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  Surviving : An Acadian Chronicle

  A history of the Morin family of Island Falls, Maine, situated in an historical account of the lifespan of Acadia - from the prehistoric, to French colonization and expulsion, to the twentieth century. Book one describes prehistory in the Northeastern borderlands, and provides historical accounts and descriptions of Wabanaki, Acadia, New France, and the British in Canada before 1800. Building from Book one, Book two describes Maine's border with Canada in the context of Acadia; Aroostook County; and the St. John River Valley; and traces a family history of the Morins into their twentieth century home at Island Falls, Maine.

  Tags Acadians, Ashland ME, Caribou ME, Castine ME, Exploration and Colonization, Family, France, Government and Politics, Island Falls ME, Madawaska ME, Maine, Maliseets, Mi'kmaq, New Brunswick, New England, Nova Scotia, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, Québec, St. John River Valley, War

• Franco-American Folklore : A Cornucopia of Culture

  Paper on the folklore of the Acadian and Malecite people of the St. John River Valley in New Brunswick and northern Maine. Types of Franco American folklore, processes of its retrieval and study, and what it teaches about the history of the communities from which it comes. Written by a folklorist and professor of history at the University of Maine at Fort Kent. Compiled from four summer seminar lectures at the University of Maine: Franco-American Folklore; Folklore and History; Folklore and Language; Stock-taking. Includes an index of names of people from Maine and New Brunswick whose folklore resources and idiomatic terms were included in the text of the paper. Reprinted in "Vers l'évolution d'un culture," by Céleste Roberge.

  Tags Acadians, Art and Architecture, Community: Customs and Social Life, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Folklore, Fort Kent ME, Maine, Maliseets, New Brunswick, St. John River Valley