Supporters and donations: fundraising, crowdsourcing and more! -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword and forward / Kristin Langellier -- Introduction / Rhea Côté Robbins. Family/testimony = Famille/témoignage : A yard of cloth / Annie Proulx -- Mémère / Carolyna Saint Germain -- French Canadian pride / Christine Cunningham -- Mémère / Lucille (Lucie) Therrien -- Mémère, Mèmé, and me: storytelling grandmothers / Kristin M. Langellier -- Colors, Ora's birthday, salvations, mill song / Ann G. Forcier -- E. / Ann Marie Staples -- Franco-American mother-daughter relationships / Barbara Ouellette Ouellette -- En dedans de mon sang, c'est toi / Cecile Poulin -- Three generations of Franco-American women / Lisa Cote Day -- "Maddie finds the magic" from The Blue Dress, unpublished novel / Donna Hébert -- Eulogy for my beloved papa / Cori Modisette -- Lace, story, and doughnuts / Elizabeth Fuller -- The context for une âme Franco-Américaine à la France / Kim Chase and Claire Bouffard Chase -- A Franco-American soul in France (on the occasion of a brief stay in the country of her ancestors) = Une âme Franco-Américaine à la France (à l'occasion d'un bref séjour dans son ancienne patrie) / By=par Clair Bouffard Chase, translated by = traduction par Kim Chase -- Born to knit: a knitter's genealogy / Melissa MacCrae -- Bikini / Sally Bellerose -- Songs for my parents / Annette Sampon-Nicolas -- Beau Père / Sally Bellerose -- This is the forest primeval... / Susan T. Landry -- For my father, Lionel Pelletier / Susann Pelletier -- Pastoral / Susann Pelletier -- Soliloquies loosely based on Pépère's fear of falling trees / Angela Hebert -- Children / Paula J. Currie-Raymond -- When as a child you watch your parents roll pennies for groceries / Ellen LaFleche -- Things to remember, things to teach / Emily Cote -- Tombé / Jacquie Giasson Fuller -- Trouver son chemin / Jeri Theriault -- Body parts / Kim Chase -- In honor of my mother and grandmother / Sadie Kendall -- Pépère's people, Pépère's place / Lynn Plourde -- Something you have but cannot find, chapter four / Rhea Côté. Foremothers/ heroines = Aïeules/héroïnes : Lewiston woman highly regarded by Franco-Americans / Dawn Gagnon -- The archiving / Jan Hitchcock -- Do you want to know about Acadian culture? Just ask / Géraldine Chassé, Dick Harrison -- Camille Lessard-Bissonnette, author of Canuck / Janet L. Shideler -- Woman suffrage: ally or enemy for Maine's Franco-Americans, 1917-1920? A thesis, Master of Arts, History, University of Maine, May 1988 / Marian desCognets -- Margaret Chase Smith: is she or isn't she (Franco-American)? / Rhea Côté Robbins. Truth telling = Dire la vérité : Embers come in all sizes / Judy Dow -- not so much the same place / Jeanne Douillard -- The alley, light / Paula J. Currie-Raymond -- Transition / Rina Boucher Soucy -- Square one conversations / Rhea Côté Robbins. Home/house = Chez-nous/maison : Weaving French heritage through texts and textiles / Anne Sampon-Nicolas -- Chaise gabion / Celeste Roberge -- Meditation for weaving and spinning / Ellen LaFleche -- Grand ménage / Rina Boucher Soucy -- Pica / betheny chambers anderson and trudy chambers price -- Desperate for donuts / Laurie Meunier Graves -- Wet wool, from A Very Ida Christmas / Susan Poulin, writing as Ida LeClair -- Non-contestant: almost unlucky in love and Ida / Margaret S. Langford -- Art works / Judith Rose Lacadie Hill. Occupation = travail : The women who ran for public office / Georgette B. Bérubé and Lucia Cormier -- Lucia Cormier vs. Margaret Chase Smith: debate for the Maine Senate seat, November 5, 1960 / Sandra J. Sarkela -- Lucia Cormier as part of the Portland, Maine Women's History Trail -- Maine Franco-American Hall of Fame -- Maine Franco American Hall of Fame inductee Doris Belisle-Bonneau -- Maine Franco-American Hall of Fame other inductees -- Marble steps to Maine / Juliana L'Heureux -- My genealogy work / Linda Côté Dubé -- La jeune Franco-Américaine, the young Franco-American / Alberte Gastonguay. Language = Langue : Ma vie / Lisa Desjardins Michaud -- Names properly / Jeri Theriault -- Just a name / Louise Tanguay-Ricker -- Trente ans une chose speciale m'appartiens "ton nom" / Ida Bourgoin Roy -- Est-ce que le bon dieu parle français? / Brenda Mounier. New voices, lost and found stories = Nouvelles voix, histoires perdus et trouvés : "You don't say" / Cathy Plourde -- Je suis / Mary Ellms -- Being Aunt Peg / Nicole Ouellette -- Untitled / Rachel Breckinridge -- The way life should be / Sylvie Charron. Coming of age = Passage : Dirt roads and parentless days / Anne Marie Proudhomme -- Fall / Betty-Ann Khoury-Burns -- Similes pour ma tante Louise / Marie