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The City With A Bathtub Ring: A Century Of Shared Industrial Identity In Belfast, Maine, Michael Munson
The City With A Bathtub Ring: A Century Of Shared Industrial Identity In Belfast, Maine, Michael Munson
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Belfast, Maine, is a small, visitor-friendly city of approximately 6,700 residents located on that state’s picturesque mid-coast. Founded by Ulster Scots descendants in 1770, Belfast’s rich history has allowed its sense of place to evolve as the community’s identity changed from a frontier settlement to a commercial seaport, then an industrial city, and currently a host city for several prominent customer call centers. While now charming, increasingly gentrified and popular with tourists, the city earlier prospered for more than a century as a blue-collar industrial community, which eschewed tourism well into the 1980s. This paper addresses Belfast’s sense of place …
Le Forum, Vol. 43 #4, Lisa Desjardins Michaud Rédactrice, Cecile Bossé Dechaine, Virginia L. Sand, Gerard Coulombe, Patrick Lacroix, Abigail Curtis, James Myall, Juliana L'Heureux, Sue Smith Deschaine, Chip Bergeron, Megan St. Marie, Janet Hudgins, Suzanne Beebe, Warren Perrin, Frances Dumond Levasseur, Barbara Huck, Dianne Marshall, Sandra Goodwin, Margaret Langford, Don Levesque
Le Forum, Vol. 43 #4, Lisa Desjardins Michaud Rédactrice, Cecile Bossé Dechaine, Virginia L. Sand, Gerard Coulombe, Patrick Lacroix, Abigail Curtis, James Myall, Juliana L'Heureux, Sue Smith Deschaine, Chip Bergeron, Megan St. Marie, Janet Hudgins, Suzanne Beebe, Warren Perrin, Frances Dumond Levasseur, Barbara Huck, Dianne Marshall, Sandra Goodwin, Margaret Langford, Don Levesque
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