Published in January 2015.
Released this week is a book about the Franco-Americans in Lewiston-Auburn, Maine. Appropriately named The Franco-Americans of Lewiston-Auburn, this book explores the history of the community. It is written by Mary Rice-DeFosse, a professor of French and Francophone studies at Bates College, and James Myall.
The 160-page book is based on oral histories from local residents that Dr. Rice-DeFosse and her students collected as part of the department’s Franco-American Oral History Project.
The twin cities of Lewiston and Auburn have a long history of French-Canadian immigration and they still retain a very large percentage of citizens who identify as so. According to Wikipedia, in the 2000 census, almost 20 percent of the population said they spoke French.
This is the book’s description:
Franco-Americans brought their proud cultural legacy to Lewiston-Auburn beginning in the mid-nineteenth century. As their population grew, religious leaders became community leaders, building an independent parish and a support system, as well as providing child care. The Sisters of Charity cared for the sick and orphaned and ran the first bilingual school in Maine. Franco-Americans grappled with their own questions of patriotism, identity and culture, assimilating as Americans while preserving both their French and French Canadian backgrounds. Authors Mary Rice-DeFosse and James Myall explore the challenges, accomplishments and enduring bonds of the Franco-Americans in Lewiston-Auburn.
The book is published by The History Press and available on Amazon.com and elsewhere.
The common theme of defensiveness – why is it there? Well, we most assuredly know that the literati and the cognoscenti dismissed Macdonald as a hack. Prolific beyond words, he churned out novels and stories at a mind blowing pace his entire life. In the old school reference work World Authors 1950-1970 (published by H.H. Wilson) he says that when starting out as a young writer he kept thirty to forty stories in the mail at all times. What a fine example of self confidence and determination!
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