a Maine Franco-American reader Madore, Nelson 1943- Rodrigue, Barry H. text bibliography biography meu Gardiner, Me Lewiston, Me Tilbury House Franco- American Collection, University of Southern Maine 2007 1st pbk. ed. monographic eng

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l, 606 p.: ill., maps ; 26 cm. Includes essays, stories, plays, poetry, songs, and art that depict the Franco-American and Acadian experience in Maine. Explores subjects such as Quebec-Maine frontier history, immigrant drama, work, genealogy, discrimination, women, community affairs, religion, archeology, politics, literature, language, and humor. Gentility on the frontiers of Acadia, 1635-1674 : an archaeological perspective / Alaric Faulkner -- Eastern Abenaki autonomy and French frustrations, 1745-1760 / David Ghere -- An album in the attic : the forgotten frontier of the Quebec-Maine borderlands during the Revolutionary War / Barry Rodrigue -- Life on the farm and recipes / Luella and Eva Ashland Roderick -- Immigrants in a frontier community : Madawaska, 1785-1850 / Beatrice Craig -- An Acadian Odyssey / Don Cyr -- Soldiers, spuds, and spruce : Maine's military roads to the maritimes / Barry Rodrigue -- Understanding the French Canadians of Lewiston, 1860-1900 / Yves Frenette -- Immigrant Dream, I / Susann Pelletier -- Growing up in Brunswick in the 1930s and 1940s / Raymond Duval -- Petit Bois / Claude Bonang with Katie Camire -- Into the heart of Maine : a look at Dexter's Franco-American community / Dorothy Blanchard -- Sawdust in my ear / Roland Lapointe -- Franco-American and Lebanese textile workers in Waterville : la survivance economique / Matthew Laflamme -- "Je ne regrette rien" : Franco-American women in Maine : survival, resiliency, and community / Cľeste DeRoche -- A La Mm̌oire de nos Anct̊res (to the memory of our ancestors) / Mercedes Gastonguay -- The French Catholics in Maine / Clement Thibodeau -- Negotiating ethnic identity : St Jean- Baptiste Day celebrations in Francophone Lewiston, Maine / Mark Paul Richard -- Donat Labb ̌- woods cook / Yvon Labb ̌-- The Jackman and Moose River Mission : from France to America with the Sisters of St. Joseph of Lyons, 1904- 1932 / Gřard Forgue -- A new home / Paul Caron -- A childhood memory : midnight Mass at St Peter's and St. Paul's / Helen Lv̌esque -- Maine's Corporation Sole controversy / Michael Guignard -- The summer I was thirteen / Denis Ledoux -- An introduction to "Life in the mills" from Canuck, a novel by Camille Lessard-Bissonnette / Linda Pervier -- "Life in the mills," excerpt from Canuck / Camille Lessard-Bissonnette and Linda Pervier -- An introduction to Canuck and Camille Lessard-Bissonnette : why read it now? / Sylvie Charron and Rhea Ct̥ ̌Robbins -- Franco-Americans and the International Paper Company Strike of 1910 / Anders Larson -- An excerpt from Papa Martel / Gerard Robicheaud -- J'aimais (I used to love) / Jean-Paul Poulain -- Passing the flame / Cindy Larock -- French-Canadian genealogical research / Bob Chenard -- Down the plains, an excerpt / Rhea Ct̥ ̌Robbins -- Calice / Greg Chabot -- The Lane Road, 1958 / Susann Pelletier -- What we gather in November / Susann Pelletier -- How many Frenchmen does it take to... / C. Stewart Doty -- The lessons of living in a Francophobic world / Pat LaMarche - - French jokes -- When funny might not be... / Ernie Gagn ̌-- One of Frenchie's stories : in heat / Ernie Gagn ̌-- La graine pousse (the seed sprout) / Normand Dub ̌-- Everything's just finophobia / Greg Chabot -- Research note : Maine "Jim Crow"? the forgotten Maine constitutional amendment of 1891 / Rebecca Dirnfeld -- A short autobiography for my daughter / Raymond Luc Levasseur -- Under wintery constellations / Susann Pelletier -- A ceux qui m'ont offens ̌(for those who have offended me) / Jean-Paul Poulain -- Franco-American identity at the University of Maine / Michael Serizawa Brown -- Beau frog / Peter Archambault -- Out of the shadows / Yvon Labb ̌-- Photo-documentary : Franco- American work traditions / Jere DeWaters -- A Qub̌ec soldier in Maine / Barry Rodrigue -- The silent playground / Ross and Judy Paradis -- Mm̌r̈e (Grandmother) / Raymond Luc Lavasseur -- Tourtir̈e (meat pie) / Philomn̈e Lťourneau Simard and Diane Simard McKenney -- Voicing Mm̌r̈e / Kristin Langellier -- On becoming a Franco- American / Richard Pattenaude -- She appears / Jim Bishop -- Livres (Books) / Maureen Perry -- My writing of La Souillonne (the filthy woman) / Normand Beaupr ̌-- "Qui chus" (who I am), excerpt from La Souillonne / Normand Beaupr ̌-- Franco-Americans and a century of political elections, 1892-1992 / Madeleine Gigur̈e -- Ad astra per aspera - To the heavens through hardship : the Franco- American rise to political power in Maine / Christian Potholm -- First campaigns / Georgette Břub ̌-- Maine Franco-Americans in politics / John Martin -- Singing the vernacular, excerpts / Paul Par ̌-- Brunswick : A bridge and its history / Julianna L'Heureux -- Les non non blues (the no no blues) / Josě Vachon -- Acadian Ployes / Emily Clavet Ouellette Martin and Sandra Dionne Croft -- The neighborhood / Michelle Morgan -- Why bother? / Michael Parent. Nelson Madore & Barry Rodrigue, editors ; with Corinna Miller & Chase Hb̌ert. Includes bibliographical references (p. 554-593) and index. n-us-me n-cn-qu n-cn--- French Americans Maine History French Americans Maine Social conditions French Americans Maine Literary collections French-Canadians Maine History French-Canadians Maine Social conditions Acadians Maine History Acadians Maine Social conditions Maine Ethnic relations Maine Literary collections F30.F8 V695 2007 974.1/00441 9780884482949 (pbk. : alk. paper) 2007018129 DLC 090212 20190501221858.0