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Second Sun : New and Selected Poems
Author: Tremblay, BillDate: 1985Publication: L'Epervier PressLanguage : enFind in a library: 11443258Poetry collection composed of new writings and other previously collected works featured in three of the writer's earlier publications: "Crying in the Cheap Seats" (1971), "The Anarchist Heart" (1977), and "Home Front" (1978). -
Never Back Down
Author: Hebert, ErnestDate: 2012Publication: David R. GodineLanguage : enFind in a library: 689858563Novel set in Keene, New Hampshire between the 1950s and early 2000s. Young baseball prospect Jack Landry comes of age with the Catholic sensibility and working-class ethos of his upbringing. Landry confronts stereotype, forbidden love's trials, and the perils of his personal success under the looming ethereal presences of an ancient event and his tragically killed Memere. A man's life between New England and New Orleans, configured through the guiding motto of his youth: "Never back down, never instigate."Tags Acadians, Cajuns, Death and Disaster, Family, Fiction and Literature, Florida, Gender and Sexuality, Irish Americans, Keene NH, Literary Works, Literary Works -- Fiction, Mexico ME, Mills and Mill Work, Mississippi, Native Americans, New Hampshire, New Orleans LA, Religion, Rumford ME, Sports and Leisure, White River Junction (Vt.), Youth -
Canuck, nomade franco-américaine : persistence et transformation de l'imaginaire canadien-français
Author: Aubé, Mary ElizabethDate: 1997Language : frFind in a library: 55667210Une étude sur le roman feuilleton "Canuck," par Camille Lessard-Bissonnette, comme example de la continuité des thèmes littéraires - et d'une imagination - canadiens-français dans la littérature aux États-Unis. Des transformations subtiles de ces thèmes dans un nouveau milieu américain. Une discussion d'un nouveau "nomadisme" nord-américain dans le texte : un histoire d'une famille émigrante à Lowell, Massachusetts. -
Performances of Franco-American Identity in Mirbah : A Portrait of Precious Blood Parish
Author: Lees, CynthiaDate: 2010-03-00Language : enFind in a library: 60628349Article exploring the French language novel, "Mirbah," written by Emma Dumas in Holyoke, Massachusetts in 1910. How the words and actions of the novel's characters can be read as various performances of Franco-American identity. A portrait of Holyoke's Precious Blood Roman Catholic Parish. A particular focus on religious practice and theatrical performance in Holyoke around 1910, and their occurrence within the text, . Thoughts on Dumas's personal commitment to "la survivance," and the writerly activities of her journalistic cultural contemporaries in the early 20th century. -
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." -
The Several Lives of Joan the Spinner : Honoré Beaugrand’s Jeanne la fileuse : épisode de l’émigration franco-canadienne aux États-Unis and the Making and Remaking of a French Canadian/Franco-American Novel
Author: Shanahan, BrendanDate: 2011Language : enSource : FULL TEXTFind in a library: 173021502Critical and historical analysis of of Honoré Beaugrand's 1877-1878 serialized novel, Jeanne la fileuse. Speculation on the author's political, social, and artistic motives for writing about nineteenth-century French Canadian emigration to New England, and the uniqueness of his liberal perspective at that time. Some thoughts on the novel's serialized publication in multiple newspapers, its soon-after publication as a single volume, and its twentieth-century re-publication in France and the United States. Differences among the published versions, varying intentions of the publishers, and consideration for each version's distinct audience. -
A Clue to Somersworth : La Malle Mystérieuse
Author: Littlefield, SusanDate: 1982Publication: National Materials Development CenterLanguage : enFind in a library: 9985339The story of a young buy from Québec - Jean-Pierre - who pays a visit to the sister city of his own Thetford Mines: Somersworth, New Hampshire. A day exploring with his new friend, Laurie, takes them to Grandpa's house, through stories of old, and into a history of the city of Somersworth. Designed for children in the bilingual education classroom. Presented in side-by-side English and French text. Illustrated with photos of Somersworth and other drawings.
