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The Back Roads
Author: Martin, JaneDate: 2013-fallLanguage : enFind in a library: 60637997Short story narrating Maxime's detours: from a rare West Coast business trip out of Maine to visit his sister and her partner in San Francisco; from routes of his present to certain back roads of memory. -
Normand Beaupré, militant de la résistance canadienne-française aux États-Unis
Author: Simard, JeanDate: 2010Language : frSource : Texte intégralFind in a library: 53905023Un portrait autobiographique raconté par l'auteur franco-américain, Normand Beaupré, de Biddeford, Maine, sur sa profession, sa vie academique, et sa vocation comme écrivain de la langue française dans la Nouvelle-Angleterre. -
Vandal Love
Author: Béchard, Deni Y.Date: 2012 (2006, Canada edition)Publication: Milkweed EditionsLanguage : enSource : PreviewFind in a library: 758646813Novel tracing a century of Québec's Hervé family in the United States and Canada, and the genetic conditions that have turned its offspring "alternately [into] brutes or runts" (4). Jude the emigrant boxer in 1960s Georgia and Louisiana, and Isa, his abandoned daughter, into Virginia and Maine. Georgianne and the runt orphaned grandchild, François, from Québec across the Canadian provinces in the middle 20th century; Harvey, his son, and the parental separation that removes one from the other. Harvey's personal spiritual quest across the American Southwest. The tragedy and genealogical loops that unify the characters and their movements through time across North America. -
Postnational United States Regional Hinterlands : Proulx's Ethnic Working-Class Communities in Accordion Crimes
Author: Werden, DouglasDate: 2009Publication: Lexington BooksLanguage : enSource : PreviewEssay analyzing Annie Proulx's novel, "Accordion Crimes," according to the ethnic groups, working-classes, and cultural identities its characters simultaneously challenge and represent. A mid-1990s United States commentary on assimilation, acculturation, race, and place-identity in which this article's author situates the novel. The symbol of the accordion across cultural and geographic lines, within and across certain immigrant communities in the United States, in environments that temper American myths of upward mobility, and within musical communities of diverse qualities.Tags African Americans, Basque, Cajuns, Chicago IL, Creoles, German Americans, Immigration, Iowa, Italian Americans, Literary Works, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Louisiana, Maine, Mexican Americans, Minnesota, Montana, Music, Polish Americans, Québec, Sicilian Americans, Viennese Americans, Violence -
The Art of Fiction, No. 199
Author: Proulx, AnnieDate: 2009 SpringLanguage : enFind in a library: 1641889Interview with novelist and short story writer, Annie Proulx, about her life, her craft, and her thoughts on writing. Reflections on some of her past works, including the novels "Postcards" and "The Shipping News," as well as the story, "Brokeback Mountain." Her engagement with a wide range of settings and characters, with an emphasis on rural America. Interview conducted at her ranch home in Wyoming. -
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"). -
Finding Your Inner Moose : Ida Leclair's Guide to Livin' the Good Life
Author: Poulin, SusanDate: 2012Publication: Islandport PressLanguage : enFind in a library: 778426192Maine humor self-help guide in the voice of Ida LeClair, the character creation of Maine writer and performer, Susan Poulin. "Commonsensical" wisdoms from the western Maine town of Mahoosuc Mills, drawn from Ida's life experiences; her husband, Charlie; her friends and family, young and old; and the iconic Maine moose. -
Siting memory in Normand Beaupré's Le petit mangeur de fleurs
Author: Lees, CynthiaDate: 2012-03-00Language : enFind in a library: 60628349Article on the role of memory in Biddeford, Maine author Normand Beaupré's recent autobiographical novel. How memories and the act of remembering of one's youth and childhood home help to build collective cultural identity among Franco American communities, and become building block's for the author's personal, literary identity. Critical reading of the author's use of the French language, and of the personal and cultural traits upon which his story focuses. -
Arrhythmia
Author: Martin, Jane E.Date: 2011 FallLanguage : enFind in a library: 9801056Short fiction piece about a woman's relationship with her mother illuminated in the ticks and increasing demands of her mother's heart condition. A parallel story of the woman's failed relationship with her partner, Mauricia. -
Your People's Ways
Author: Martin, Jane E.Date: 2010 SpringLanguage : enFind in a library: 1640212Short fiction piece told from the perspective of Rosaire, a young woman who suffers from a painful and mysterious physical injury. Movements in the relationship between Rosaire and her partner Gabriela, a graduate student, who decides to travel from their Michigan home to California, where a past boss and former lover suffers from cancer. -
Buffleheads
Author: Martin, Jane E.Date: 2012 SpringLanguage : enSource : Full text @ Michigan Quarterly ReviewFind in a library: 1757375Short fiction piece that finds Liliane coming upon the news of a suicide within the family of a former relative, gripped still by the emotions and tensions surrounding the suicide of her own sister - her tie to this other family - decades earlier. -
Jumelage
Author: Martin, Jane E.Date: 2012 SpringLanguage : enFind in a library: 1766210Short fiction piece that follows Maggie - a Maine woman in Montréal - through a sudden relationship with her "jumelle interlinguistique," Noémi, and with the province and people of which she discovers she may not be a part. -
Franco-American Literature Today
Author: Chartier, ArmandDate: 1981 summerLanguage : enFind in a library: 50709793Brief review of some resources in Franco-American literature available at the beginning of the 1980s. Specifically mentions collections, works, and writers in Maine, Massachusetts, and Louisiana. -
