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• Occupational and Educational Patterns for New Hampshire's Franco-Americans

  A 1970s report seeking "to define the status of Franco-Americans in New Hampshire, and their relationships to the majority culture." With data from the US census and a variety of business and education studies (published and not), Doane seeks to get beneath the reality of the under-representation of Franco Americans on many levels of New Hampshire labor and academics. She writes: "...the Franco-American Research Project was established in April 1978 by the New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union for the purpose of gathering additional information relating to the occupational and educational status of New Hampshire's Franco-American community. This report presents the findings of the project during its year of operation (1979)."

  Tags Allenstown NH, Bedford NH, Berlin NH, Claremont NH, Clarksville NH, Colebrook NH, Concord NH, Demography, Derry NH, Dover NH, Dummer NH, Education, Franklin NH, Goffstown NH, Gorham NH, Greenville NH, Hooksett NH, Hudson NH, Jaffrey NH, Keene NH, Labor History, Laconia NH, Language and Linguistics, Lincoln NH, Litchfield NH, Manchester NH, Mills and Mill Work, Nashua NH, New England, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Demography, Northumberland NH, Pembroke NH, Portsmouth NH, Rochester NH, Rollinsford NH, Salem NH, Somersworth NH, Stewartstown NH

• The Gray Mills of Farley

  Short 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

  Tags Business and Economics, Emigration and Immigration, Family, Fiction and Literature, Irish Americans, Literary Works -- Fiction, Literary Works -- Short fiction, Maine, Mills and Mill Work, New Hampshire, Religion, Rollinsford NH, South Berwick ME

• Jewett and the Incorporation of New England : "The Gray Mills of Farley"

  Critical 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