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- Author: Lemay, Harding
Date: 1971
Language: en
Find in a Library: 136962
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Memoir of famed television soap opera writer and playwright, Harding Lemay. From his tumultuous early youth - one of thirteen children - on a New York farm along the Canadian border, to his lonely escape to New York City at the age of 17 and the…
- Author: Proulx, Annie
Date: 2011
Language: en
Find in a Library: 555641609
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Narrative of the discovery and inhabiting of the author's homestead along Wyoming's North Platte River. Memoirs from the author's youth and family life, relatives, their cultures and their mobility. Her youth across New England. Historical,…
- Author: Johnson, Joyce
Date: 2012
Language: en
Find in a Library: 774147822
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Biographical portrait of Jack Kerouac, with uniquely heavy emphasis on the suggested influence of his French Canadian heritage - and the French language - on the style and content of his creative works. Written by a Kerouac contemporary and former…
- Author: Grenier, Ross L.
Date: 2010
Language: en
Memoir compiled from early twentieth-century stories of the author's youth, growing up in a large Canadian immigrant family in the townships of Brassua and Holeb, Somerset County, Maine. Rural family life in northwestern Maine - sporting, housing,…
- Author: Monette, Paul
Date: 1992
Language: en
Find in a Library: 24872593
Autobiography and coming-out narrative of Paul Monette, an Andover, Massachusetts writer. Monette recounts twenty-five closeted years of alienation and invisibility, explorations of his sexual identity, and observations on the sexual prejudice and…
- Author: Lambert, Adélard
Date: 1927-00-00
Language: fr
Find in a Library: 6156497
Témoignage autobiographique d'un homme à Manchester, New Hampshire et sa relation avec les livres. Son accumulation à vie de milles de livres de "Canadiana" et "Franco-Americana," et les histoires qui l'accompagnent, vers leur lieu de repos…
- Author: Nicosia, Gerald
Date: 1983-00-00
Language: en
Find in a Library: 9392871
Biography of Lowell, Massachusetts native, poet, and author, Jack Kerouac, widely known as a founding participant in the 20th century USA literary culture that came to be called the "Beat Movement," or the "Beat Generation." Kerouac's life from birth…
- 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…
- Author: Gauvreau, Emile
Date: 1941
Language: English
Find in a Library: 334962
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Autobiography of famed newspaperman, Emile Gavreau. His youth in the first decade of the twentieth century in New Haven, Connecticut, and among family in Montréal. A family's pervasive Catholicism; an early attachment to reading; intimate…
- Author: Poulin, A., Jr.
Date: 1987
Language: Section: English
Find in a Library: 18323269
Short autobiographical essay on the elements of cultural heritage evident in the author's family history and youth; the persistence of a French Canadian "communal sensuous self," the impact of one's environments, and recognizing one's heritage…
- Author: Lambert, George J.
Date: 2008
Language: English
Find in a Library: Unknown
Military stories and individual histories of the military duties of six Augusta, Maine brothers - Armand, Laurent, Paul, Jean, William, and Louis Lambert. Written by the family's youngest son, George. Narrative covers enlistment periods and active…
- Author: Vallée, Rudy
Date: 1930
Language: en
Find in a Library: 910206
Find Online: OL7089588W
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Original autobiography of twentieth-century singer and musician, Rudy Vallée, who was born in Island Pond, Vermont and spent his youth in Westbrook, Maine. His early life, time at the University of Maine and Yale University, and his early music…
- Author: Vallée, Rudy
- Author: McKean, Gil
Date: 1962
Language: English
Find in a Library: 488031
Memoirs of twentieth-century singer and musician, Rudy Vallée. Co-authored. Stories from his early life in Westbrook, Maine, and his college years in New Haven, Connecticut. Events along his rise to stardom, and the varieties of entertainment he…
- Author: Tirone Smith, Mary-Ann
Date: 2006
Language: English
Find in a Library: 61151630
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Memoir of a woman growing up in the immigrant city of Hartford, Connecticut in the 1950s. Her French Canadian and Italian relatives, her childhood, early adulthood, and the processes of recollecting them. Divided into five parts: Mortality; Brain…
- Author: Rossignol, Matthew Albert
Date: 1996
Language: English
Find in a Library: 40651518
Memories of a childhood summer in the author's hometown of Van Buren, Maine, with one week spent on a vacation in Portland. Focuses on friendship, family, and baseball.
- Author: Maher, Paul, Jr.
Date: 2004
Language: English
Find in a Library: 52347737
Recent historical biography of Lowell, Massachusetts writer, Jack Kerouac. Based largely on primary sources. Written by an independent scholar whose childhood and later life was also spent in Lowell.
- Author: Cyr, Sr. Marguerite
Date: Unknown
Language: English
Find in a Library: 19889308
Illustrated brief memoir of northern Maine women religious moving about France during World War II. The events leading up to, and the sequence of, a five-day journey from their Paris convent to a safe haven in St. Etienne. Written soon after the…
- Author: BeÌrubeÌ, Georgette
Date: 2004
Language: English
Find in a Library: 61458038
Memoirs and selected speeches of a Maine state legislator from the city of Lewiston. Contains commentary on some of the campaigns, issues, actors, and events significant to BeÌrubeÌ and her career in Maine politics between 1970 and 2000. Some…
- Author: Lalande, Louis, S.J.
Date: 1907
Language: Français
Find in a Library: 427229617
Collection de lettres envoyées par P. Louis Lalande, S.J., à son ami Arthur Prévost, du Québec, du Canada, des fois aux États-Unis, et d'ailleurs. Rend une chronique de la vie du prêtre et de sa relation avec son ami. Publiée…
- 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: Kennedy, Ambrose
Date: 1948
Language: English
Find in a Library: 414871
Biography of a priest who emigrated to New England from Quebec and became an instrumental figure in the Providence, Rhode Island, Roman Catholic diocese. His early life in Canada, his movement to the United States on account of illness, and his…
- Author: Currier, Anne B.
Date: Unknown (ca. 1960)
Language: English
Find in a Library: 11455298
Remembrances of a French Canadian family in New Hampshire, or the biography of a Canadian immigrant mother as written by her American daughter. Family life, work, and prayer in rural New England. Presented as if in flashback, with the story beginning…
- Author: Pelletier, Louis
Date: 2010
Language: English
Find in a Library: 694172904
Stories from the Allagash, Maine, of old. Told in 26 parts - one part for a salient word corresponding to each letter of the alphabet. Written from the recollections of a longtime Allagash resident. Interlocked portraits of his family and life there,…
- Author: Savard Bonin, Jeanne
Date: 1988
Language: English (traduction du français)
Find in a Library: 166317572
An impassioned tribute to Marie-Rose Ferron, or "Little Rose," of Woonsocket, Rhode Island. Little Rose is revered in local Catholic mysticism for her experience of the stigmata - the miraculous appearance of the wounds of Christ on her body - and…
- Author: Chartier, Armand
- Author: Chartier, Catherine Rivard
Date: 1985
Language: English
Find in a Library: 16000329
The life of Father Armand Morissette - better known as Father Spike - Catholic priest of Lowell, Massachusetts. Father Spike was widely known for his compassion and ease of friendship, as well as for his community activism and ahead-of-the-curve…
- 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…