The Gray Mills of Farley
Author: Jewett, Sarah OrneDate: 1898-06-00Language : enFind in a library: 1565217Short story that finds a textile mill agent caught between the greed of his directors, the powerlessness and plight of his workers, and the wisdom of a priest around the time of a New England mill's cut-back and shut-down. A New England manufactory-town setting and its diverse characters around the turn of the century. Written by a South Berwick, Maine native and author of The Country of the Pointed Firs. Featured in the following collections:
American Local-Color Stories, edited by Harry R. Warfel. 1941. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1188060
Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, edited by Richard Cary. 1971. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/227485
The Irish Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, edited by Jack Morgan and Louis A. Renza. 1996. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34475664 -
Jewett and the Incorporation of New England : "The Gray Mills of Farley"
Author: Sherman, Sarah WayDate: 2002 springLanguage : enFind in a library: 42711105Critical and historical reading of Sarah Orne Jewett's 1898 short story, "The Gray Mills of Farley," about textile mill workers, an agent, and mill directors around the time of a New England mill's cut-back and shut-down. Place and character descriptions in this story, according to the author, give us entry into the social make-up, living conditions, and manufactory settings found at the Salmon Falls Mills at the turn of the century in Rollinsford, New Hampshire - near to Jewett's own hometown in South Berwick, Maine. Author's comparisons between Salmon Falls Mills and the Amoskeag Mills of Manchester, New Hampshire. Reference to Tamara Hareven and Ralph Langenbach's book, "Amoskeag."Tags Brunswick ME, Business and Economics, Criticism and Review, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Fiction and Literature, Irish Americans, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Maine, Mills and Mill Work, New Hampshire, Religion, Rollinsford NH, South Berwick ME -
Madame Athanase T. Brindamour , raconteuse
Author: Beaupré, NormandDate: 2012-00-00Publication: Llumina PressLanguage : FrançaisFind in a library: https://francolibrary.com/items/show/2025Roman composé d'histoires de vie et de la famille à Manchester New Hampshire, tel que racontées par le personnage-titre et son épouse : Marie Solfège Desruisseaux Brindamour et Athanase T. Brindamour. Les voix, personnalités, et communautés de deux raconteurs - femme et homme - franco-americains. Créé par auteur et créateur de "la Souillonne." Comme écrit l'auteur, chacun de ces trois caractères parlent "en dialecte franco-américain." -
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 -
Tall Timber Poems
Author: Dumas, Jacqueline M.Date: 1971Publication: Pine Hill PressLanguage : enFind in a library: 24596647Book of poems on the Maine outdoors from a Rumford, Maine native and once-resident of Coburn Gore. From the author: "a collection of nature poems, humorous ballads, photos and sketches" -
North Country Ballads
Author: Dumas, Jacqueline M.Date: 1975Publication: Smith and TownLanguage : enFind in a library: 1622070Book of poems on the woods and woodland creatures of Maine and New Hampshire, from a Rumford, Maine native and once-resident of Coburn Gore. -
Letourneau's Used Auto Parts
Author: Chute, CarolynDate: 1988Publication: Ticknor & FieldsLanguage : enFind in a library: 17441000The second in a collection of novels by this North Parsonsfield, Maine author. Set in the fictional, rural Maine town of Egypt. A series of vignettes centered around Big Lucien Letourneau, his family, and the other hardscrabble characters in their rural community. Letourneau's auto parts business and all the quirks, love, and violence between the people in his salvage yard/shantytown known as "Miracle City." -
Maine River Drivers
Author: Searway, Ruby GarrisonDate: 1973Publication: Pejepscot PressLanguage : enFind in a library: 4598065Short poem about the sort of men who worked to drive logs down the rivers of Maine to its many lumber mills, and the natural dangers these men encountered. Written by a Maine writer and published in the 15th collection from the Maine Writers' Conference at Ocean Park, Old Orchard Beach, Maine. -
Cecile's Dog Bo
Author: Fuller, Jacquie GiassonDate: 1994Publication: University Press of New EnglandLanguage : enFind in a library: 45731570Short story about Maureen, a young woman with distant Maine roots, returning to her "homeland" in a town like Lewiston. Her roommate, Cecile, and the dog named "Bo" that was left in their care with the departure of Cecile's husband. First published in Yankee Magazine, 1993. Reprinted in a collection of Maine writings edited by Wesley McNair. -
Accenting the French in Comparative American Studies
Author: Green, Mary JeanDate: 2009Language : enFind in a library: 1564555Critical essay on the inclusion of Francophone peoples and regions in the broadening scope of American Studies. Brief survey on certain literary works and literary criticism that illustrate how cultural identity gets articulated in terms of the wide geography, multiple languages, and human migrations of the Americas. The ways in which regional writers "remap" their region's identity and build specific international relationships, with examples from Haiti, Québec, and other Francophone areas in the western hemisphere. Particular emphasis on the peoples and literatures of Latin America and the Caribbean, Québec and French Canada, with some comments on Cajuns and Creoles in Louisiana and Franco Americans New England. -
La Bêche (The Spade), ou, les Assimilateurs en action : Album de dessins gais
Author: Charlebois, JosephDate: 1911Publication: J.A. LefebvreLanguage : frSource :Lire: Texte intégral
Find in a library: 53660030Sous-titrée, "Dédié aux Franco-Américains de la Nouvelle Angleterre."
