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Margaret Chase Smith : The Persistence of a Political Archetype

Author: Potholm, Christian P.

Date: 2009

Publication: The New England Journal of Political Science

Volume: 4

Language: en

Find in a Library: 54021556

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Article describing the political method and image of former Maine Republican congresswoman, Margaret Chase Smith. The paradigmatic elements of her political tenure and their subsequent impact on the shapes of later Maine political campaigns and…

When We Were the Kennedys : A Memoir from Mexico, Maine

Author: Wood, Monica

Date: 2012

Language: en

Find in a Library: 719673406

Find Online: OL16686833W

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Memoir from Mexico, Maine native and author of fiction, Monica Wood. Recalls the period of the author's youth around the time of the sudden death of her father. Her family's experience of the loss of its breadwinner in the 1960s. The shape of her…

Tags: Community: Customs and Social Life, Death and Disaster, Family, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Lithuanian Americans, Mexico ME, Mills and Mill Work, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Religion, Rumford ME, Washington DC, Youth

The Lively Legacy of Blackie Langlais

Author: Down East

Date: 1978 June

Publication: Down East

Volume: 24

Language: English

Find in a Library: 60623370

Brief profile of Old Town, Maine native and recently deceased sculptor of Cushing, Maine, Bernard "Blackie" Langlais. Several photographs of his work, including one of the artist outside his home.

Tags: Art and Architecture, Cushing ME, New York NY, Old Town ME, Paris FR, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Skowhegan ME, Thomaston ME, Washington DC

Snow Man

Author: Busch, Niven

Date: 1970

Book Title: Twenty-One Americans : Being Profiles of Some People Famous in Our Time

Language: English

Find in a Library: 74922

A profile of Boston and New York social activist, Urbain Ledoux. Ledoux, known as "Mr. Zero," was an early advocate for the homeless and jobless of the United States. His parents emigrated from Quebec to work in Connecticut and Maine in the 19th…

Tags: Boston MA, Business and Economics, Government and Politics, New York NY, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Social History, United States, Washington DC

Orateurs canadiens-franÃ§ais aux Ã‰tats-Unis : conferences et discours

Author: Bellerive, Georges

Date: 1908

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 558085055

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Un collection (1908) de discours de locales variés des Etats-Unis, offrés par des francos prominents ou des canadiens français de la gouvernment canadienne.

Tags: Baltimore MD, Boston MA, Buffalo NY, Canada, Chicago IL, Erie NY, Government and Politics, New York NY, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Anthology, Providence RI, Richford VT, Salem MA, Washington DC, Waterville ME, Woonsocket RI

The Boston French: a collection of facts and incidents with appropriate illustrations relating to some well-known citizens of France who found homes in Boston and New England, with which are included accounts of several visits made by one of the authors to LaRochelle and to the homes of the ancestors of Paul Revere

Author: Forbes, Allan

Date: 1971

Language: English

Find Online: 540838

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Tags: Boston MA, Cambridge MA, Canton MA, Charleston SC, Dorchester MA, Emigration and Immigration, France, Government and Politics, Milton MA, New Rochelle NY, Oxford MA, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Providence RI, Religion, Washington DC, Wickford RI

Canadians in the United States

Author: Wickett, S. Morley

Date: 1913-01

Publication: The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volume: 45

Language: en

Find in a Library: 486783228

Brief 1913 review of what the author calls "the great Canadian exodus" - the period from 1850 to 1900 when nearly 1.8 million English and French Canadians emigrated to the United States.