Franco-American Collection
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Posted December 22, 2012
The Winter 2012/13 issue of Le Bulletin is now available to read!
Posted October 16, 2012
Collection Coordinator James Myall appeared on Blunt Youth Radio, broadcast on WMPG, Portland, Maine's community radio station, as part of an hour-long program on Franco-Americans.
Posted October 10, 2012
Collection Coordinator James Myall testified before a State of Maine Legislative Task Force on Franco-Americans September 26, presenting statistical information on Franco-Americans gathered from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey.
Posted October 10, 2012
If you missed August 31st's successful book reading and discussion of Aurore: My Franco-American Mother with author Marguerite Roy, you can relive it through the column penned by local journalist Rachel Morin for the Lewiston Twin City Times.
Posted August 22, 2012
The Collection's new online exhibit, From French Canadians to Franco-Americans, was featured in August's edition of Making a Difference, the monthly newsletter of the University of Maine System.
Posted August 7, 2012
The Franco-American Collection has created a new online exhibit From French Canadians to Franco-Americans, funded by a grant from the Maine Historical Society.
Posted August 2, 2012
The Franco-American Collection and its coordinator, James Myall, were the subjects of a recent column by Portland Press Herald writer Juliana L'Heureux.
Posted June 25, 2012
More than 40 people gathered at the University of Southern Maine's Lewiston-Auburn College on May 19 for a song workshop led by French Canadian folk artists Benoit and Antoine Bourque.
Posted December 7, 2011
The Franco-American Heritage Center and the University of Southern Maine’s Franco-American Collection kick-started a pilot program for local schools by co-sponsoring a visit by renowned Lewiston story-teller Michael Parent to Sherwood Heights School in Auburn on November 18.
Posted December 7, 2011
The University of Southern Maine’s Franco-American Collection will be bringing its popular French-language sing-along to the d’Youville Pavilion at St Mary’s Regional Health Center, Monday December 1:30-2:30 PM.
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