Une collection de dessins politiques qui soulèvent des questions sur le traitement des Franco-Américaines par leur clergé catholique dans la Nouvelle-Angleterre, ou plus précisément, dans le Maine. Commentaire artistique québécois sur la relation entre l'Église catholique - principalement, les évêques catholiques - et l'assimilation franco-américaine aux États-Unis au début du 20e siècle. Représentations sévères fictifs de la hiérarchie catholique et les Irlando-Américains de la Nouvelle-Angleterre.
De l'éditeur: "Cet album ne surprendra pas ceux qui, depuis vingt ou vingt-cinq ans, s'intéressent au sort de nos compatriotes établis aux Etats-Unis, ou - pour parler avec plus d'exactitude - de nos compatriotes établis en dehors de la province de Québec....Les dessins qui y sont groupés ne font pas autre chose que fixer quelques traits principaux de la vie catholique aux Etats-Unis." -
Reunion Families' Favorite Recipes
Author: Chassé, Géraldine PelletierDate: 1992Publication: Madawaska Historical SocietyLanguage : enFind in a library: 27163203Collection of recipes shared by families who celebrated reunions in Madawaska, Maine between 1980 and 1992. The reunion banquet being a keystone event, the Madawaska Historical Society collected a book's worth of family foods from the following clans whose gatherings took place in the following order:
1980 - Daigle
1981 - Cyr
1982 - Hébert
1983 - Dufour
1984 - Thibodeau
1985 - Ayotte, Duperré, Fournier, Mercure, Potier, Sanfaçon
1986 - Pelletier
1987 - Plourde
1988 - Ouellette
1989 - Paradis
1990 - Bouchard
1991 - Sirois
1992 - Côté
The recipe book is divided into chapter by year and family. Each section is introduced with a family crest, a brief genealogical description of a family name, and a list of the recipes that follow alphabetized by the first name of their presenter. Original Acadian recipes are denoted by asterisk. Contains an index of all included recipes. -
Reunion Families' Cookbook
Author: DeFarges, Rachelle ChasséDate: 2000Publication: The Acadian Cultural Exchange of Northern MaineLanguage : enFind in a library: Unknown/InconnuCollection of recipes shared by families who celebrated reunions in Madawaska, Maine between 1993 and 2000. The reunion banquet being a keystone event, a book's worth of family foods were compiled from the following clans whose gatherings took place in the following order:
1993 - Theriault
1994 - Roy
1995 - Chassé
1996 - Levesque
1997 - Dubé
1998 - Nadeau
1999 - Dumont
2000 - Miville-Deschênes
The recipe book is divided into chapter by year and family. Each section is introduced with a family crest and a brief genealogical description of a family name, followed by recipes alphabetized by the first name of their presenter. Original Acadian recipes are denoted by asterisk. Contains an index of all included recipes. -
A Jewel in the Crown of Maine : The Farrell-Michaud House, Meals and Memories
Author: Bouchard, SusanDate: 1998Publication: Keepsake Enterprises, Ltd.Language : enFind in a library: Unknown/InconnuBook of recipes for meals and dishes served at the Farrell-Michaud House bed-and-breakfast in Van Buren, Maine. Begins with stories and historical descriptions of the Farrell and Michaud families, as well as of the house itself and the cultures of the northern Maine region in which it sits. -
Treasured Family Recipes : Past and Present
Author: Charette, TheresaDate: 2005Publication: Morris Press CookbooksLanguage : enFind in a library: None (can be viewed at the Franco-American Centre, Orono, Maine)A cookbook both traditional and modern. A collection of recipes from three generations of French Canadian and Acadian cooks. Includes an introduction by the author. Written in Madawaska, Maine, and shared with the Upper St. John Valley. Printed by the fundraising publisher Morris Press, with a portion of cookbook sales dedicated to the Edgar J. (Guy) Paradis Cancer Fund. -
Franco-American Bibliography for Health Care Providers
Author: Robbins, Rhea CôtéDate: UnknownPublication: Self-publishedLanguage : enFind in a library: Unknown/InconnuBibliographic list of over 350 texts helpful to providers in a variety of healthcare fields for learning about Franco Americans. Historical, cultural, literary, legal, biological, and other resources listed together in an attempt to serve holistically the information needs of educators, medical professionals, and caretakers aimed at serving the Franco American populations of New England. -
Lumbering and the Maine Woods : A Bibliographical Guide
Author: Smith, David C.Date: 1971Publication: Maine Historical SocietyLanguage : enFind in a library: 658331Bibliography of texts related to lumbering, woodcutters, and their environments in Maine from the middle 19th century to the 20th. Contains lists of manuscript collections, articles, comprehensive historical texts, town histories, unpublished theses, and some fiction. Many citations are annotated. -
An Annotated Bibliography of Title VII French Project-Developed Instructional Materials, 1970-1975
