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  • Author: Birkerts, Sven

Date: 2005 January 16

Publication: The New York Times

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1645522, 1760220

A review of "American Ghosts" - memoir from fiction writer and Providence, Rhode Island native, David Plante. The reviewer describes the book as "a perfect example of the cockpit autobiography," leading the reader into the thoughts and images of a…

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  • Author: Black, Barbara

Date: 1984 April 20

Publication: The Gazette

Language: English

Find in a Library: 60623870

Article subtitled, "This first novel describes the attempt of a Franco-American to find out who he is." A review of the 1984 novel "The Questing Beast" and a brief biographical sketch of its author, Richard Hébert.

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  • Author: Robbins, Rhea Côté

Date: 1990 April

Publication: Portland: Maine's City Magazine

Volume: 5

Language: English

Find in a Library: 29353487

Autobiographical magazine piece by a writer from Waterville, Maine. Reflections on her women ancestors and the Waterville neighborhood where they once lived, "down the Plains." Thoughts on the contemporary Franco-American woman experience, with a…

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  • Author: Liptak, Msgr. David Q.

Date: 2009 April 1

Publication: The Catholic Transcript

Language: English

Find in a Library: 17864375

Short response to a question submitted to the monthly newspaper of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford regarding First Amendment politics, the Acadians, and the history of anti-Catholic prejudice in Connecticut.

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  • Author: Cartwright, Steve

Date: 1993 March 5

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8814143, 60630676

After stepping down from his radio personality post at WBLM, Ernie Gagne, a.k.a. 'Frenchie,' takes part in a televised panel discussion about his ethnically-driven humor, its dissidents, and the cultural and historical issues it exhumes. The panel…

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  • Author: Cartwright, Steve

Date: 1993 January 15

Publication: Morning Sentinel

Language: English

Find in a Library: 38243806, 232119454, 38243825

Article on certain reactions to Portland, Maine, radio station, WBLM's morning broadcast featuring humor based on "a slow-witted Franco-American" character. Differing public attitudes toward the station's program, including complaints issued by the…

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  • Author: Cartwright, Steve

Date: 1993 December 20

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8814143, 60630676

Ernie Gagne, humorist and Maine talk radio voice of the controversial "Frenchie" character, releases a cassette tape of his ethnically-driven jokes.

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  • Author: Waldron, FlorenceMae

Date: 2005 winter

Publication: Journal of American Ethnic History

Volume: 24

Language: en

Find in a Library: 366000054

Essay on women's labor in French Canadian immigrant communities in New England. Explores and qualifies the idea that, for women, migration could be equated with social and economic liberation. From the text: "The ways in which these women and girls…

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  • Author: Hartill, Daniel

Date: 2009 July 16

Publication: Sun Journal

Language: English

The fire at the Cowan Mill in Lewiston, Maine, as a spectacle: the crowds watching it blaze, the memories of its workers from long ago, the impact of its burning on the city's daily routine.

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  • Author: Shaw, Elizabeth

Date: 1989 November 28

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8814143, 60630676

Letter to the editor that argues (tongue-in-cheek?) how the gender of the French term "le club" is reason enough for Le Club Calumet of Augusta, Maine, to justify rejecting a woman's application for membership in 1989.

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  • Author: Kaell, Hillary

Date: 2007

Publication: Historical Studies

Volume: 73

Language: English

Find in a Library: 12864095

From a publication of the Canadian Catholic Historical Association. Essay that situates the early-twentieth-century "mystic stigmatic" figure of Marie-Rose Ferron in a Franco American religious history. Using Ferron's biography as measure, Kaell sees…

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  • Author: Doty, C. Stewart

Date: 1997 October

Publication: Journal of Contemporary History

Volume: 32

Language: en

Find in a Library: 477889483

Essay on the Franco American elite's adopted regard for French fascist politics and sentiment in New England. How WWII heightened political divisions in the United States, and the Franco elite failed to appeal politically to working-class Franco…

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  • Author: Washuk, Bonnie

Date: 2010 November 4

Publication: Sun Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 26622903

Lewiston/Auburn, Maine, reaction to Paul LePage - a Franco American from Lewiston and Waterville - becoming the next governor of the state. Some insist LePage's ethnicity will raise the conversation about Franco Americans in Maine to a greater level,…

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  • Author: L'Heureux, Juliana

Date: 2010 March 10

Publication: Portland Press Herald

Language: English

Find in a Library: 9341113

Article on Dyke Hendrickson's 1980 oral history book, "Quiet Presence," and its perceivable resonance into the present day.

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  • Author: Cartwright, Steve

Date: 1998 May 14

Publication: Maine Times

Language: English

Find in a Library: 60621234, 52425179

Interview with Maine language teacher, Charlie Hicks, on his passion for the French language and the benefits of teaching it to young people.

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  • Author: Hillinger, Charles

Date: 1985 January 28

Publication: Los Angeles Times

Language: English

Find in a Library: 3638237, 192107378, 11200117

Feature article attempting to characterize the historical plight of the Franco American people of the state of Maine. Contains brief quotes from social leaders and commentators in Bangor, Lewiston, Van Buren, and Orono. Abridged version of the…

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  • Author: Aylward, Susan L.

