16 resources

• Josephine Morin, interviewed by Marcella Sorg and Steffan Duplessis
  
  NA1698 Josephine Morin, interviewed by Marcella Sorg and Steffan Duplessis, March 19, 1981, Lewiston, Maine. 39 pp. Tape: 1 1/4 hrs. w/ handwritten trans. French. Morin talks about her life as a Franco-American. Text: transcript (handwritten). Recording: T 1819 1 1/4 hours French.
• Antoinette Boucher, interviewed by Steffan Duplessis and Mark Silber
  
  1696 Antoinette Boucher, interviewed by Steffan Duplessis and Mark Silber, December 15, 1980, Lewiston, Maine. 19 pp. Tape: 3/4 hr. w/ trans. French. Boucher talks about her life as a Franco-American and her family history. Text: transcript. Recording: T 1817 3/4 hour.
• Juliette Filteau, interviewed by Steffan Duplessis and Mark Silber
  
  1695 Juliette Filteau, interviewed by Steffan Duplessis and Mark Silber, February 19, 1981, Lewiston, Maine. Filteau discusses her childhood in Canada during the 1910s and 20s; moving to Lewiston in 1923; working in the shoe shop as a teenager; nuns and a convent in Canada; raising her daughter’s children; dates with her future husband; importance of religion and changes in Catholicism; leaving her alcoholic first husband, her catering business; opening her restaurant; dealing with drunks; buying black market food during WWII; serving Franco-American food; taking care of her parents; and making maple sugar in Canada. Text: 39 pp. partial transcript. Recording: T 1816 1 hour.
• Cecile Boisvert, interviewed by Steffan Duplessis, Marcella Sorg, and Mark Silber
  
  1694 Cecile Boisvert, interviewed by Steffan Duplessis, Marcella Sorg, and Mark Silber, winter 1981, Lewiston, Maine. 38 pp. Tape: 1 1/4 hr. w/ handwritten trans. French. Boisvert talks about her life as a Franco-American. Text: handwritten transcript. Recording: T 1815 1-1/4 hour, French.
• Romeo Boisvert, interviewed by Steffan Duplessis and Raymond Pelletier
  
  1693 Romeo Boisvert, interviewed by Steffan Duplessis and Raymond Pelletier, January 8, 1981, Lewiston, Maine. 38 pp. Tape: 1 3/4 hrs. w/ handwritten trans. Boisvert talks about his life as a Franco-American. Partially in French. Text: transcript (handwritten). Recording: T 1814 1-3/4 hours, partially in French.
• Francoise Bolduc Charest, interviewed by Marcella Sorg and Steffan Duplessis
  
  1682 Francoise Bolduc Charest, interviewed by Marcella Sorg and Steffan Duplessis, February 19, 1981, Auburn, Maine. 29 pp. Tape: 1 3/4 hrs. w/ partial trans. French. Charest talks about her life as a Franco-American. Text: partial transcript. Recording: T 1803 CD 2521 1 3/4 hours French.
• Cecile Dionne, interviewed by Marcella Sorg and Steffan Duplessis
  
  1681 Cecile Dionne, interviewed by Marcella Sorg and Steffan Duplessis, February 18, 1981, Lewiston, Maine. Dionne talks about her childhood in the 1910s and 20s on a farm in Auburn, Maine; her job drawing-in at Bates Mill; working in the shoe shops; speaking French and English; and working while raising a family. Partially in French. Text: 17 pp. transcript, French sections not transcribed. Recording: T 1802 CD 2520 1-1/2 hours.
• Juliette Blais, interviewed by Steffan Duplessis and Marcella Sorg
  
  1679 Juliette Blais, interviewed by Steffan Duplessis and Marcella Sorg, March 10, 1981, Lewiston, Maine. 51 pp. Tape: 2 hrs. w/ handwritten trans. French. Blais talks about her life as a Franco-American. Text: transcript (handwritten).Recording: T 1800, CD 2518 2 hours French.
• Florida Charest, interviewed by Marcella Sorg and Steffan Duplessis
  
  1678 Florida Charest, interviewed by Marcella Sorg and Steffan Duplessis, January 29, 1981, Lewiston, Maine. 34 pp. Tape: 1 1/2 hrs. w/ handwritten trans. French. Charest talks about her life as a Franco-American. Text: transcript (handwritten). Recording: T 1799 CD 2517 1 1/2 hours French.
• Berthe Roger, interviewed by Mark Silber and Steffan Duplessis
  
