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• University of Connecticut, Peoples of Connecticut Project Records - Finding Aid
  
  The "Peoples of Connecticut" Project was begun in 1974 under a grant from the Ethnic Heritage program, Office of Education, Department of Health, Education and Welfare. The goal of this program was to increase awareness, within Connecticut secondary schools, of different ethnic groups. Using curriculum guides and other instructional materials, the project endeavored to provide teaching and learning tools for discovering the cultural diversity of Connecticut's residents./n The collection contains a wide variety of materials more specifically detailed in the series descriptions. All aspects of the project are documented in the collection from the working papers of the grant to the published curriculum guides and bibliographies. Reference and resource materials pertinent to the ethnic groups represented by Connecticut's residents are included in Series IV-VII. The collection also includes some general reference materials pertaining to these ethnic groups in the United States, as well./n Series IX-XI include similar information to that found in Series I-III. The later series appears to be materials added at a later date and not integrated into the processed collection.
• The Annie Proulx Papers - Finding Aid
  
  The archive comprises material related to the publication of four short-story collections written and/ or composed by Proulx during this period, as well as uncollected short stories; material related to the composition and publication of four novels published between 1992 and 2002; material related to the composition of nonfiction articles, essays, and books, including freelance magazine work done by Proulx in the 1980’s and several “how-to” gardening and cooking publications; four academic theses completed by Proulx while she was a history student at the University of Vermont and George Williams University; a holograph journal begun by Proulx on 1976, and concluded on March 18, 1977, while she was living in the North Kingdom of Vermont (restricted until after the death of the author); book reviews, public remarks, interviews, book proposals, and a small section of poetry written by Annie Proulx. The archive also includes some born-digital drafts of works and correspondence, and her sketchbooks and watercolors of landscapes and people.\n Also contains Proulx’s extensive research files, which include maps and guides organized by region, project files with articles organized by subject, and hundreds of research photographs, many organized by place. Other photographs in the archive include portraits of Annie Proulx, photographs of literary events, and photographs from Proulx’s childhood and of family and friends.\n Also includes a large collection of artwork by Proulx’s mother, painter and amateur naturalist Lois Nellie Gill Proulx, and her estate papers, as well as a collection of genealogical and property records retained by Proulx.\n The archive is rich in both incoming and outgoing correspondence, and includes letters to and from writers and friends; agents and publishers; translators, and readers. In many cases, Proulx retained copies of her outgoing personal and business letters. Correspondence from fans of “Brokeback Mountain” is restricted for the life of the author, as is Proulx’s Vermont journal.
• Courser family papers
  
  Several letters written to Vida Courser Achilles by various family members, including her mother, aunt, sister and father. Her mother's letters are undated, written while she is in Dunkin, Québec. She writes mainly of her health, asking for remedies. There is a also brief note written to her granddaughter, Zerella. Aunt Lilla, in a letter, dated May 13, 1921, also writes of health issues and describes the death of her mother. Grace (Courser) Hawley in a letter dated July 27, 1922 writes of preparations for an imminent strike in Montréal. There is an extremely brief letter from Vida's father, Verdine Courser, dated May 18, 1928, about finding work in Waterville, Vermont.