Biography
Paperback, 6″ x 9″, 288 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9915427-0-3
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Tom Plant and the American Dream: A Castle in the Clouds
Written by Barry H. Rodrigue

The story of Tom Plant (1859-1941) gives us a gritty, real-life view of the American dream.  Born into a poor French-Canadian family in Bath, Maine on the eve of the Civil War, he began his career as a boy laborer, cutting ice on the Kennebec River.  Tom then became a union shoe-maker in the “shoe capital of the world”, in Massachusetts, financing his first workshop with a baseball wager.  He went on to pioneer new trends in American business and to build the world’s largest shoe factory.  An inventor, his name became front-page news in the New York Times during a fight with the most notorious monopoly in the United States.  A celebrated outdoorsman, he laid out a vast estate on the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee, as well as a retirement home for workers in his hometown.  An advocate of the progressive movement, Tom Plant spoke for a new, pragmatic America, one based on fairness in the workplace, conservation of nature, plural heritage, and global harmony.  His d’enouement was as surprising as his triumph.
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May The Wood And The Word Speak For Their Selves
​Edited by Barry H. Rodrigue

Kate Boesser: Line-Poet, Gustavus
Patrick March: Word-Poet, Gastineua Channel
Sid Othneil Morgan: Word-Poet, Juneau. A collection of words, poetry, illustrations and wood block imagery published in 1978.
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A Preliminary History of Admiralty Island 1794-1942
Written by Barry H. Rodrigue PhD

This history of Admiralty Island was assembled under contract for the U.S. Forest Service in Juneau, Alaska during the winter of 1981 and 1982. It was meant to provide a basic historical framework for Admiralty Island National Monument, which had been created by Congress in the Tongass National Forest in 1978. The study’s focus extends from the contact period between Indigenous and Euramerican peoples in 1794 to the Second World War in 1942. Since it was commissioned within a limited a budget and time frame, it therefore had a limited set of sources, largely assembled from government documents, newspapers and oral histories available in Juneau at that time

Voyages: A Maine Franco-American Reader
​Edited by Barry Rodrigue and Nelson Madore

Dozens of voices celebrate the Franco-American and Acadian experience in essays, stories, plays, poetry, songs, and art.
 They explore subjects as diverse as Quebec-Maine frontier history, immigrant drama, work, genealogy, discrimination, women, community affairs, LGBT life, religion, archeology, politics, literature, language, and humor. The voices, themselves, are equally diverse, including Norman Beaupre, Michael Michaud, Ross and Judy Paradis, Susann Pelletier, John Martin, Beatrice Craig, Michael Parent, Linda Pervier, Alaric Faulkner, Ray Levasseur, Yves Frenette, Paul Pare, Yvon Labbe, Rev. Clement Thibodeau, Bob Chenard, Denis Ledoux, Jose Vachon, Greg Chabot, Jean-Paul Poulain, Stewart Doty, Rhea Cate Robbins, Chase Hebert, Corinna Miller, and many others. This is a rich resource and an engaging read, one that will resonate with many.

​REVIEWS:  ​Yves Laberge in University Affairs
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​Histoire de Beauce-Etchemin-Amiante

Serge Courville, Pierre C. Poulin and Barry Rodrigue, Histoire de Beauce-Etchemin-Amiante, Quebec: National Institute for Research & Culture, 2003.
This volume is a comprehensive overview of a key section of the eastern borderlands of the United States and Canada. Composed by three historical geographers and including work from a dozen others, this book focuses on South-central Quebec. A traditional route of portage for thousands of years, a mission for indigenous peoples was established in the 17th century, and Europeans began farms there in the next century. The area served as a route for military forces during the colonial wars and, once peace was restored, it grew as a nexus of trade between the St. Lawrence River and the Gulf of Maine. Industry entered, as did a multi-cultural population that found work on its farms, and in its factories, mines and forests. Canadians refer to the 'Beauce miracle,' because of the area's innovation and success, but it also was a source for many of the skilled workers who built New England's Industrial Revolution. Today, in addition to its commercial enterprise, the region is a much loved tourist destination, and this volume will serve as a substantial background for understanding it.

 Southeast Alaska Folk Tradition
Alaskan History in Story and Song
​Collected and arranged by Barry Rodrigue assisted by John Ingalls and others

These albums, recorded in 1980, include retellings of colorful episodes from Alaskan history, piano rags, blues, Native songs, and more. Selections highlight the diversity of peoples and traditions that met as the region was being explored, exploited, and settled. The three-part series—”a cultural history of Southeast Alaska in music and song and conversation”―was collected and arranged by Barry Rodrigue (Roderick), assisted by John Ingalls and others. The liner notes include a detailed chronology of Alaska history, photographs, graphics, and lyrics, as well as information about each performer and track.
Listen to a sample 
"Gooch xa.sheeyée" (Lament of the Lonesome Wolf) 
Sung by Yaan Yaan eesh (Chief Olaf Abraham)
Yakutat/Antlein, Alaska 1939

"Rainforest Reel"
Sung by the Chicken Ridge Rowdies
Juneau, Alaska 1976

Southeast Alaska Folk Tradition, Vol. 1: Exploration and Discovery, 1786-1897
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Southeast Alaska Folk Tradition, Vol. 2: Stampede and Settlement, 1898-1941
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outheast Alaska Folk Tradition, Vol. 3: Too Late for the Gold, Too Early for the Oil, 1942-1981​
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Editor-in-Chief, Barry Rodrigue (Roderick)
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​August-September 1978
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​August-September 1978
Folksongs of Southeast Alaska
and the Yukon
By the People of Southeast Alaska and the Yukon
Illustrations by John Svenson ~ Preface by Governor Jay Hammond
Alaska-Nicaragua Fisheries
​Project Report 1986-1987