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Letter From Donald W. Webber Of The State Of Maine Supreme Judicial Court To Charlotte Michaud, State Of Maine Supreme Judicial Court

Correspondence 1970-1973

October 19,1970: Letter from Donald W. Webber, Associate Justice of the State of Maine Supreme Judicial Court, to Charlotte Michaud.

Letter From Camille L. Bissonnette To Charlotte Michaud, Camille L. Bissonnette

Correspondence 1970-1973

Handwritten letter from Camille Lessard Bissonnette to Charlotte Michaud. Also included: Envelope front and envelope back.

Letter To Louis-Philippe Gagne From Charlotte Michaud, Charlotte Michaud

Correspondence 1970-1973

June 27, 1970, letter from Charlotte Michaud to Louis-Philippe Gagne recounting the week's work and plans for her and her team's current article.

Maurice Gagnon Photograph, Franco-American Collection

Franco-American Music Traditions Exhibit

Ethnomusicologist Bau Graves has written about Maurice Gagnon (1927-1973): “Maurice Gagnon is remembered as a dynamic performer by those who him play. At the age of ten, he was already an ace harmonica player and could attract an audience and earn money playing in clubs. He played a repertoire of jigs and reels and also composed a number of tunes some of which he recorded as 45’s and one LP album. These recordings, released between 1964 and 1970, are a historical scarcity: only a relative handful of disks of traditional Maine Franco-American music have ever been available to the public.”

The Mountain Dews Photograph, Franco-American Collection

Franco-American Music Traditions Exhibit

Chuck Frechette, Bill Beauchesne, and Marcel Larrivee [L to R] have performed together since 1965. They began playing for Le Club Musicale Literaire, and after adding more members, became The Mountain Dews. Their repertoire includes western and bluegrass music. Bill first heard a bass washtub on the Ted Mack Amateur Radio Hour. He figured out how to make one and how to play it. Bill was 12 when he got together with a group of neighborhood friends playing guitar, harmonica, and washboard. Their gigs included bean suppers in church basements. Other members of the Mountain Dews have been Roland Boileau, …

150 Years Of Education In Maine, Kermit S. Nickerson

Maine Collection

150 Years of Education in Maine

Kermit S. Nickerson, Deputy Commissioner of Education

State of Maine, Department of Education, Augusta, 1970.

Sesqui-Centennial History of Maine's Educational System and the Growth and Development of the Maine State Department of Education.

Contents: Foreword / 150 Years / Part I - Education in Maine Prior to 1900 / Part II - Development of the State Department of Education