Maine Memory Network

Franco-American Collection

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Music in Maine - Community and School Marching Bands

"… in 1907, at a time when preserving the French language in oral and written forms was important for passing cultural traditions to the next…"

Music in Maine - Community Music

"… designated me a Master Artist in traditional French Canadian dance, providing the chance to pass the French dance traditions down to numerous…"

Music in Maine - MAKE

"… recorded the oral histories and songs in Wabanaki languages including Abenaki, Passamaquoddy/Maliseet, Penobscot, and Mi’kmaq languages."

Music in Maine - HEAR

"… Passamaquoddy peoples singing and speaking their language into the bell, etching them on cylinders made of ceresin, beeswax, and stearic wax."

Music in Maine - Music Education

"Music helps the body and the mind work together, and musical experiences in childhood can accelerate brain development, especially in language…"

Music in Maine - Longfellow Family Music

"Longfellow Family Music “Music is the universal language of humankind.” --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Outre Mer, 1835 Henry Wadsworth…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Passamaquoddy Hereditary Chief Francis Joseph Neptune

"Croix River. In the Passamaquoddy language the river was known as the Skutik River. Several testimonies were given about the location of the true St."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… for example, has maintained their Maliseet language so that this region is known as the only place on earth where the Maliseet language is spoken…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Industry

"The language and customs of three countries—Sweden, France and England—were subsequently all absorbed into the community."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The History of Stockholm

"Stockholm was a tri–cultural town with languages and customs of three countries: Sweden, France, and England."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - National Blue Ribbon School

"… for low socio-economic status; Offer a foreign language to at least eighth graders - - Strong offers modern French to grades K-8; Enjoy a 95…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 5 of 5

"… region, and as Wabanaki political and language activism demonstrates in 2022, Native peoples remain fundamentally invested in their sovereignty and…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 3 of 5

"… treaties gradually tried to make sense of its language starting with the Jay Treaty (1794). This authorized the St."

Acadian Archives

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Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Longfellow Era: 1807-1901

"… where he taught at Harvard, directed the Modern Language program there, and wrote poetry. His first wife had died of a miscarriage and in 1843 he…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… means “pollock plenty place” in the tribal language. Colonel John Allan's cenotaph, Treat's Island, 1970Lubec Memorial Library Later settlers…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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