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- Author: Hareven, Tamara K.
Date: 1992
Book Title: Public History Readings
Language: en
Find in a Library: 20852879
Essay 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…
- Author: Fontaine, Robert Louis
Date: 1953
Language: en
Find in a Library: 1687374
Find Online: OL6132711M
Autobiographical novel revisiting a boy's childhood in Ottawa and the colorful character of his armchair philosopher uncle, Louis LaFrance. When Uncle Louis's marriage troubles find him moving in with the narrator child and his two parents, the…
- Author: Gagnon, Richard L.
Date: 1995
Language: en
Find in a Library: 35172722
Find Online: OL1029502M
History of the Roman Catholic parish of Notre-Dame-des-Canadiens (what became "Notre Dame/St. Joseph Parish") in Worcester, Massachusetts, from 1869 to 1995. Presented chronologically according to the lives and service of parish pastors and the…
- Author: Buhle, Paul (editor)
- Author: Staub, Michael (editor)
Date: 1987-05-00
Publication: Rhode Island History
Volume: 46
Language: en
Find in a Library: 1696593
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Article 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…
- Author: Monette, Paul
Date: 1992
Language: en
Find in a Library: 24872593
Autobiography and coming-out narrative of Paul Monette, an Andover, Massachusetts writer. Monette recounts twenty-five closeted years of alienation and invisibility, explorations of his sexual identity, and observations on the sexual prejudice and…
- Author: Lambert, Adélard
Date: 1927-00-00
Language: fr
Find in a Library: 6156497
Témoignage autobiographique d'un homme à Manchester, New Hampshire et sa relation avec les livres. Son accumulation à vie de milles de livres de "Canadiana" et "Franco-Americana," et les histoires qui l'accompagnent, vers leur lieu de repos à…
- Author: Nicosia, Gerald
Date: 1983-00-00
Language: en
Find in a Library: 9392871
Biography of Lowell, Massachusetts native, poet, and author, Jack Kerouac, widely known as a founding participant in the 20th century USA literary culture that came to be called the "Beat Movement," or the "Beat Generation." Kerouac's life from birth…
- Author: Wood, Monica
Date: 2012
Language: en
Find in a Library: 719673406
Memoir 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…
- Author: Rivard, Paul E.
Date: 2002
Language: en
Find in a Library: 48958482
Find Online: OL8793733M
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General 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…
- Author: Trottier, Maurice
Date: 1983-2-10
Language: fr
Find in a Library: 12245676
Un ensemble de brèves présentations littéraires et d'études sur les vies et les ouevres de plusieurs écrivain(e)s - locales et internationales, anglophones et francohpones - qui ont eu un influence sur l'auteur. Des…
- Author: Quintal, Claire (rédactrice)
Date: 1992
Language: fr
Find in a Library: 27315869
Un livre d'essais critiques et biographiques sur la littérature franco-américane et ses créateurs. Certains extraits littéraires des œuvres littéraire d'auteurs franco-américains contemporains, en…
- Author: Kerouac, Jack
Date: 1995-00-00
Language: en
Find in a Library: 30593133
Collection of selected correspondence between writer Jack Kerouac and family, friends, and other literary figures before 1956. Includes letters to and from William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg; to Kerouac's mother, Gabrielle Kerouac; Neal Cassady;…
- Author: Kerouac, Jack
Date: 1999-00-00
Language: en
Find in a Library: 40698633
Collection of selected correspondence between writer Jack Kerouac and friends, other literary figures, and some family from 1957 to the author's death in 1969. Includes letters to William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg; Lawrence Ferlinghetti;…
- Author: Kerouac, Jack
Date: 2004-00-00
Language: en
Find in a Library: 55962427
Edited selections from the personal, previously unpublished writings of writer Jack Kerouac, from 1947 to 1954. Daily thoughts and travel logs presented together with more formal musings. Contains two sections of personal journal entries and work…
- Author: Gauvreau, Emile
Date: 1941
Language: English
Find in a Library: 334962
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Autobiography of famed newspaperman, Emile Gavreau. His youth in the first decade of the twentieth century in New Haven, Connecticut, and among family in Montréal. A family's pervasive Catholicism; an early attachment to reading; intimate…
- Author: Cormier, Robert
Date: 1991
Language: English
Find in a Library: 22239995
Book-length collection of 85 selected newspaper columns and magazine pieces written by famed author Robert Cormier of Leominster, Massachusetts, published between 1951 and 1980. Writings featured in this text were printed in the "Fitchburg Sentinel…
- Author: Kerouac, Jack
Date: 1990
Language: English
Find in a Library: 23129491
Short compilation of selected, transcribed segments of interviews conducted with Jack Kerouac between 1957 and 1969. Some of Kerouac's thoughts on ancestry, the Beat Generation, literature, his writing, Buddhism, Catholicism, family, and his hometown…
- Author: Barrows, Gridley
- Author: Kirk, Geneva
Date: 1982
Language: en
Find in a Library: 8863341
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The third book in a series on the history of Lewiston, Maine, Historic Lewiston, from the Lewiston Historical Commission. Historic Lewiston: Its Government is a 3-part, 53-page overview of Lewiston's town and city government from incorporation, to…