L'histoire de Jean-Pierre, un garçon du Québec, qui part de Thetford Mines pour visiter la ville de Somersworth, New Hampshire. Une journée dans Somersworth avec ses nouveaux amis, Laurie et son grand-père, et une exploration de l'histoire de la ville par leurs contes et photos. Conçu pour les étudiants dans la classe bilingue. En anglais et français. Illustré par des photos de Somersworth et des autres dessins. -
Canuck
Author: Lessard-Bissonnette, CamilleDate: 1936Publication: Le MessagerLanguage : frFind in a library: 8517171Ce roman franco-américain essentiel commence en 1900 avec l'arrivée à Lowell, Massachusetts d'immigrants canadiens-français. La nouvelle vie de travail de Victoria (Vic) Labranche, quinze ans, dans les moulins de Lowell. Ses jours dans un Petit Canada de la Nouvelle-Angleterre. Son retour au Québec après avoir appris la maladie de son père. Publié à l'origine comme feuilleton par le journal Le Messager de Lewiston, Maine. Republié en 1980 par le National Materials Development Center à Bedford, New Hampshire. Traductions en anglais sont disponibles. (English translation is also available. Read more HERE)Tags Concord NH, Death and Disaster, Emigration and Immigration, Family, Fiction and Literature, Gender and Sexuality, Laconia NH, Literary Works -- Fiction, Lowell MA, Manchester NH, Merrimack River Valley, Mills and Mill Work, Nashua NH, Québec, St. Johnsbury VT, St. Martinville LA, Travel and Movement -
Performances of Franco-American Identity in Mirbah : A Portrait of Precious Blood Parish
Author: Lees, CynthiaDate: 2010-03-00Language : enFind in a library: 60628349Article exploring the French language novel, "Mirbah," written by Emma Dumas in Holyoke, Massachusetts in 1910. How the words and actions of the novel's characters can be read as various performances of Franco-American identity. A portrait of Holyoke's Precious Blood Roman Catholic Parish. A particular focus on religious practice and theatrical performance in Holyoke around 1910, and their occurrence within the text, . Thoughts on Dumas's personal commitment to "la survivance," and the writerly activities of her journalistic cultural contemporaries in the early 20th century. -
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 -
When We Were the Kennedys : A Memoir from Mexico, Maine
Author: Wood, MonicaDate: 2012Publication: Houghton Mifflin HarcourtLanguage : enSource : PreviewFind in a library: 719673406Memoir from Mexico, Maine native and author of fiction, Monica Wood. Recalls the period of the author's youth around the time of the sudden death of her father. Her family's experience of the loss of its breadwinner in the 1960s. The shape of her 1963 mill-centered community and the diversity of people who inhabited it; portraits of the power of religion and industry among people in the towns of Rumford and Mexico. President John F. Kennedy's 1963 assassination - and the widowhood of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis - recounted in light of the disruptive passing of the author's father earlier that same year. -
Les Franco-Américains : 1860-1980
Author: Weil, FrançoisDate: 1989Publication: BelinLanguage : frFind in a library: 23695732Un bref historique complet sur les Franco-Américains de la Nouvelle-Angleterre jusqu'à 1980. Une étude socielle, culturelle, démographique, et historiographique, basée "sur les travaux historiques existant" états-uniniens sur ce peuple et ses communautés dans le nord-est. Le mouvement, les paroisses et voisinages, les vies et le travail d'un peuple émigrant canadien-français et ses descendants. Des pensées sur le concept de "la survivance." Écrit par un scolaire français. Des illustrations en noir et blanc (photographie; dessins).Tags Albany NY, Auburn ME, Barre VT, Biddeford ME, Boston MA, Burlington VT, Cabotville MA, Central Falls RI, Chicopee Falls MA, Chicopee MA, Clubs and Societies, Cohoes NY, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Greek Americans, Hartford CT, Holyoke MA, Irish Americans, Lawrence MA, Lewiston ME, Lowell MA, Manchester NH, Marlboro MA, Merrimack River Valley, Mills and Mill Work, Nashua NH, New Bedford MA, New England, North Adams MA, Northampton MA, Old Town ME, Pawtucket RI, Portland ME, Providence RI, Québec, Rochester NY, Rutland VT, Salmon Falls NH, Southbridge MA, Spencer MA, Springfield MA, St. Albans VT, Troy NY, Waltham MA, Ware MA, White River Junction VT, Winooski VT, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
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 -
Constant Turmoil : The Politics of Industrial Life in Nineteenth-Century New England