Author: National Materials Development CenterDate: 1975Publication: National Materials Development CenterLanguage : enFind in a library: 93006875List of educational materials designed for French and French/English American elementary education in the 1970s. Shares the titles, descriptions of content, and appropriate grade levels for language texts designed for teachers and students in Florida, Louisiana, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont.Tags Berlin NH, Breaux Bridge LA, Caribou ME, Education, Florida, Frenchville ME, Greenville NH, Lafayette LA, Lafayette Parish LA, Language and Linguistics, Madawaska ME, Maine, New Hampshire, St. Agatha ME, St. John River Valley, St. Landry Parish LA, St. Martin Parish LA, Van Buren ME, Vermont, Youth -
Essai bibliographique : sur l’apport franco-américain à la littérature des États-Unis
Author: Robert, AdolpheDate: 1949Publication: Institut d'histoire de l'Amérique française; ÉruditLanguage : frFind in a library: 1764125Un revue de la Nouvelle Angleterre sur une collection des littératures franco-américaines jusqu'au présent (1949). Contiens une bibliographie d'oeuvres publiés.Tags Bibliography, Connecticut, Criticism and Review, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Fiction and Literature, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Maine, Manchester NH, Massachusetts, New England, New Hampshire, Québec, Rhode Island, Sports and Leisure, Vermont, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
The Franco-Americans of New England: A Union List of Materials in Selected Maine Libraries (Un catalogue de matériaux disponibles dans certaines bibliothèques de l'État du Maine)
Author: Simano, Irene M.Date: 1971Publication: New England-Atlantic Provinces-Québec Center, University of MaineSource : Read: FULL TEXTFind in a library: 425585108From the text: "Works written by Franco-Americans and those written about them were inventoried. This latter category includes some writings dealing with other subjects with contain substantial sections of the Franco-Americans of New England." From WorldCat: "Approximately 140 bibliographic citations of periodicals, serials, and newspapers; books, pamphlets and theses; and selected articles dating from the 1890's to the present time and held in Maine libraries are included in this inventory of materials by or about Franco-American people." -
Francoamerican Cultural Identity: A Resource Guide
Author: Hickey, JohnDate: 1976Publication: Self-publishedLanguage : enFind in a library: 3269655Compilation of information on resources, repositories, references, and research tools available for the study of Franco American history and cultural identity in New England. Lists specific archival collections and their locations; library collections of current materials; French-English bilingual education programs and resources across the United States. -
Siting memory in Normand Beaupré's Le petit mangeur de fleurs
Author: Lees, CynthiaDate: 2012-03-00Language : enFind in a library: 60628349Article on the role of memory in Biddeford, Maine author Normand Beaupré's recent autobiographical novel. How memories and the act of remembering of one's youth and childhood home help to build collective cultural identity among Franco American communities, and become building block's for the author's personal, literary identity. Critical reading of the author's use of the French language, and of the personal and cultural traits upon which his story focuses. -
A New Order of Things : How the Textile Industry Transformed New England
Author: Rivard, Paul E.Date: 2002Publication: University Press of New EnglandLanguage : enSource : PreviewFind in a library: 48958482General history of the textile industry and its workers in the towns and cities of New England. From early domestic and small-scale manufacturing in the 17th and 18th centuries, to weaving industries of the early 19th, to the massive riverside brick mill structures and labor forces that persisted into the later 20th century. Contains scholarship, oral histories, and many illustrations in painting and photograph of industrial-era settings, workers, and their manufacturing equipment. Written by former director of the American Textile History Museum and the Maine State Museum.Tags Alna ME, Andover MA, Androscoggin River Valley, Augusta ME, Berlin NH, Billerica MA, Blackstone River Valley, Braintree MA, Brunswick ME, Business and Economics, Chelmsford MA, Clinton MA, Dedham MA, Dover NH, Dracut MA, Dudley MA, Emigration and Immigration, England, Fall River MA, Gardiner ME, Gonic NH, Hallowell ME, Harrisville NH, Holden MA, Holyoke MA, Irish Americans, Kingston NH, Labor History, Laconia NH, Lawrence MA, Lewiston ME, Lincoln RI, Londonderry NH, Lovell ME, Lowell MA, Ludlow MA, Maine, Manchester NH, Manville RI, Massachusetts, Merrimack River Valley, Middlefield NY, Mills and Mill Work, Nashua NH, New Bedford MA, New England, Newburyport MA, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Pawtucket RI, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Portsmouth NH, Providence RI, Quequechan River Valley, Rhode Island, Rockville CT, Rowley MA, Saco ME, Salem MA, Salem NH, Sanford ME, Slatersville RI, Somersworth NH, South Waterford ME, Springvale ME, St. John River Valley, Taunton MA, Ware MA, Warren RI, Webster MA, Winthrop ME, Worcester MA, Yarmouth ME, York ME -
Have You Seen Ayla Reynolds?
