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Online Exhibits
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From French Canadians to Franco-Americans
French Canadians who emigrated to the Lewiston-Auburn area faced discrimination as children and adults -- such as living in "Little Canada" tenements and being ridiculed for speaking French -- but also adapted to their new lives and sustained many cultural traditions.
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In the early 1600s, French explorers and colonizers in the New World quickly adopted a Native American mode of transportation to get around during the harsh winter months: the snowshoe. Most Northern societies had some form of snowshoe, but the Native Americans turned it into a highly functional item. French settlers named snowshoes "raquettes" because they resembled the tennis racket then in use.
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Music in Maine - Community and School Marching Bands
"… the Passamaquoddy Pleasant Point Indian Band; the Franco Fanfare Sainte-Cecile in Lewiston; and the Scottish Highlands Caledonian Pipe Band in…"
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Music in Maine - Music in Maine
"… reaching back 13,000 years are distinct from Franco chansons. Lumberjack work chants and sailor shanties differ from operas sung by 19th century…"
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Music in Maine - Radio Cowboys and Country Music
"… Pine” took off when he met his future spouse and Franco singer Rita Cote from Auburn in 1938. Married in 1940, Rita used the anglicized stage name…"
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Music in Maine - Community Music
"… Keeping Dance and Music Alive By Cindy Larock A “Franco-Yankee” native of Lewiston, I've been happily involved in the traditional music and dance…"
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Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Maine. Controversy aside, immigration is also America's oldest tradition, and along with religious tolerance, what our nation was built upon. Since the first people--the Wabanaki--permitted Europeans to settle in the land now known as Maine, we have been a state of immigrants.
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"We are growing to be somewhat cosmopolitan..." Waterville, 1911
Between 1870 and 1911, Waterville more than doubled in size, becoming a center of manufacturing, transportation, and the retail trade and offering a variety of entertainments for its residents.
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St-Jean-Baptiste Day -- June 24th -- in Lewiston-Auburn was a very public display of ethnic pride for nearly a century. Since about 1830, French Canadians had used St. John the Baptist's birthdate as a demonstration of French-Canadian nationalism.
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Lewiston, Maine's second largest city, was long looked upon by many as a mill town with grimy smoke stacks, crowded tenements, low-paying jobs, sleazy clubs and little by way of refinement, except for Bates College. Yet, a noted Québec historian, Robert Rumilly, described it as "the French Athens of New England."
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"MAKE Music makers include musicians, artists, and craftspeople who make instruments, write songs, and make music in the home and community settings."
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Music in Maine - Longfellow Family Music
"Longfellow Family Music “Music is the universal language of humankind.” --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Outre Mer, 1835 Henry Wadsworth…"
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Music in Maine - Country Music
"Country Music Don Doane Katahdin Mountaineers, 1925 Courtesy of Bob Greene X Don Doane Sr.’s Katahdin Mountaineers, regarded as the first…"
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Music in Maine - Military Marching Bands
"Military Marching Bands View of Portland Light Infantry Muster, ca. 1803 The Portland Light Infantry Muster with a drummer and a horn player in…"
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Music in Maine - Rock and Roll, Punk, and Elvis
"Rock and Roll, Punk, and Elvis Dave Glovsky and Louis Armstrong, Old Orchard Beach, ca. 1955Maine Historical Society Rock and Roll Concerts in…"
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"HEAR The invention of recording machines opened up a world of choices for listening to music without leaving the home."
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"Music Makers Music Makers instruments Click to see more Music Makers Music makers in Maine make instruments, create music in their…"
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Music in Maine - Music and Television
"Music and Television The Dave Astor Show Click to see more Dave Astor Show photos Dave Astor (1919-2011) produced a variety show in Portland…"
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"Sacred Music People play and sing sacred music during religious services and events. Singing allows worshipers to participate in the liturgy, with…"
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Music in Maine - Music Education
"Music Education Children's Music Click to see more Children's Music Child development educators agree music ignites the skills children need…"
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Music in Maine - Opera, Orchestras and Stages
"Opera, Orchestras and Stages Click to learn more about Maine's Opera Houses Many Maine towns in the 19th and early 20th centuries had an…"
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"PLAY Watching musicians sing and play music in public is an important communal experience for the performer and the audience."
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Music in Maine - Bluegrass Music
"Bluegrass Music BLUEGRASS MUSIC ASSOCIATION OF MAINE Click to learn more about BMAM Bluegrass music—acoustic music played on banjo, mandolin…"
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"Music stores Mary Curran Leighton and musicians, Portland, ca. 1930Maine Historical Society Hiram Chase & Son, Belfast, ca. 1895, ca."
