5 resources

• Modern Times in Maine & America: 1890-1930
  
  NHF Tape 1: SP-Dub of 'Modern Times' production made from Ggroerer/Creativideo production master. The program is a retrospective look at social and technological change in Maine and the United States during the period 1890-1930 and contains NHF archival footage. This version may/not contain a tag. This if NHF's best quality copy. NHF Tape 2: 3/4 in. dub of 'Modern Times' [from production master?] with long tag added 4/9/96. The long tag has MHC/Twentieth Century Project contact info plus NHF contact info. NHF Tape 3: 3/4 in. dub of Tape 2, with the long tag modified for broadcast purposes. The tag was modified by omitting the MHC/Twentieth Century Project segment. Use this version for broadcast requests, although it is second generation.
• Modern Times in Maine & America: 1890-1930
  
  This video explores the growth of the paper industry and hydroelectric utilities; Maine's role in American expansionism; immigration and the decline of agriculture; urban problems and Maine's contributions to progressive reform; the growing national interest in the outdoors; the effects of World War I; and the peculiar self-centeredness of the 1920s, fueled by automobiles, movies and radio. The story of Modern Times in Maine and America is told through original music, narration, rare moving images, many still photographs never publicly seen before, and interviews with Mainers who still sharply remember what life was likein the early years of the century.' ONSITE REFERENCE ONLY.
• Normand Dubé Education Papers - Finding Aid
  
  The papers of an educator, poet, and major figure in the Franco-American revival of the 1970s. The collection includes his poetry, artwork, correspondence, scrapbooks, manuscripts, published works, research materials, and teaching materials. Also included are materials concerning bilingual education, human rights, and the St. John Valley Bilingual Project.
• The Connection, The Book That Changed My Life: Part Five
  
  The fifth in a five-part series in which authors select and discuss a book that impacted their life. Russell Banks discusses Jack Kerouac's On the Road. Also included on the disc are other segments of the show, The Connection, broadcast on Boston NPR station WBUR.
• Vermont Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
  
  This collection contains official records, including meeting agendas, minutes, correspondence and reports, of the Vermont Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights between 1983 and 1991. Also documented are some activities of the Eastern Regional Division and news releases on the death of Clarence Pendleton. Included here is a report on the civil rights of Franco-Americans in Vermont.