Author: Blewett, Mary H.Date: 2000Publication: University of Massachusetts PressLanguage : enSource : PreviewFind in a library: 42772687Book-length social history exploring the development of industry, industrial life, and the power of the politics surrounding them in southeastern New England - especially Fall River, Massachusetts - in the nineteenth century. Discussions of gender in the contexts of textile mill work and labor unionism; immigrant workforces, class consciousness, and inter-worker strife. Includes a critical assessment of primary sources consulted, as well as an appendix with demographic and economic data tables referred to in the text.Tags Business and Economics, Connecticut, Coventry RI, English Americans, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Gender and Sexuality, Government and Politics, Irish Americans, Labor History, Lowell MA, Massachusetts, Meriden CT, Mills and Mill Work, New Bedford MA, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Norwalk CT, Providence RI, Quequechan River Valley, Rhode Island, Social History -
Research Methods in Visual and Comparative Analysis : Transportation and Sociability in Saint-Henri, Quebec and Lowell, Massachusetts, 1905–45
Author: Lord, KathleenDate: 2012Language : enFind in a library: 49517846Article analyzing how Montréal, Québec and Lowell, Massachusetts photography provides a means for exploring the relationship between patterns of transportation, public space, and social life through the early twentieth century. The history of North American urban streets as related to certain social, economic, and cultural elements of these North American cities. Suggestions for serious and selective approaches to studying photography together with historical texts. Discussion of theoretical implications for the use of photographs in historical research, with one collection of photographs from Montréal's Saint-Henri and four collections from Lowell's "Little Canada" as case studies. -
Canuck, nomade franco-américaine : persistence et transformation de l'imaginaire canadien-français
Author: Aubé, Mary ElizabethLanguage : frFind in a library: 55667210Une étude sur le roman feuilleton "Canuck," par Camille Lessard-Bissonnette, comme example de la continuité des thèmes littéraires - et d'une imagination - canadiens-français dans la littérature aux États-Unis. Des transformations subtiles de ces thèmes dans un nouveau milieu américain. Une discussion d'un nouveau "nomadisme" nord-américain dans le texte : un histoire d'une famille émigrante à Lowell, Massachusetts. -
Working People in the Post-Industrial Age, 1961-Present
Author: Buhle, Paul (editor)Date: 1987-05-00Language : enFind in a library: 1696593Article featuring selections of oral history interviews conducted with Rhode Island working people in the 1980s. Reflections on childhood in urban, industrial Rhode Island in the wake of industrial closures, changing demographic landscapes, and their impact on the state's collective identity. Stories of mill work in Pawtucket, the Narragansett Brewery, labor negotiations, the women's movement, and other social reform movements in Rhode Island in the 1960s and 1970s. Featured in Part Two of a Rhode Island History series entitled, "Working Lives: An Oral History of Rhode Island Labor."Tags Albion RI, Blackstone Valley RI, Central Falls RI, Emigration and Immigration, Gender and Sexuality, Government and Politics, Manville RI, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Pawtucket RI, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Rhode Island, Social History, United States, Youth -
The Great Textile Strike of 1934 : Illuminating Rhode Island History in the Thirties
Author: Findlay, James F.Date: 1983-02-00Language : enFind in a library: 1696593Article describing the scope of the Great Textile Strike of 1934 in Rhode Island, in the midst of the Great Depression and the decline of the New England textile industry. The impact of the strike's upheavals on Rhode Island life in the 1930s. The role of the United Textile Workers (UTW) labor union in the nationwide strike, its organization in Rhode Island, and its impact on other labor unions - especially the National Textile Workers (NTW) and the Independent Textile Union of Woonsocket (ITU). Localized outbursts of Rhode Island violence and the context for their occurrence. The strike's implications for Rhode Island politics. Illustrated in black and white photographs.Tags Fall River MA, Government and Politics, Labor History, Mills and Mill Work, New Bedford MA, Newport RI, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Pawtucket RI, Providence RI, Rhode Island, Saylesville RI, Violence, War, Warren RI, West Warwick RI, Woonsocket RI -
Lewis Hine's Photography and Reform in Rhode Island
