53 resources

• [Lowell Mills]
  
  Lowell (Ma.) talk with Irene Simoneau, Franco-American historian and authority on the role of women in the mills. Professor Roger Paradis of Fort Kent (Me). talks about Franco-American folklore and music.
• [Festivals]
  
  The Lewiston Franco-American Festival. The Lowell (Ma.) ethnic Festival. The second annual Old Town (Me.) Franco-American Festival featuring storytelling by Bill Gangon [sic], music by Simon St. Pierre, a wood-chopping contest and an interview with a retired woodcutter from 'French Island' in Old Town. Ray Pelletier talks to two teachers about Franco-American studies in Waterville (Me.) . An overview of the arts and crafts fair in Manchester (NH).
• Bon Soir Mes Amis
  
  Film about the music of Lionel 'Toots' Bouthot, keyboard and guitar player, and Ben Guillemette, fiddler. Franco-American musicians from Maine, includes footage of dances and festivals. They talk about their cultural background, how they came to play music, and about their partnership, which breaks up during the shooting of the film. Includes French and English language singing, line dancing with senior citizens in a community center, square dancing in a gym, the Lowell, Mass., folk festival, La Kermesse Franco-Americaine in Biddeford, Me., and the Festival of American Folklife in Washington, D.C.
• Du Mais Family Collection - Finding Aid
  
  Collection contains [Du Mais--home movies] with a mix of family events such as vacations, holiday rituals, and sporting activities. It also captures regional subjects such as Colby College’s Mayflower Hill campus when it opened, construction activities from the early 1950s, parades, fires, summer camps in Maine, herring catches in the Sheepscot River, travel footage from Guatemala in 1954, New York City scenes, and amateur footage of the Mayo Clinic.
• Vie, La (Lowell, MA, 1892/05/??-????/??/??)
  
• Vérité, La (Lowell, MA, 1910/08/15-1910/11/19)
  
• Union, L' (Lowell, MA, 1889/03/01-1890/04/??)
  
• Supplément du Bulletin Paroissial Franco-Américain de Lowell, Mass. (Lowell, MA, 1911/00/00-1916/??/??)
  
• Soleil, Le (Lowell, MA, 1888/10/??-1888/11?)
  
• Sentinelle, La (Lowell, MA, 1879/??/??-1880/01/??)
  
• Revue, La (Lowell, MA, 1902/08/07?-1906/??/??)
  
• Réveil, Le (Lowell, MA, 1908/09/14-1908/10?)
  
• République, La (Lowell, MA, 1901/03/21-1902?)
  
• République, La (Lowell, MA, 1876?-1876?)
  
• Petite Revue, La (Lowell, MA, 1910/??/??-1913/??/??)
  
• Petit Journal, Le (Lowell, MA, 1898/11/27-????/??/??)
  
• Patriote, Le (Lowell, MA, 1910/01/04-1910/01/15)
  
• National, Le (Lowell, MA, 1890/06/13-1895/10/04)
  
• Journal du dimanche, Le (Lowell, MA, 1890/04/??-1893/??/??)
  
• Journal du commerce, Le (Lowell, MA, 1884/04/??-1885/04/??)
  
• Journal de Lowell, Le (Lowell, MA, 1975/02/00-1995/12/00)
  
• Journal de la Société Médico-Chirurgicale canadienne-française de la Nouvelle-Angleterre, Le (Lowell, MA, 1891/00/00-1891/00/00)
  
• Journal, Le (Lowell, MA, 1916/04/02-1916/06/25?)
  
• Indépendance, L' (Lowell, MA, 1890/04/04-1890/09/19?)
  
• Gazette, La (Lowell, MA, 1886/??/??-1887/01?)
  
• Franco-Américain, Le (Lowell, MA, 1906/12/16?-1907/??/??)
  
• Farceur, Le (Lowell, MA, 1887/??/??-1887/??/??)
  
• Étoile, L' (Lowell, MA, 1886/09/16-1957/08/09)
  
• Écho du Canada, L' (Lowell, MA, 1875/01/02-1875/11/06)
  
• Écho du Canada, L' (Boston [Fall River; Lowell], MA, 1875/01/02-1875/06/05)
  
• Écho de la CMAC [Corporation des membres de l'Association catholique de Lowell, Massachusetts], L' (Lowell, MA, 1953/??/??-1969/??/??)
  
• Courrier du Connecticut, Le (Lowell, MA, 1892/??/??-1893/??/??)
  
• Courrier, Le (Lowell, MA, 1890/??/??-1892/??/??)
  
• Clairon, Le (Lowell, MA, 1905/??/??-1939/??/??)
  
• Citoyen, Le (Lowell, MA, 1936/??/??-????/??/??)
  
