Keywords: downtown Auburn
Item 7056
Auburn Theater on Court Street 1928
Contributed by: Lewiston Public Library Date: 1928 Location: Auburn Media: Phototransparency
Item 9670
Bates Mill Fabric Outlet Sign, Lewiston, ca. 1980
Contributed by: Lewiston Public Library Date: circa 1980 Location: Lewiston Media: Phototransparency
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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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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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Franco-American Heritage Center at St. Mary's
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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