Author: Currie, Ron, Jr.Date: 2012-10-00Language : enFind in a library: 51678567Magazine article on the 2012 disappearance of Waterville, Maine toddler, Ayla Reynolds, as local and national news phenomenon. The missing child and her family at the center of 21st century "info-tainment," situated in the author's own hometown. Currie's reflections on growing up in Waterville, and his thoughts on the effects of the area's patterned economic depression as illustrated in the turns and characters of the Ayla Reynolds story. -
Finding Your Inner Moose : Ida Leclair's Guide to Livin' the Good Life
Author: Poulin, SusanDate: 2012Publication: Islandport PressLanguage : enFind in a library: 778426192Maine humor self-help guide in the voice of Ida LeClair, the character creation of Maine writer and performer, Susan Poulin. "Commonsensical" wisdoms from the western Maine town of Mahoosuc Mills, drawn from Ida's life experiences; her husband, Charlie; her friends and family, young and old; and the iconic Maine moose. -
Augusta
Author: Sleeper, Frank H.Date: 1995Publication: Arcadia PublishingLanguage : enSource : PreviewFind in a library: 34053616An "Images of America" series, pictorial history of the city of Augusta - Maine's capital - with images and captions from the late nineteenth through the first half of the twentieth century. Augusta's place in Maine state politics; its early families, businesses, and city structures; leisure-time activities. One chapter devoted to Augusta's Franco American community, its people and its insitutions.Tags Augusta ME, Business and Economics, Clubs and Societies, Cobbosseecontee Lake ME, Community: Customs and Social Life, Family, Government and Politics, Kennebec River Valley, Lisbon Falls ME, Maine, Mills and Mill Work, Moosehead Lake Region, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Local, Nonfiction -- History -- Pictorial, Photography, Religion, Sand Hill ME, Sports and Leisure -
Margaret Chase Smith : The Persistence of a Political Archetype
Author: Potholm, Christian P.Date: 2009Publication: The New England Journal of Political ScienceLanguage : enSource : Full textFind in a library: 54021556Article 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 leadership styles. Particular emphasis on the successes of Maine moderates William Cohen, Olympia Snowe, and Susan Collins. The major elements of a "Margaret Chase Smith archetype" : independent leadership style and stance, support for national defense, and an identification with hard work and the working class. The ways in which Smith's successful followers in government imitated these elements, or how notable political defeats relate to a candidate's departures from her moderate archetype. Discussion of Smith's little acknowledged French Canadian roots.Tags Androscoggin County ME, Aroostook County ME, Auburn ME, Augusta ME, Brunswick ME, Cape Elizabeth ME, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Gender and Sexuality, Government and Politics, Hancock County ME, Kittery ME, Lewiston ME, Lincoln County ME, Lisbon Falls ME, Lisbon ME, Maine, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Penobscot County ME, Saco ME, Sanford ME, Skowhegan ME, Waldo County ME, War, Washington DC, Waterville ME, Westbrook ME -
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. -
Henriette, la capuche : The Portrait of a Frontier Midwife
Author: Paradis, RogerDate: 1983 SpringLanguage : enFind in a library: 60628349Article on Henriette Blier Pelletier and her lifelong commitment to midwifery. A Québec-born transplant to the Madawaska Territory and the St. Luce Parish - later to be called Frenchville, Maine. Pelletier helped to deliver the children of rural women in their homes, with methods and skills learned through apprenticeship, around the turn of the century. Explanations of medical procedures, folk medicines, and other folk practices used by Pelletier and others in the region, as gleaned from oral history interviews with women in the St. John Valley. -
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"). -
A Study of Textile Mill Closings in Selected New England Communities
Author: Devino, W. StanleyDate: 1966Publication: University of Maine PressLanguage : enFind in a library: 238142A study of the 1950s closings of selected textile mills from all six New England states, explorations of their local and regional economic impacts, and analyses of community adjustments to economic change. Local recovery measures taken to compensate for losses in labor, industry, and government income. Studies take into account the varying economic settings of the New England communities at hand, including their potential for economic development, their capacity to provide work opportunities to former millworkers, and their ability to withstand out-migration. Data is compiled from interviews with community members and state and local government statistics. Based on the following textile centers in their respective industrial cities: Saco-Lowell Shops, Bates Manufacturing Company, and Pepperell Manufacturing Company in Biddeford, Saco, and Sanford, Maine; Textron, Incorporated (previously Nashua Manufacturing Company) in Nashua, New Hampshire; the Fort Dummer mill (Berkshire Hathaway, Incorporated) in Brattleboro, Vermont; the Berkshire mills (Berkshire Hathaway, Incorporated) of Adams, Massachusetts; Wauregan Mills, Incorporated of Wauregan, Connecticut.Tags Adams MA, Arctic RI, Biddeford ME, Brattleboro VT, Business and Economics, Central Village CT, Clyde RI, Connecticut, Crompton RI, Danielson CT, Death and Disaster, Government and Politics, Labor History, Lippit RI, Maine, Massachusetts, Mills and Mill Work, Moosup CT, Nashua NH, Natick RI, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Old Orchard Beach ME, Pawtuxet River Valley, Phoenix RI, Plainfield CT, Providence RI, Quinebaug River Valley, Rhode Island, Riverpoint RI, Saco ME, Sanford ME, South Carolina, Vermont, Wauregan CT, West Warwick RI -
