Category: Public Events & Celebrations, Ceremonies, Graduations
Item 81549
Sullivan High School baccalaureate service, Berwick, 1901
Contributed by: Berwick Historical Society Date: 1901 Location: Berwick Media: Photographic print
Item 98683
Alice Lucas, High School Graduation, Canton, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Dixfield Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Canton Media: Photographic print
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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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Graduations -- and schools -- in the 19th through the first decade of the 20th century often were small affairs and sometimes featured student presentations that demonstrated what they had learned. They were not necessarily held in May or June, what later became the standard "end of the school year."
