61 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.
• 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 (Springfield, MA, 1889/10/00-????/??/??)
  
• 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/??/??)
  
• Forestier, Le (Springfield, MA, 1910/01/17?-1910/??/??)
  
• Farceur, Le (Lowell, MA, 1887/??/??-1887/??/??)
  
• Étoile, L' (Lowell, MA, 1886/09/16-1957/08/09)
  
• Écho du Congrès, L' (Springfield, MA, 1902/04/??-1902/08/??)
  
• 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/??/??)
  
• Écho, L' (Springfield, MA, 1890/??/??-1890/??/??)
  
• Courrier du Connecticut, Le (Lowell, MA, 1892/??/??-1893/??/??)
  
• Courrier, Le (Lowell, MA, 1890/??/??-1892/??/??)
  
• Clairon, Le (Lowell, MA, 1905/??/??-1939/??/??)
  
• Citoyen Franco-Américain, Le (Springfield, MA, 1888/02/24-1914?)
  
• 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/??/??)
  
• Ami du peuple, L' (Springfield, MA, 1881/??/??-1883/??/??)
  
• Américain, L' (Springfield, MA, 1903/06/06-1903/12/??)
  
• 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
• United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America. Springfield District Council Records - Finding Aid
  
  The records of the Western Massachusetts locals and district councils of the UBCJA documents the rise of unionization among carpenters in the Connecticut River Valley since the 1880s. This collection represents a merger of separate accessions for the District Councils in Springfield (MS 110), the Pioneer Valley (MS 231), and Holyoke (MS 108), along with post-merger records for Local 108. In general, each has been maintained as a distinct series.
• Henri Gagnon and Françoise Gagnon oral history with Eloise A. Brière, August 17, 1982
  
  Oral history with the Gagnon family, part of the Franco-American community in Springfield since 1953. Topics include their participation in Franco-American activities at St. Joseph’s Church, their interest in Franco-American studies, and what nationality means to them, as people with roots in America, Canada, and France.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.