Browse Items (5 total)

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  Vagabond Dreams Come True

  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 career. His travels and successes, and some of his thoughts on fame.

  Tags Family, Island Pond VT, Los Angeles CA, Maine, Music, New Haven CT, New York NY, Orono ME, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Rumford Falls ME, Westbrook ME, Youth
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  My Time Is Your Time : The Story of Rudy Vallee

  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 participated in while in the public eye.

  Tags Los Angeles CA, Maine, Music, New York NY, Old Orchard Beach ME, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Rumford Falls ME, Westbrook ME
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  The Teacher of French and the Franco-American Newspaper

  Article 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 Island, San Francisco CA, Saskatchewan, Worcester MA
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  Mestisaje

  A collection of writings in a cultural studies reader, introduced with an essay from the instructor. Compiled for a University of Maine course in English composition. Available at the Franco-American Centre, Orono, Maine.

  Tags Essay, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fiction and Literature, France, Gender and Sexuality, Hispanic Americans, Language and Linguistics, Lewiston ME, Los Angeles CA, Maine, Mexican Americans, Native Americans, Peru, Poetry, Religion, Rumford ME, Texas, United States
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  The Teacher of French and the Franco-American Newspaper

  Article 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