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My Life on the Line : Recollections of a Childhood Spent in the Maine-New Brunswick Border Country during the Great Depression

Item

Title

My Life on the Line : Recollections of a Childhood Spent in the Maine-New Brunswick Border Country during the Great Depression

Creator

Stratton, Frances Morin Webb

Description

Memoirs of a Northern Maine woman growing up during the Great Depression, with family straddling the rural and agrarian borderland of Maine and New Brunswick. Memories of her great-grandmother and extended family from working on a New Brunswick farm in the summers of her youth. The tensions between her French Canadian Catholicism and the Presbyterianism of her New Brunswick relatives. Memories of her family and life in Island Falls, Maine. Parts of her search for her French lineage. Illustrated in black and white photograph.

Date

1985

Language

en

Type

Book

Identifier

Coverage

20th century; St. John River Valley, Maine; New Brunswick

URL

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