  1676 Berthe Roger, interviewed by Mark Silber and Steffan Duplessis, January 29, 1981, Lewiston, Maine. Roger talks about her mother’s motivation for moving the family to Lewiston during the Great Depression; living as a Franco-American outside “Little Canada”; working in a shoe shop; and childhood family gatherings. Text: 12 pp. partial transcript. Recording: T 1797 CD 2515 1-1/2 hours.
• Genoria Pelchat, interviewed by Marcella Sorg and Stefan Duplessis
  
  1675 Genoria Pelchat, interviewed by Marcella Sorg and Stefan Duplessis, January 29, 1981, Lewiston, Maine. 10 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ partial trans. French. Pelchat talks about her life as a Franco-American. Text: partial transcript. Recording: T 1796 1 hour French.
• Albert Dumais, interviewed by Marcella Sorg and Steffan Duplessis
  
  1672 Albert Dumais, interviewed by Marcella Sorg and Steffan Duplessis, spring 1981, Lewiston, Maine. 73 pp. Tape: 3 hrs. w/ handwritten trans. French. Dumais talks about his life as a Franco-American. Text: 73 pp., transcript in French (handwritten). Recording: T 1791, T 1792 / CD 2091, CD 2104 3 hour French.
• Retired State Supreme Court Justice Armand J. Dufresne, interviewed by Marcella Sorg and Steffan Duplessis
  
  1670 Retired State Supreme Court Justice Armand J. Dufresne, interviewed by Marcella Sorg and Steffan Duplessis, May 14, 1981, Auburn, Maine. English and French. Dufrense talks about his family history; his childhood in the early 1900s; his family’s baking work; putting himself through college and law school during the Great Depression; how being Franco-American helped his career as a lawyer and justice; his many years as an active and semi-retired justice; and working with the Franco-American population in Androscoggin County. Text: 14 pp., partial transcript. Recording: T 1789 CD 2090 1-1/2 hours.
• Faye Jordan, interviewed by Marcella Sorg and Steffan Duplessis
  
  1669 Faye Jordan, interviewed by Marcella Sorg and Steffan Duplessis, February 18, 1981, Auburn, Maine. Tape: 1 1/2 hrs. w/ partial trans. Jordan talks about her life as a Franco-American; celebrating Christmas in Canada with her grandparents; running away to marry a "swamp yankee;" jobs she worked; being bilingual and speaking "true French;" sewing, making clothes for her daughter; crochet work. No notes taken from side 2. Text: 7 pp. partial transcript. Recording: T 1788, CD 2089 1-1/2 hours.
• Simone Michaud, interviewed by Marcella Sorg and Steffan Duplessis
  
  1667 Simone Michaud, interviewed by Marcella Sorg and Steffan Duplessis, February 18, 1981, Lewiston, Maine. Michaud discusses identity as an Acadian growing up in Aroostook County in the early 1900s; working at her family’s summer camps; being bilingual and when she spoke French versus English; her views on Franco-American identity; French songs; her genealogical work; how she spends her retirement; pictures of her family; her parents’ winters in Florida during the 1920s; work ethic learned from her parents; school at St. Agatha (convent) and school plays; and religion. French (partially). Text: 44 pp. transcript, does not include French sections of the interview, particularly songs. Recording: T 1786 1-1/2 hours.
• “Our Life, Our Work” Lewiston Western Older Citizens Council/Marcella Sorg and Stefan Duplessis - Finding Aid
  
  This project involved a series of bilingual interviews utilizing family albums to stimulate discussion about Franco-American culture, particularly as it pertained to work. That is, it concerned the following: how work reflected cultural values; work ethic; work/occupation patterns; how work was integrated with family life (or interfered with it); the history of work patterns in the Lewiston area, and about Franco-American culture and family life in general. We interviewed elderly persons identified by the Western Maine Older Citizens Council. The interviewers included Raymond Pelletier (professor of French at UM), Marcella Sorg, Mark Silber, and Steffan Duplessis. The products of these interviews included: (1) a filmstrip with bilingual audio tape using reproduced family photos which illustrated themes from the ethnography and excerpts from the tape-recorded interviews; and (2) a bilingual traveling photo exhibit using selected family photos and captioned with quotes (with translations).