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Item 18865

Theater program, 'Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme,' Lewiston, 1978

Contributed by: Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries Date: 1978-04-08 Location: Lewiston Media: Ink printed on paper

Item 29373

Pierre Painchaud as 'The Mad Miser,' Biddeford, ca. 1899

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1899 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print

Item 18882

St. Dominic High School theater production, Lewiston, 1978

Contributed by: Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries Date: 1978-04-08 Location: Lewiston Media: Photographic print

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Le Théâtre

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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Lillian Nordica: Farmington Diva

Lillian Norton, known as Nordica, was one of the best known sopranos in America and the world at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. She was a native of Farmington.

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400 years of New Mainers

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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Shaw & Clark Sewing Machine, Biddeford, ca. 1865

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - Artists and Inventors of Biddeford

"Whether it was portraying a "Mad Miser" in the theater, rallying patriotic fervor with World War I artwork, or inventing new technology to keep a…"