Date: 1998

Language: English

Find in a Library: <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40702182">40702182</a>

From the author: "David Plante, an American writer born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1940, examines the inextricable connection between space and time, place and identity in his most important work, a series of semi-autobiographical novels and…

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  • Author: Senier, Siobhan

Date: 2010 Fall

Publication: Studies in American Indian Literatures

Volume: 22

Language: English

Find in a Library: 759351046

Article critically describing and exploring the work of poet and visual artist Cheryl Savageau through the contexts of other 20th and 21st century Abenaki historical and literary writings. Savageau is the author of the collections "Home Country,"…

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  • Author: Plante, Chantal
  • Author: Baribeau, Celine

Date: 2010 March 18

Language: English, with some français

Find in a Library: 3190 (BCTV)

A public television broadcast out of Bedford, New Hampshire, "Bonjour" features highlights of Quebec and New England for the purpose of re-educating New Hampshire about the breadth of its French heritage, seen across the state in its Franco…

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  • Author: Anctil, Pierre

Date: 1981

Publication: Recherches sociographiques

Volume: 22

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 60688713, 1763510

Une critique de la centième année après la publication d'un rapport gouvernemental Massachusetts qui a nommé les émigrants Canadiens français dans la Nouvelle-Angleterre, "les Chinois des Etats de l'est." Une exploration de ce que ces mots…

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  • Author: Fahrni, Magdalena
  • Author: Frenette, Yves

Date: 2008

Publication: Histoire sociale/Social history

Volume: 41

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 424601962

De Fahri et Frenette: "Entre juillet 1917 et octobre 1918, Alma Drouin, jeune Franco-Américaine de Laconia, au New Hampshire, séjourne a` Montréal. Ce sont les perspectives de mobilité professionnelle offertes par la métropole du Canada qui…

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  • Author: Chabot, Grégoire

Date: 2002 Spring/Summer

Publication: Québec Studies

Volume: 33

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 60628349

Certains écrits sur plusieurs des particularités (ou "idiosyncracies") des Franco-Américains, leurs croyances, et leurs difficultés. Des extraits du texte en plein. De l'auteur: "Anyway, j'trouve que ça vaut le peine d'examiner un peu ce qui…

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  • Author: DeRoche, Celeste

Date: 1996 December

Publication: The Oral History Review

Volume: 23

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1793844, 45954894

Historiographical essay on the dearth and fragmentation of source material relevant to working class Franco Americans - especially Franco American women. Considers the published reality that is "la survivance" in relation to the lived realities of…

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  • Author: Stevens, Harold

Date: 1965 March 1

Publication: Archives of Neurology

Volume: 12

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1513880

Article on a neurological disorder marked by violent and sometimes repetitive responses to startling movements or sounds, here found among lumbermen of French Canadian heritage in northern Maine. Based on an 1880 report of Dr. George M. Beard - the…

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  • Author: Boudreau, Sylvie

Date: 1992

Publication: Francophonies d'Amérique

Volume: 2

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 55667210 (le journal en plein)

Un révue comparatif de deux textes historiques qui ont pour sujet les franco-américains de la Nouvelle-Angleterre.

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  • Author: Myers, Mitzi

Date: 2000 September

Publication: The Lion and the Unicorn

Volume: 24

Language: English

Find in a Library: 31871270, 3134351

Print of an interview with novelist and Leominster, Massachusetts, native, Robert Cormier, as conducted by a UCLA professor of literature. A discussion of Cormier's novels' literary themes, his resistance to the label "Young Adult (YA)" writer, his…

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  • Author: Senécal, Joseph-André

Date: 2003 Winter/Spring

Publication: Vermont History: The Proceedings of the Vermont Historical Society

Volume: 71

Language:

Find in a Library: 1773222

Essay on the topic of ethnicity, ethnic whiteness, and the ethnic heritages of Vermont. An exploration in historiography that asks the question, "who are the 'real' Vermonters?" and considers how we could ever know the answer.

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  • Author: Deslauriers, Pierre

Date: 2002 Spring/Summer

Publication: Québec Studies

Volume: 33

Language: English, with some français

Find in a Library: 60628349

Essay on the history and persistence of Québécois vacationing in Maine beach towns, and the relative transitions that both Québec tourists and New England beach cultures have made since the beginning of their nearly 150 year marriage in summer…

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  • Author: Szelezak, Edith

Date: 2007 janvier

Publication: Glottopol: Revue de sociolinguistique en ligne

Volume: 9

Language:

Find in a Library: 163640790

Essay on linguistic phenomena -- "code-switching," "tag-switching," or other culturally indicative lingual breaks -- in Franco-American bilingual speech patterns. Includes a discussion of some common speech characteristics of Francophone Canada, as…

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  • Author: Langellier, Kristin M.
  • Author: Peterson, Eric E.

Date: 2006 December

Publication: Communication Monographs

Volume: 73

Language: English

Find in a Library: 2313630

Find Online: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/2313630 ; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/423741589

Paper in performance studies exploring the ways in which "family storytelling" performs, addresses, and complicates cultural markers within families and between family members. How ideas of race, class, gender, and sexuality appear in family…

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