The Art of Fiction, No. 199
Author: Proulx, AnnieDate: 2009 SpringLanguage : enFind in a library: 1641889 -
This Splendid Game : Maine Campaigns and Elections, 1940-2002
Author: Potholm, Christian P.Date: 2003Publication: Lexington BooksLanguage : enSource : PreviewFind in a library: 51178191An insider's analysis of Maine politics from World War II to the beginning of the 21st century. Close reading and critical examination of one major election in each of the decades between 1940 and 2000: their historical contexts, their candidates or issues, and the campaigns that influenced their outcomes. Includes analyses of elections involving such characters as Margaret Chase Smith, Ed Muskie, Ken Curtis, Elmer Violette, Bill Cohen, Angus King, and Susan Collins. The public approaches that led to their success or failure; the impact of these campaigns and elections on Maine politics more broadly. The shape of Maine political parties by the end of the 20th century. Election analysis after 1970 includes the author's own experiences in Maine politics. -
I took my dead father to a Red Sox game
Author: Currie, Ron, Jr.Date: 2012-03-09Language : enSource : Full textShort fiction piece by Waterville, Maine writer, Ron Currie, Jr., about a trip to Fenway Park with his dead father. Published in the online magazine, "Salon," with reference to the author's recent novel, "Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles" (Viking, 2013). -
Holeb : The Way I Remember It
Author: Grenier, Ross L.Date: 2010Publication: Monkey PublishingLanguage : enMemoir 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, schooling, work, and community. -
Les Franco-Américains et leurs institutions scolaires
Author: Quintal, Claire (rédactrice)Date: 1990Publication: L'Institut français, Collège de l'AssomptionLanguage : frFind in a library: 23951441Le septième colloque de l'Institut français du Collège de l'Assomption, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1990. Présentations sur l'éducation et les institutions scolaires dans les communautés franco-américaines de la Nouvelle-Angleterre; mettant l'accent sur les écoles paroissiales, les collèges catholiques, les ordres religieuses catholiques, et l'occasion de la langue française dans la salle de classe. Des profils historiques de beaucoup des écoles paroissiales catholiques dans les six états de la Nouvelle-Angleterre. Brefs profils biographiques des auteurs qui ont contribué au colloque.Tags Acadia, Albion RI, Augusta ME, Beecher Falls VT, Berlin NH, Biddeford ME, Blackstone MA, Burlington VT, Cascade NH, Central Falls RI, Chicopee MA, Clubs and Societies, Cohoes NY, Conference Proceedings, Connecticut, Education, Emigration and Immigration, France, Gardner MA, Gilbertville MA, Glens Falls NY, Goffstown NH, Hartford CT, Haverhill MA, Holyoke MA, Ipswich MA, Island Pond VT, Language and Linguistics, Lawrence MA, Lewiston ME, Lisbon ME, Lowell MA, Lynn MA, Madawaska ME, Maine, Manchester NH, Manville RI, Marieville RI, Marlboro MA, Massachusetts, Mexico ME, New Hampshire, New London CT, New York, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Education, North Adams MA, North America, Northampton MA, Ottawa ON, Pittsfield MA, Providence RI, Putnam CT, Québec, Religion, Rhode Island, Rutland VT, Saco ME, Southbridge MA, Springvale ME, Three Rivers MA, Trumbull CT, Turners Falls MA, Tyngsboro MA, Vermont, Ware MA, Webster MA, West Warwick RI, Westbrook ME, Whitinsville MA, Willimantic CT, Winchendon MA, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA, Youth -
Historically Speaking on Lewiston-Auburn, Maine Churches
Author: Skinner, Ralph B.Date: 1965Publication: Twin City PrinteryLanguage : enFind in a library: 1425699Historical overview of the churches and religious communities spread throughout the twin cities of Lewiston and Auburn, Maine, from the 18th century to the 1960s. Discussions on the various growths of local buildings and congregations - divided by denomination. Includes Christian churches, Jewish synagogues, and discussion on ecumenism and inter-faith communities. Compiled and expanded from "Home History Talks," the author's historical commentaries broadcast on Lewiston, Maine's WLAM radio. Illustrated in black and white photograph. -
The Spice of Popery : Converging Christianities on an Early American Frontier
