42 resources

• Charivari, Le (Champlain, NY, 1869/??/??-1869/??/??)
  
• Oral history interview with Michelle Holzapfel, 2008 January 26 and March 1
  
  An interview of Michelle Holzapfel conducted 2008 January 26-March 1, by Josephine Shea, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, at Holzapfel's home and studio, Applewoods Studio and Gallery, in Marlboro, Vermont. Holzapfel speaks of her childhood in Rhode Island; her large extended family and their French-Canadian heritage; working with her father in his machine shop; early art education and exposure from elementary school through high school; the influence of high school art teacher Audrey Blake; trips to Rhode Island School of Design Museum and Boston Museum of Fine Arts; attending Marlboro College; meeting her husband, David, at Marlboro; traveling in Italy with friends and David; earning her B.A. from Norwich College; participating in craft shows; having two children in two years; teaching experiences at Worcester Center for Crafts and Wood Turning Center; the difference in relationships with galleries and museums; the woodturning field; and the struggles and success of women artists; and plans for the future. Holzapfel recalls Gilbert Taylor, Barry Friedman, Glenn Adamson, Nathan Ancell, Peter Joseph, Kenneth Trapp, Chris Tyler, Albert LeCoff, and others.
• Letter, 1926 June 14
  
  Letter from Aimée-Rose Harpin, to Antoinette Sansoucy.
• Map of Southern Ontario and Quebec: Showing Natural Resources and Roads 1925
  
  Map designed to highlight the roads of southern Ontario and Quebec
• Carte de la partie septentrionale des États Unis : comprenant le Canada 1797
  
  Geological Map of Maine
• Annie Proulx correspondence with Joel Connaroe - Finding Aid
  
  Comprises typescript, manuscript, email and post-card correspondence between author Annie Proulx and Joel Connaroe, author of books and essays about American poetry and fiction, editor of Six American Poets, and president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation from 1985 to 2002 ; with 143 color photographs.
• Napoleon Babbie Sr.
  
  Portrait photograph of Napoleon Babbie Sr., a Franco-American farmer who married four times.
• George Mayo and his Wife
  
  Photograph of George Mayo and his wife in a decorative frame.
• Sunday Apron with Small Flowers
  
  White apron with small pink and blue flowers, worn on Sundays only, by Nellie LaValley, grandmother of Audrey Falcon. Worn at home in Champlain, NY near the Canadian border.
• Apron
  
  White apron with small pink and blue flowers, worn on Sundays only, by Nellie LaValley, grandmother of Audrey Falcon. Worn at home in Champlain, NY near the Canadian border.
• Sunday Apron with Large Flowers
  
  White apron with large pink flowers with blue stems, worn on Sundays only, by Nellie LaValley, grandmother of Audrey Falcon. Worn at home in Champlain, NY near the Canadian border.
• Everyday Apron
  
  White apron with black dot pattern, worn everyday except Sunday by Nellie LaValley, grandmother of Audrey Falcon. Worn at home in Champlain, NY near the Canadian border.
• LaValley Family
  
  Photograph of LaValley family members mounted in an ornate beadwork frame.
• LaValley Sisters in 1906
  
  Photograph of the LaValley sisters mounted in an ornate beadwork frame. The year 1906 appears at the bottom of the frame.
• Yvonne Buhrle Strumpf Skiing
  
  Photograph of Yvonne Buhrle Strumpf (1911-2003) skiing, probably in Vermont or New York. Yvonne was born in France in 1911 to a French mother and a Swiss/German father. Yvonne spent time in a refugee camp during World War I due to her Swiss/German heritage. Yvonne emigrated to the United States in 1929.
• LaValley Family Farm in Champlain, N.Y.
  
  Front row: Cyrille and Bertha (LaValley) Babbie; Back row: Nellie LaValley, brother George, a child, and Abraham LaValley, Jr. on family farm on Glass Road in Champlain, N.Y.
• Caroline (Durant) LaValley and Abraham LaValley, Sr.
  
  Caroline and Abraham LaValley, Sr. were Rita Rae Laurin's great-grandparents. Caroline died in 1929. The photo was taken at the family farm on Glass Road in Champlain, NY, near the Canadian border.
• Wooden Washer
  
  Wooden washer is part of a bedroom set made in Randolph, Vermont by the Salisbury Bros. Furniture Co. for a Franco-American wedding gift of furniture for the first home of Edward (Ned) and Josephine LaTant.
• Dresser with Oval Mirror
  
  Wooden dresser with oval mirror and four drawers, part of a bedroom set made in Randolph, Vermont by the Salisbury Bros. Furniture Co. for a Franco-American wedding gift of furniture for the first home of Edward (Ned) and Josephine LaTant.
• Chest of Drawers with Square Mirror
  
  Wooden chest of drawers, part of a bedroom set made in Randolph, Vermont by the Salisbury Bros. Furniture Co. for a Franco-American wedding gift of furniture for the first home of Edward (Ned) and Josephine LaTant.
• Dining Table and Chairs
  
  Dining room set used by Leon and Lucine LaTant, grandparents of Heather Aragona.
• Five Drawer Dresser
  
  Dresser is part of a bedroom set made in Randolph, Vermont by the Salisbury Bros. Furniture Co. for a Franco-American wedding gift of furniture for the first home of Edward (Ned) and Josephine LaTant.
• Wedding Coverlet
  
  Decorative wedding blanket with design of Mary and baby Jesus in center; floral design, including lilies, around Jesus and Mary; stars surrounding the outside.
• Bed
  