Author: Victor, StephenDate: 1982-05-00Language : enFind in a library: 1696593Article on Lewis Hine's photographic work for the National Child Labor Committee, its ties with the National Consumers' League, and the photographer's place among progressive and humanitarian labor reform in early twentieth-century Rhode Island. The child welfare concerns and women and child labor reform initiatives of Alice Hunt and others of the Rhode Island Consumers' League during that time. How Hine's photographs reflect the humanitarian concerns of the political organizations with which he was associated. Examples of Hine's Rhode Island work in the publications of the NCLC, and the ways in which Rhode Island evidence of poor working and living conditions became part of national conversations about child welfare and housing reform, immigration, and, as the author puts it, "the dignity of work" (49). Illustrated with black and white photographs. Includes a list of Lewis Hine photographs held at the Slater Mill Historic Site in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.Tags Chicago IL, Emigration and Immigration, Gender and Sexuality, Government and Politics, Italian Americans, Lonsdale RI, Mills and Mill Work, New York NY, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Documentary, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- History -- Pictorial, Pawtucket RI, Pawtuxet River Valley, Photography, Providence RI, Rhode Island, Social History, Warren RI, Youth -
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 Search for Generational Memory
Author: Hareven, Tamara K.Date: 1992Publication: KriegerLanguage : enFind in a library: 20852879Essay describing the popularity of American search efforts for "generational memory" - or the shape of one's personal and social origins - through genealogy, oral history, and the new social history movement of the middle twentieth century. Uses the example of Alex Haley's 1976 book, "Roots," as an influence on such popular efforts, and an instance of American historical and cultural identity-searching whose precedents can be traced to the beginning of the twentieth century. Exposition on the craft of oral history and the type of knowledge it generates. Written by the author of "Amoskeag: Life and Work in an American Factory-City" (1978), which focuses on the Amoskeag Mills of Manchester, New Hampshire and its workers. -
Coping before l'État-providence : Collective Welfare Strategies of New England's Franco-Americans
Author: Richard, Mark PaulDate: 1998 SpringLanguage : enFind in a library: 60628349Article describing religious institutions and mutual aid societies created by French Canadian immigrant communities in New England around the turn of the century. Their functions for social welfare, economic well-being, and medical necessity among French-speaking, working-class, Catholic migrants. The appearance of these Québec-modeled support mechanisms - often Catholic, non-public - among urban, industrial communities before the appearance of welfare in the United States. Emphasis on Lewiston, Maine hospitals and religious orders; Manchester, New Hampshire and Woonsocket, Rhode Island mutual aid societies. -
Gendered Passages : French-Canadian Migration to Lowell, Massachusetts, 1900-1920
Author: Takai, YukariDate: 2008Publication: Peter LangLanguage : enSource : PreviewFind in a library: 774287243Book-length study on French Canadian migrants and migration to Lowell, Massachusetts at the beginning of the 20th century. The role of family in cross-border human movement, and the impact of migration and its social, economic, and labor dimensions on men, women, and children migrants in an industrial New England city. A study of French Canadian migration as an important and distinct continental population movement; the "socially expansive space[s]" created by migrants uniquely across Canada/USA borders. Emphasis on gender dynamics - their responses to migration, labor, and the family in transition, with explorations of the individual experiences of women and men. Includes study of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century social and economic contexts of Québec and Lowell, in-depth consideration of migration realities, and exploration of settlement in the United States through the lens of the paid and unpaid work experiences of French Canadian women and men. Contains many demographic data tables; illustrated in black and white photograph.Tags Boston MA, Caribou ME, Death and Disaster, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Gender and Sexuality, Geography, Greek Americans, Health and Wellness, Irish Americans, Labor History, Lowell MA, Manchester NH, Merrimack River Valley, Mills and Mill Work, Nashua NH, New York NY, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Portuguese Americans, Québec, Seattle WA, Social History, Sports and Leisure, Travel and Movement, Willimantic CT, Wisconsin