Author: Chmielewski, Laura M.Date: 2012Publication: University of Notre Dame PressLanguage : enFind in a library: 726819031Exploration of Maine's religious culture and various religious identities in the 17th and early 18th centuries. A study of religious eclecticism in the New England/New France borderland that complicates conventional notions of Christian orthodoxy, or of various Protestant and Catholic peoples and ways of living, in a corner of North America during the Colonial Period. The region's interactions between European Protestant settlers, Wabanaki, and French Catholics; the interplay of their various powers and religious varieties; the birth of hybrid borderland cultures; the solidification of religious identities. Particular emphasis on Catholic/Protestant conflicts in this time period and region. Illustrated with maps, portraits, and black and white photographs. Based on the 2006 dissertation of a similar title. -
Dial 581-FROG : The Struggle over Self-Naming by Franco-Americans in Maine
Author: Peterson, Eric E.Date: 1991Publication: Verlag für Interkulturelle KommunikationLanguage : enFind in a library: 25826165Essay exploring the 1989 controversy surrounding the Maine State Legislature's protest over the University of Maine Franco-American Centre's use of the word "frog" in advertising its telephone number: 581-FROG. A case-study in communication research that identifies the divergences between Franco American legislators and Franco American university activists in terms of their attitudes toward language, self-naming, and dominant modes of discourse. Brief historical background. -
Bird Cloud : A Memoir
Author: Proulx, AnnieDate: 2011Publication: ScribnerLanguage : enSource : PreviewFind in a library: 555641609Narrative 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, archaeological, and genealogical portraits of her family, her various regions, and their people woven throughout. Vivid descriptions of natural life in the rural United States that add to several chapters on the processes of architecting, building, and getting acquainted with her Wyoming home - Bird Cloud - and its own histories. From the author of "The Shipping News," "Accordion Crimes," and several other notable works of fiction.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Art and Architecture, Connecticut, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Genealogy, Geography, Maine, Montréal QC, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Rhode Island, Saratoga WY, Travel and Movement, Vermont, Willimantic CT, Wyoming -
From Little French Mary to Cuzak's Boys : Aspects of the Immigrant Experience in the Work of Sarah Orne Jewett and Willa Cather
Author: Frater, GrahamDate: 1996Publication: The Edwin Mellen PressLanguage : enFind in a library: 33819491Descriptions of immigrant Americans in the literary works of Sarah Orne Jewett and Willa Cather. What immigrant experiences lend to each author's thematic details. Jewett's characterizations of French Canadian and Irish characters in New England towns in the nineteenth century; Cather's twentieth century depictions of more diverse European and North American immigrant groups. Allusions to the two authors' brief friendship. Suggestions of Jewett's potential influence on Cather's style and content. -
Who Will Log in Maine's North Woods? A Cross-Cultural Study of Occupational Choice and Prestige
Author: Egan, AndrewDate: 2004-12-01Language : enFind in a library: 10394971Study of Maine- and Québec-rooted loggers in Maine's northern woods on the Québec border. Presentation of survey results depicting the attitudes of Maine and Québec loggers toward their occupation, their understanding of public perceptions toward logging, and their predictions for the future of the industry. Survey results report information on loggers' economic conditions, educational attainment, and other demographic categories. Analyses of survey findings, with the perspectives of Anglophone and Francophone workers, presented by authors from the University of Maine and l'Université Laval. -
Spoons' Spoons : The Life and Times of Theodore Edouard "Spoons" Michaud
Author: Michaud, Theodore EdouardDate: 2012Publication: Self-publishedLanguage : enFind in a library: Available at Franco American Centre, UMaineBiography of Eddie "Spoons" Michaud, renowned musician from Old Town, Maine. Stories of his life, times, family, and friends from 1923 to the present. Includes black and white photographs of Michaud throughout his life, both with and without his namesake instrument - the spoons - as well as select representations of maps of Maine towns. -
Inside, Looking Out
Author: Lemay, HardingDate: 1971Publication: Harper & RowLanguage : enFind in a library: 136962Memoir 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 friends who find him there. His later military training and participation in World War II in Europe. Back to Manhattan to one failed and one successful marriage, and to live and work among books: in libraries, with publishing executives, and finally as a writer. His persistent love of books and struggles with language. -
Postnational United States Regional Hinterlands : Proulx's Ethnic Working-Class Communities in Accordion Crimes
Author: Werden, DouglasDate: 2009Publication: Lexington BooksLanguage : enSource : PreviewFind in a library: 233030405Essay analyzing Annie Proulx's novel, "Accordion Crimes," according to the ethnic groups, working-classes, and cultural identities its characters simultaneously challenge and represent. A mid-1990s United States commentary on assimilation, acculturation, race, and place-identity in which this article's author situates the novel. The symbol of the accordion across cultural and geographic lines, within and across certain immigrant communities in the United States, in environments that temper American myths of upward mobility, and within musical communities of diverse qualities.Tags African Americans, Basque, Cajuns, Chicago IL, Creoles, German Americans, Immigration, Iowa, Italian Americans, Literary Works, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Louisiana, Maine, Mexican Americans, Minnesota, Montana, Music, Polish Americans, Québec, Sicilian Americans, Viennese Americans, Violence -