Louise St. Onge -- 150%: from Shutting Up Peggy Lee / Susan Poulin. History = Histoire : "Émigration," taken from Le Quebecois: The Virgin Forest / Doris Provencher Faucher -- Virtual time travel through census returns / Denise R. Larson -- Une femme de la terre / Donna Hébert -- One night out of Africa and daughter of the king / Pamela Morneault Gemme. Border = La frontière : Foundation myth and hope chest / Abby Paige -- The undefended border / Abby Paige -- The undefended border / Abby Paige -- The red shirt on the line / Amy Bouchard Morin -- Have guitar, will travel / Josée Vachon -- "L'été en noir" (summer in black) / Gloria Goguen Sears. Nature/seasons = Saisons : Les feuilles / Adèle Saint-Pierre -- L'eau de Pâques: an old Easter ritual / Margaret S. Langford -- "Field of sunflowers" / Gloria B. Limoges -- Breath of a raven / betheny chambers anderson and trudy chambers price -- Untitled and winter's end / Nanci Breau -- Solo, on the beach / Nanci Breau -- Photographs / Sherri Levesque Grant -- Incongruity / Sherry Pineau Brown -- Le ruisseau / Rina Boucher Soucy. Acadians-Acadiennes-Cajuns : My journey to writing a book about Acadian blankets / Elaine Larcade-Bourque -- "Film explores use of brown cotton in weavings that preserved Cajun culture" -- Acadian Archives acadiennes -- Un oeuvre d'amour...a labor of love / Lisa Desjardins Michaud -- "Acadian Village dedicates hall to first president" -- Acadia in Northern Maine / Anne Parent Roy -- Bouchard Family Farms -- The Great Escape / Caroline LeBlanc -- Reflexions / Brenda Mounier -- Tante Blanche Museum -- "Acadians of the St. John Valley" / Brenda N. Jepson -- Fouilleuse / Susan Rose April -- Aunt Norma Pauline, 1021-2003 (another history out of Acadie) / Patricia Smith Ranzoni. Spirituality = Spiritualité : Pastoral / Susann Pelletier -- Opening day: Sister Beatrice throws out the first pitch / Ellen LaFleche -- Near me / Susann Pelletier -- Hanging prayer flags the morning of the first snow / Caroline LeBlanc -- Salve Regina / Caroline LeBlanc -- Honoring the Fifth Commandment / Marie Louise St. Onge -- Soeur Louis de France, my mother and me / Marie Louise St. Onge -- The blue rosary / Cléo Paradis Ouellette. Heal/healing = Guérir/guérison/guerre : By way of Canada = de Canada / Kim Chase -- Tooth karma / Donna Hébert -- Learning mercy, learning Shoshanna / Felicity Deschenes -- "Beyond the great door" excerpt from COMICS / Lorraine Saint Pierre -- Women, War & Peace / Abigail Disney -- The hands of war / Caroline LeBlanc -- I dream of frog / Renee Violette -- "Adult mortality in preindustrial Quebec" / Claudine Lacroix et Bertrand Desjardins -- Motherhood, presentation for "representations of motherhood" course / Rhea Côté Robbins -- In self-published book, Fairfield woman tells of priest who fathered her son / Amy Calder -- It can happen to any family: how drugs took my daughter's life / Cynthia Doucette -- Army nurse already serving when Pearl Harbor bombed / Rhea Côté Robbins -- Hospital honors humble helper volunteer has traveled unique path / Renee Ordway. Creativity = La créativité : An interview with Florence Rose Martin / Mary Rice-Defosse and Patricia Hager -- Valse du temps (waltz of time) / Michèle Choinière -- The stationery aisle / Maureen Perry -- World Fiddle Day / Donna Hébert -- La vie, c'est une danse et Voltige à la Vertige / Brenda Mounier -- As i live and dream, excerpt: introduction / Gertrude M. Côté -- Marcella Bélanger Violette scrapbooks -- Aunt Clara's notebook / Clara Picher -- Excerpts from letters written to Alma R. from her friend, Theresa -- "Down by the river's edge" / Susan Gagnon -- "A place called beautiful" / Martha Pellerin Drury, Donna Hébert -- Fine art photographer / Linda Griffith -- Chasing Molly / Irene Bedard, Colin W. Sargent -- Ousted from her order, "Sister Lucy" Poulin found her own way to support needy Mainers -- Immigration as creativity: Somalis in Maine: crossing cultural currents / Mazie Hough, Kimberly A. Huisman, Kristin M. Langellier, Carol Nordstrom Toner -- Book tells of Somali experience in Maine / Abigail Curtis -- My mother's walls / Lanette Landry Petrie. Contributors to the anthology

This anthology gestures to "the more" of the stories that spin from within the conversations of Franco American women. In these pages, a Franco American woman tells a story, that is, she takes something from her experience, her own or someone else's, and makes it into the experience of the reader, the listener, the viewer. This anthology also gathers us to listen to stories that we are privileged to hear into being and becoming for our future as Franco American women

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