• Bulletin paroissial franco-américain, Le (Lowell, MA, 1910/10/00-1948?)
  
• Bien public, Le (Lowell, MA, 1888/04/17-1888/05/01)
  
• B'lette, La (Lowell, MA, 1909/01/14-1910/05/27)
  
• Artisan Canadien, L' (Lowell, MA, 1880/11/11-1881/??/??)
  
• Apostolat, L' (Lowell, MA, 1935/??/??-1953/??/??)
  
• Annales historiques, Les (Lowell, MA, 1892/06/15-1892/??/??)
  
• Abeille, L' (Lowell, MA, 1880/??/??-1884/??/??)
  
• LeMay, Gerald J. [CT Credit Union League]
  
  Gerald J. LeMay, Senior Consultant, Connecticut Credit Union League, 1964-1982; Vice-Pres., Board of Directors, Watertown Community Federal Credit Union, Watertown, Connecticut; Connecticut Credit Union League; Interview by Michael Chaney, June 28, 1984
• Phaneuf, Alda [Peoples French Canadian]
  
  Interview with Mrs. Alda Phaneuf, at the University of Connecticut for the Ethnic Heritage Project, April 9, 1975, by Holly Izard.
• Lowell Folklife Project collection - Finding Aid
  
  This year-long study conducted by the American Folklife Center yielded an ethnographic collection consisting of 196 hours of sound recordings covering a wide range of subjects and activities, including oral history interviews, religious services, musical events, parades and religious processions, ethnic festivals, ethnic restaurants, and neighborhood tours. An additional 23 hours of sound recordings of musical events and oral history interviews were copied from originals lent by Lowell residents. Collection materials also include correspondence; field notes; questionnaires; neighborhood maps; reports; publications; administrative files; interview transcripts; black-and-white photographic prints, contact sheets, and film negatives (ca. 10,000 images); and color slides and prints, (ca. 3,500 images) which documented community life in Lowell, Massachusetts from 1987 to 1988.
• [French Canadian Textile Worker]
  
• Rev. Richard Santerre Collection - Finding Aid
  
  Finding aid of the Rev. Richard Santerre Collection
• Eloise A. Brière Franco-American Oral History Collection - Finding Aid
  
  The interviews in this collection, conducted mostly in French between August 8, 1982 and Jan. 18, 1983, document the lives and experiences of forty-four Franco-American residents of Massachusetts, concentrated in the areas around Easthampton and Lowell. Transcripts are available for five interviews: Paul Racine, Paul Morrisette, Mme. Dauphinais, Eugène St. Pierre, and Vivianne Potvin.
• Richard Santerre Franco-American Collection - Finding Aid
  
  With book titles in both French and English, the Santerre Collection deals with the wide range of Franco-American experience in New England, touching on topics from literature and the arts to religion, benevolent societies, language, the process of assimilation, biography, and history. The collection includes several uncommon imprints regarding French American communities in Lowell, Lawrence, New Bedford, and Worcester, Mass., as well as in Maine, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island, and it includes publications of associations such as the Ralliement Français en Amérique, the Association Canado-Americain, and the Alliance Française de Lowell.
• Club Richelieu-Fall River records - Finding Aid
  
  Collection includes statutes and by-laws, minutes, administrative records, correspondence, financial records and receipts, scholarship records, publications, records of programs and events, and artifacts and ephemera.
• Pepin, W. Reid , June 10, 2005
  
  Growing up in Lowell, Massachusetts; Applying to Bates; Bates in the early fifties; The Outing Club; The Appalachian Trail; Memorable professors; Cultural Heritage; Sadie Hawkins Day; Mayoralty; Bow and arrow Story; Outing Club Advances; Coed Work Trip #1; Coed Work Trip #2; Batesies marrying Batesies; Chuck Phillips; The Bates Spirit; Water skiing story; Hearse story; Ladies hunting story.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Norman Paul Gauvreau
  
  Interview includes discussions of: Lewiston political history; environmental protection work; Anti-Vietnam War movement; Democratic Convention of 1968; Civil Rights movement in Maine; Maine politicians; “English Only” Bill; Maine Commission on Legal Needs; and Muskie’s environmental work.
• Jack Kerouac Papers - Finding Aid
  
  The Jack Kerouac Archive spans the years 1920 to 1977, with the bulk dated 1935 to 1969. The collection chiefly consists of holograph and typescript drafts of Kerouac's novels, stories, poetry, plays and screenplays, journals, diaries, notebooks, autobiographical and spiritual prose, fantasy horseracing, and fantasy baseball game. Other materials include Jack Kerouac's artwork, incoming and outgoing correspondence, photographs, personal and financial papers (including bank statements and canceled checks), publishing contracts, newspaper cuttings, maps, and realia.