Vandal Love
Author: Béchard, Deni Y.Date: 2012 (2006, Canada edition)Publication: Milkweed Editions (originally published by Doubleday)Language : enSource : PreviewFind in a library: 758646813Novel tracing a century of Québec's Hervé family in the United States and Canada, and the genetic conditions that have turned its offspring "alternately [into] brutes or runts" (4). Jude the emigrant boxer in 1960s Georgia and Louisiana, and Isa, his abandoned daughter, into Virginia and Maine. Georgianne and the runt orphaned grandchild, François, from Québec across the Canadian provinces in the middle 20th century; Harvey, his son, and the parental separation that removes one from the other. Harvey's personal spiritual quest across the American Southwest. The tragedy and genealogical loops that unify the characters and their movements through time across North America. -
Language and Culture : Heritage and Horizons : The 1976 Northeast Conference
Author: Arsenault, PhilipDate: 1976-09-10Language : enFind in a library: 1642244Summary description of the twenty-third annual meeting of the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, held in New York City. The conference's theme relating to the origins and endurance of languages other than English among immigrant groups in the United States, and culminating in three reports: "Origins," "Cultural Pluralism," and "Contributions." Descriptions of conference participants and program content, with emphases on French, Spanish, and German languages. Includes brief descriptions of the work of Normand Dubé, Don Dugas, Guy Dubay, Alain Blanchet, Paul Chassé, Claire Quintal, Nelson Pepin, Joan Young, Roger Paradis, Richard Santerre, Ann Woolfson, Robert Paris, and others. -
New Towns of the Early New England Textile Industry
Author: Candee, Richard M.Date: 1982Language : enFind in a library: 71305819Article in vernacular architecture describing New England industrial community development in the new textile towns of the early 19th century. Emphasis on textile operations and their accompanying communities and building innovations between 1820 and 1840. An attempt at departing from the employer/employee bifuracted model of community development. Comparisons between characteristics of Providence and Boston/Waltham factory and village models; observations of imitative architectural practices in each model's region. Includes select artistic representations of early industrial towns in New England.Tags Berwick ME, Blackstone River Valley, Boston MA, Central Falls RI, Centreville CT, Chelmsford MA, Chicopee MA, Clayville RI, Concord River Valley, Connecticut, Dover NH, Fiskeville RI, Harris RI, Lowell MA, Maine, Manchester NH, Massachusetts, Merrimack River Valley, Mills and Mill Work, Moosup CT, New England, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Art and Architecture, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Pawtucket RI, Peterborough NH, Portsmouth NH, Providence RI, Rhode Island, Saco ME, Salmon Falls NH, Somersworth NH, Southbridge MA, Stow MA, Vermont, Waltham MA, Willimantic CT, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
Normand Beaupré, militant de la résistance canadienne-française aux États-Unis
Author: Simard, JeanDate: 2010Language : frFind in a library: 53905023Un portrait autobiographique raconté par l'auteur franco-américain, Normand Beaupré, de Biddeford, Maine, sur sa profession, sa vie academique, et sa vocation comme écrivain de la langue française dans la Nouvelle-Angleterre. -
The Back Roads
Author: Martin, JaneDate: 2013-fallLanguage : enFind in a library: 60637997Short story narrating Maxime's detours: from a rare West Coast business trip out of Maine to visit his sister and her partner in San Francisco; from routes of his present to certain back roads of memory. -
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 -
Older Women Doing Home Care : Exploitation or Ideal Job?
Author: Butler, Sandra S.Date: 2013Language : enFind in a library: 4392786Article exploring the contexts and conditions of older age women as increasingly common personal assistance and home care aides in the twenty-first century. This occupation at the convergence of the growing need for home care workers in American homes, with the financial insecurity of older active adults in need of supplemental income, and who are able to provide social support and physical assistance to elders in need of care-taking. Author asks: "As older women are choosing, or being forced, to work later in life, is personal care work in their best interest?" (300). Article based on mixed-methods research - the Older Worker Study - including interviews with Maine home health workers: discussion of financial status, family status, work history, and attitudes toward age and experience. Written by a Professor of Social Work at the University of Maine.