  Bed with headborad and footboard made in Randolph, Vermont by the Salisbury Bros. Furniture Co. for a Franco-American wedding gift of furniture for the first home of Edward (Ned) and Josephine LaTant.
• Five Drawer Dresser
  
  Five drawer dresser made in Randolph, Vermont by the Salisbury Bros. Furniture Co. for a Franco-American wedding gift of furniture for the first home of Edward (Ned) and Josephine LaTant.
• Lunch Pail
  
  Metal pail used by Cyrille Babbie in Champlain, NY to carry his lunch to school.
• Honeycomb Dish
  
  Honeycomb dish used in the Champlain, NY home of Abraham LaValley, Jr. and wife Nellie LaValley, grandparents of Audrey Falcon.
• Tablecloth Used by Nellie LaValley at the Family Home in Champlain, NY
  
  White Tablecloth with floral border used by a Franco-American family.
• Waiting for Your Return Portrait Postcard
  
  Postcard with a portrait of an unknown woman, staring directly at the camera, waiting for your return. Trees and a fence appear in the background.
• Postcard of Chazy Rural School in Chazy, NY
  
  Black & white photograph postcard of the Chazy Rural School
• Greetings from Champlain, N.Y.
  
  Postcard of a color illustrated scenic road in Champlain, New York
• Easter Greetings Postcard
  
  Embossed Easter postcard with color illustrations of flowers, a church, and a cross.
• Easter Postcard with Poem
  
  Postcard illustrated in color with a child in an Easter dress and a poem.
• Happy Birthday Postcard
  
  A Happy Birthday postcard with pink ribbons around an illustrated purple flower arrangement.
• Je Me Souviens...I Remember: Presenting and Preserving the Heritage of Upstate New York's Franco-American Communities - [Overview]
  
  The Je me souviens…I remember Collection includes images of artifacts generally owned by Franco-Americans and shared with Siena College for the purposes of historic preservation and broader education. This collection was made possible by a National Endowment for the Humanities Common Heritage grant.
• Traditional French-Canadian music [video recording]
  
  This DVD presents a wide variety of music, both vocal and instrumental, as played on a variety of instruments. It presents the French-Canadian folk music of the last part of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century as it was performed at that time. It is an attempt to capture those songs before the old folks who remember the songs and the way they were performed are gone from us.
• Vermont-New Hampshire Labor History Society survey papers
  
  The Vermont-New Hampshire Labor History Society survey project sought to create a comprehensive listing of all Vermont's labor-related materials - books, periodicals, manuscripts, newspapers, oral histories, scrap books, maps, broadsides, court documents, union and state records, photographs and films, artifacts and equipment, and more - in all Vermont repositories, including public libraries, college libraries, historical town clerks' offices, museums, churches, private collections, and others.
• 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.
• Lake Champlain Quadricentennia​l Commission records
  
  This collection documents of activities of the Vermont Lake Champlain Quadricentennia​l Commission during the period 2004-2009. It contains a binder with minutes of the Commission and committees, as well as sample fundraising and marketing materials and two CDs containing digital copies of the same material. The collection also includes four folders containing Commission marketing materials in English and French, one folder containing two Commission-​supported publishing projects, and two folders with publicity material for events outside the state.
• Jessie Lafountain Bigwood papers
  
  The papers consist of Jessie Lafountain Bigwood's letters to family members from 1931 to 1953, photographs, and her step-sister's correspondence in regard to Bigwood's estate. In a group of 1931 to 1940 letters that Bigwood wrote to her teenage niece Helen Phipard, Bigwood encouraged Helen to study for a profession. With each letter she enclosed a column, "Training for Life's Work, " from an unnamed Ontario newspaper. Bigwood wrote to her step-sister, Cora Gebo Munsell, in South Royalton during the last months of her life. Bigwood, a widow, lived in a modest Toronto apartment, and supplemented her pension working as a nurse's aid. After Bigwood's death in September 1953, her niece, Marguerite Bigwood Rogers, wrote a series of letters from Toronto to Cora Munsell. Bigwood died intestate; Marguerite was administrator of her estate and Cora Munsell was one of the heirs. The papers include photocopies of the Vermont Bar Association Proceedings, August 1903, and Vermont Bar Journal, December 1980 and April 1988, that have articles about Bigwood's early professional achievements. The papers also include a photocopy of an April 30, 1904, article from Burlington Clipper, on which the previous articles are based.
• The Guillemet family 2008 [electronic resource] : Guillemet research
  
  Contents: The Guillemette family : Nicolas Guillemette, pioneer of New-France and ancestor of the Guilmet, Guilemette, Guillemet, Guillemette families in Quebec, Canada, and their descendants in North America / Richard A. Guilmette (2008) (794 p.) -- Census files information, 1840-1930 -- Listings from city directories (CA, CT, HI, LA, MA, ME, MI, MN, NH, NJ, NY, RI, TX, VT) -- Massachusetts vital statistics information -- Maine marriage information -- Missing list -- "L'entre-​Guilmets" newsletter, v. 1 (1993) - v. 52 (2009) -- Social Security deaths, 1937 thru Jan. 2008 (various states) -- Draft registration list, World War I.
• Dedication of a monument to solidify the friendship between the Province of Québec and the State of Vermont [sound recording]. Sponsored by the International Kiwanis Club.
  
  Speeches in French and English ; speakers include Gov. George D. Aiken and Vermont Attorney General Lawrence Jones.