Biography
Paperback, 6″ x 9″, 288 pages ISBN: 978-0-9915427-0-3 $20.00 |
Tom Plant and the American Dream: A Castle in the Clouds
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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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A Preliminary History of Admiralty Island 1794-1942
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Voyages: A Maine Franco-American Reader
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Histoire de Beauce-Etchemin-AmianteSerge 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.
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Southeast Alaska Folk Tradition
Alaskan History in Story and Song
Collected and arranged by Barry Rodrigue assisted by John Ingalls and others
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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.
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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 |
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Editor-in-Chief, Barry Rodrigue (Roderick)
Editor-in-Chief, Barry Rodrigue (Roderick)
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
and the Yukon
By the People of Southeast Alaska and the Yukon
Illustrations by John Svenson ~ Preface by Governor Jay Hammond
