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  Granite : Artists and Their Work

  Catalog accompaniment to the October 1978 Vermont exhibit of artists, stonework, and granite-inspired pieces, "Granite: Artists and Their Work." From the text: "...includes a brief introduction to the history of the granite industry and the multi-cultural heritage of Barre, and information about the artists working in granite as well as those who have used the quarries and the people of the granite industry as subject matter in their paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs" (1).

  Tags Art and Architecture, Austrian Americans, Barre VT, Chelsea VT, Danish Americans, Finnish Americans, Greek Americans, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Jewish Americans, Labor History, Lebanese Americans, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Art and Architecture, Photography, Scottish Americans, Spanish Americans, Swedish Americans, Swiss Americans, Vermont
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  From Colony to Class : The Changing Consciousness of Franco-American Textile Workers in Waterville, Maine, 1934-1954

  Thesis examining the textile workers of Waterville, Maine during the New Deal Era. Descriptions of an observable transition in the Franco American community from an ethnicity-based cohesion to a consciousness and way of life organized by class. An attempt to situate the origins of assimilation and social disintegration of the Franco American communities in the early 20th century. A labor history of the Waterville, Maine area in the early 20th century. The changes in Waterville's workers' attitudes toward organized labor, especially following the 1934 general strike along the American East Coast. The development of class identity as seen in Waterville worker demonstrations in the later 1930s.

  Tags Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Kennebec River Valley, Labor History, Lebanese Americans, Maine, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Religion, Shirley ME, Social History, Waterville ME
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  Exploration of Immigration, Industrialization, and Ethnicity in Waterville, Maine

  From Rowe: "This paper traces how hegemonic forces create boundaries through the specific examples of the Lebanese and Franco-Americans in Waterville, Maine. These two immigrant groups entered into Waterville after an English-Scottish Protestant majority had already been established in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century. The Franco-American immigration from Quebec extended well over a century and the flow of people out of Canada can generally be studied into two distinct waves. People were constantly coming into Waterville from Quebec, and a small number would return to live in Canada after a time. It is also critical to understand that Franco-Americans were settling all over Maine during this same time span and that it is generally accepted that in the state of Maine today at least forty percent of the state has French-Canadian ancestry. In contrast the Lebanese who came to Waterville came during a very specific time period, from about 1890-1920. Their numbers were smaller and there were very few Lebanese who settled elsewhere in Maine."

  Tags Community: Customs and Social Life, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Kennebec River Valley, Labor History, Lebanese Americans, Maine, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Anthropology, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- Immigration, Nonfiction -- Social Sciences, Québec, Social History, Waterville ME