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Poet Steven Riel appear as part of LAC’s Franco-American Collection reading series
LEWISTON — Lewiston’s Franco-American Collection is hosting poet Steven Riel on Monday, Feb. 24. Riel is the third featured writer of the FAC’s five Meet-A-Franco-Author programs being offered free to the area’s Francophiles and lovers of fine writing in 2019-2020. Writers in the program series, Franco-America at the Interstice of Identities, explore the conjunction of […]
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First featured writer of FAC author program to share memoirs
Novelist Ernest Hébert will lead the Franco-American Collection’s first program on Sept. 23.
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Franco-American Collection to launch new reading series
FAC’s new reading series, themed “Franco-America at the Interstice of Identities”, is free and open to the public.
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New Franco L-A bus tour to hold test run
The test run tour will be held Friday, May 24, beginning at 9 a.m.
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Colby professor to give presentation on Franco-American music at USM-LAC
Colby College music professor Natalie Zelensky will discuss a project undertaken by her students to collect and preserve some of Lewiston’s most unique — and treasured — Franco-American chansons.
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Franco Collection to celebrate International Women’s Day
The theme of the March 8 discussion is “Home” and what it means.
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‘Making of Biography’ at Franco-American Collection
LEWISTON — Maine author and journalist Douglas Rooks will speak on “The Making of Biography” at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 13, at Lewiston-Auburn College’s Franco-American Collection. Rooks, author of “Statesman: George Mitchell and the Art of the Possible” and “Rise, Decline and Renewal: The Democratic Party in Maine,” is currently at work on a biography of […]
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Myall to speak on 'Lewiston's Rum War'
LEWISTON — In collaboration with the Quebec Delegation, the Franco-American Collection will present “Bootleggers, Bribes and Ballots: Stories from Lewiston’s Rum War” from 4 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, April 17, at the University of Southern Maine Lewiston-Auburn College, Room 170, 51 Westminster St. Maine was the first state to adopt prohibition. From the 1850s through […]
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Les Troubadours to lead French sing-along
LEWISTON — Community members are invited to join Les Troubadours for a French sing-along at 1:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 16, in room 170 at the University of Southern Maine’s Lewiston-Auburn College. Song books will be provided. The event is sponsored by the Franco-American Collection at USM-LAC. Admission is free to all. More information is available […]