Voyages : a Maine Franco-American reader / Nelson Madore & Barry Rodrigue, editors ; with Corinna Miller and Chase Hébert.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Madore, Nelson, 1943-

Rodrigue, Barry H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Franco-Americans--Maine--History.

Franco-Americans.

Franco-Americans--Maine--Social conditions.

Franco-Americans--Maine--Literary collections.

French-Canadians--Maine--History.

French-Canadians.

French-Canadians--Maine--Social conditions.

Acadians--Maine--History.

Acadians.

Acadians--Maine--Social conditions.

Maine--Ethnic relations.

Maine.

Maine--Literary collections.

Acadians--Social conditions.

Ethnic relations.

French-Canadians--Social conditions.

Genre:

History.

Literary collections.

Physical Description:

xlix, 606 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Edition:

1st pbk. ed.

Place of Publication:

Gardiner, Me. : Tilbury House, Publishers ; Lewiston, Me. : Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine, 2007.

Contents:

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 / Céleste DeRoche

A La Mémoire de nos Ancêtres (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 Labbé

woods cook / Yvon Labbé

The Jackman and Moose River Mission : from France to America with the Sisters of St. Joseph of Lyons, 1904-1932 / Gérard Forgue

A new home / Paul Caron

A childhood memory : midnight Mass at St Peter's and St. Paul's / Helen Lévesque

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 Côté 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 Côté 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 Gagné

One of Frenchie's stories : in heat / Ernie Gagné

La graine pousse (the seed sprout) / Normand Dubé

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 offensé (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 Labbé

Photo-documentary : Franco-American work traditions / Jere DeWaters

A Québec soldier in Maine / Barry Rodrigue

The silent playground / Ross and Judy Paradis

Mémère (Grandmother) / Raymond Luc Lavasseur

Tourtière (meat pie) / Philomène Létourneau Simard and Diane Simard McKenney

Voicing Mémère / 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 Beaupré

"Qui chus" (who I am), excerpt from La Souillonne / Normand Beaupré

Franco-Americans and a century of political elections, 1892-1992 / Madeleine Giguère

Ad astra per aspera

To the heavens through hardship : the Franco-American rise to political power in Maine / Christian Potholm

First campaigns / Georgette Bérubé

Maine Franco-Americans in politics / John Martin

Singing the vernacular, excerpts / Paul Paré

Brunswick : A bridge and its history / Julianna L'Heureux

Les non non blues (the no no blues) / Josée Vachon

Acadian Ployes / Emily Clavet Ouellette Martin and Sandra Dionne Croft

The neighborhood / Michelle Morgan

Why bother? / Michael Parent.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 554-593) and index.

Local Notes:

The French North American Collection.

Other Format:

Online version: Voyages.

ISBN:

9780884482949

0884482944

OCLC:

131062883