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Sex, Death, and Baseball
Author: Moreau, DavidDate: 2004Publication: Moon Pie PressLanguage : enFind in a library: 61727160Book of poems from Wayne, Maine writer and author of the 2004 chapbook, "Children Are Ugly Little Monsters (But You Have to Love Them Anyway"). -
Maine's Acadia : Young Writers Celebrate a Heritage
Author: Hutchinson, GloriaDate: 1985Publication: MEGA Magnified (Madawaska's Efforts for Gifted Adolescents)Language : EnglishFind in a library: 13210635A collection of student writings in celebration of the 200th year of the Acadian settlement at St. David, Maine, in the northern St. John River Valley. Created during a 1985 Madawaska, Maine summer program for gifted and talented students - MEGA Magnified - under the direction of Gloria Hutchinson.
Includes the following pieces:
Introduction, Gloria Hutchinson
"The Acadians," by Msgr. Gilman Chalout
Sneak Previews
"The Sanctuary," by Robert P. Cyr
"The Time for When to Go," by Carol Dufour Baker
"Oui, Je Me Souviens," by Carol Dufour Baker
"Give Me a Spot in Northern Maine," by Jane Martin
"Growing Up on the Border," by Kim Geraghty
"Two Languages Are Better Than One," by Janet Hebert
"Daigle-Boone: A Game Behaviorist," by Christian Cyr
"Yesterday Came Suddenly," by Mary Marin
"Are Acadians Becoming Americanized?" by Joey Keller
Student Pictures
"The Accursed," by Gina Miranda
"Raindrops from the East," by Lori Ann Albert
"The Vengeance of Three-Fingered Willie," by Shawn Guerrette
"A Pair of Star-Cross'd Lovers," by Tina Chasse
"Crossing the Threshold," by Gary Albert
"In the Name of Honor," by Jenny Albert
"Notes from a Terrorist," by T. Mark Kelly
"Valley Images" (Selected Poems), by T. Chasse, R. P. Cyr, C. Baker, G. M. Miranda, G. Hutchinson
"In Memoriam," by Christian CyrTags Acadians, Acculturation and Assimilation, Allagash ME, Emigration and Immigration, Essay, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fiction and Literature, Folklore, Fort Kent ME, Language and Linguistics, Literary Works -- Anthology, Madawaska ME, Maine, Native Americans, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Poetry, Religion, St. Agatha ME, St. David ME, St. John River Valley, Wallagrass ME -
Biographie d'une ploye
Author: Soucy, CamilleDate: 1988Publication: Editions Lavigne Ltée.Language : frFind in a library: 24218575Un petit historique de la ploye telle que racontée par lui-même. Une description de ses ingrédients, sa recette, comment c'est faite, et son importance pour la culture acadienne. -
Recettes et remèdes de nos grand-mères, vallée du Haut St-Jean
Author: Lévesque, Aurore NadeauDate: 1984Publication: Self-publishedLanguage : frFind in a library: https://francolibrary.com/items/show/788Un livre de recettes et remèdes qui utilisent la végétation naturelle de la
vallée du Haut St-Jean, à la frontière du Maine et la Nouveau Brunswick. De la préface: "En 1978, après avoir appris l'herborisation de plantes comestibles, champignons, etc., pendant quatre ans, je me suis apercue que toutes plantes avaient un procédé medicinal....Qu'on le veuille ou non, le règne végétal renferme des remèdes précieux. La nature est une grande pharmacie. La pharmacie du Bon Dieu, comme je l'appelle. Ce livre est donc un besoin pour tous." -
The Atlantic Provinces of Canada : Union lists of materials in the larger libraries in Maine
Author: Stewart, Alice R.Date: 1971Publication: New England-Atlantic Provinces-Quebec Center, University of MaineLanguage : enFind in a library: 533246Book-length listing of the materials on New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island, that are to be found in a handful of Maine's largest and most thorough libraries. Compiled by historian and Canadian-American scholar at the University of Maine, Alice Stewart. Includes titles and publication dates of periodicals, newspapers, pamphlets, and books. -
Kinship and Migration to the Upper St. John Valley (Maine - New Brunswick)
Author: Craig, BéatriceDate: 1983 SpringLanguage : enFind in a library: 60628349Article exploring the demographic shifts of the Upper St. John River Valley - Maine and New Brunswick - through the first fifty years of the Madwaska settlement, beginning in 1785. The author uses parish records and genealogical sources - what she calls the "cohort-life history method" - to build a portrait of the early in-migration of French Canadian and Acadian Madawaska communities, their habits, and their peopling. Individual, family, and community mobility and some thoughts on the explanations behind it. -
Sex, Death, and Baseball
Author: Moreau, DavidDate: 2004Publication: Moon Pie PressLanguage : enFind in a library: 61727160Book of poems from Wayne, Maine writer and author of the 2004 chapbook, "Children Are Ugly Little Monsters (But You Have to Love Them Anyway"). -
Historiography of the Acadians' Grand Dérangement, 1755
Author: Barnes, Thomas GardenDate: 1988Language : enFind in a library: 60628349Historiographical exploration of the Acadians' expulsion from their homeland region in Atlantic Canada in 1755. The roles and functions of oral and written histories on and of this time period. Description, assessment, reasoning, and judgment of the expulsion by British powers as earliest apparent in the work of 19th-century anglophone historians, and in conversation with contemporary metropolitan French historiography. The appearance of Acadian histories of the event around the beginning of the 20th century. Evolving perceptions of the event's breadth and meaning, and the impact of more recent work by scholars and literary figures of Québec and Acadia. -
The Teacher of French and the Franco-American Newspaper
Author: Matthews, F. LouiseDate: 1955-04-00Language : enFind in a library: 137573897Article describing French, French-Canadian, and Franco-American newspapers published in the US and Canada as useful classroom tools for language learning and cultural competency. Discussions of various relevant French-language periodicals, their contents, origins, and distribution. Suggestions for their use with students.Tags Alberta, Berlin NH, California, Canada, Fall River MA, Lewiston ME, Los Angeles CA, Louisiana, Maine, Manitoba, Massachusetts, New Bedford MA, New Brunswick, New England, New Hampshire, New York, Newark NJ, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Education, Nonfiction -- Journalism, Nonfiction -- Language and Linguistics, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Pittsburgh PA, Québec, Rhode Isand, San Francisco CA, Saskatchewan, Worcester MA