Jan
24
2008
This portion of the Audio Story delves into the rich cultural life of the valley, including its language, idioms, pronunciation, music, and the traditional arts. The region’s French heritage is manifest in interviews with artists and folklorists, as well as traditional singing and instrumental music. Agriculture and cuisine also make an appearance in this excerpt. At right: view of the St. John River from Edmundston, NB toward Frenchville, ME, courtesy Daniel Picard.
This recording is excerpted from the Voici the Valley Cultureway Audio Story. We welcome your feedback on this Voici the Valley podcast.
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| tags: Acadian, cultural tourism, culture, Francophone, French, New Brunswick, St. John Valley
| posted in Franco-American, History, Maine Places
Nov
16
2007
Bill Roorbach has written about a very personal part of Maine. Temple Stream (Dell, 2005) considers the stream that borders the fields below his house in Farmington; it won the nonfiction Maine Literary Award. His stories and novels deal with equally real and natural people. And he produces “teacherly tomes” on memoirs, essays, and Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: The Art of Truth (Oxford University Press, 2001).
This interview with Bill Roorbach by Charlotte Albright was included in the Council’s 30th Anniversary ‘Maine Writers Speak’ project. Please feel free to leave your feedback below.
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| tags: Bill Roorbach, interview, MPBN
| posted in Literature, Maine Places, Maine Writers, Nonfiction
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