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The Franco-Americans of Lewiston-Auburn

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Franco-Americans brought their proud cultural legacy to Lewiston-Auburn beginning in the mid-nineteenth century. As their population grew, religious leaders became community leaders, building an independent parish and a support system, as well as providing child care. The Sisters of Charity cared for the sick and orphaned and ran the first bilingual school in Maine. Franco-Americans grappled with their own questions of patriotism, identity and culture, assimilating as Americans while preserving both their French and French Canadian backgrounds. Authors Mary Rice-DeFosse and James Myall explore the challenges, accomplishments and enduring bonds of the Franco-Americans in Lewiston-Auburn.


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Mary Rice-DeFosse is a professor of French and Francophone studies at Bates College. She and her students have collected oral histories from local residents as part of the department's Franco-American Oral History Project. She serves on the boards of Lewiston-Auburn's Franco Center for heritage and culture and the Franco-American Collection at the University of Southern Maine's Lewiston-Auburn College. She holds a PhD from Yale University.


Product details

Authors Mary Rice-Defosse, James Myall
Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)
 
Content Book
Product form Paperback / Softback
Publication date 26.01.2015
Subject Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
 
EAN 9781626194601
ISBN 978-1-62619-460-1
Pages 176
Dimensions (packing) 15 x 22.6 x 1.5 cm
Weight (packing) 376 g
 
Series American Heritage
American Heritage
Subjects SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, History - U.S., PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Historical, HISTORY / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural & Regional
 

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