhode Island

Language: en

Find in a Library: 40702182

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From the author: "David Plante, an American writer born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1940, examines the inextricable connection between space and time, place and identity in his most important work, a series of semi-autobiographical novels and…

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