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Series 3: Graphic materials (continued)
Black-and-white negatives (continued)
Fournier-Chasse House and Fred Albert House, and other vernacular buildings, near Madawaska, Maine; Log blockhouse, Fort Kent, Maine, June 25, 1991 (continued)
Digital content available: afc1991029_hm_b004_61319
36 35 mm black-and-white film negatives
1-2, views Fournier-Chasse House, a piece-surpiece Acadian house that has been considerably remodelled (adding brick veneer siding) and expanded by additions; St. David community (adjacent to Madawaska), US 1; 3-5, Ray Brassieur (l.) and Dave Whitman ponder their fieldnotes in front of the house; 6-14, views of the house and in #7 of the St. John River just below it; 15-17, Mr. and Mrs. Ernie Chasse; 18-21, details inside the house; Mrs. Chasse in #21; 22-23, views of the house; 24, view of Fred Albert House, adjacent to Fournier-Chasse House; 25, vernacular houses across US 1 from FournierChasse House, St. David; 26-27, store at St. David, US 1; 28-31, vernacular houses and buildings along US 1 between Madawaska on Ft. Kent; 32-36, Fort Kent, 1839-1840 log blockhouse at confluence of St. John River and Fish River in Ft. Kent.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: HM-B005-61324 Maison Daigle St. Jean, a piece-sur-piece en colombage Acadian cottage reconstructed on a museum site in Clair, New Brunswick (across the Saint John River from Fort Kent, Maine), June 26, 1991
Photographer: Howard W. Marshall
Digital content available: afc1991029_hm_b005_61324
36 35 mm black-and-white film negatives
1-6, views of the Maison Daigle, a fine Acadian house; behind it the museum staff have recreated a traditional granae Acadien (Acadian barn) from scratch; this is a public museum where visitors pay small admission charge and get guided tours; important collection of artifacts of all kinds are here; 7-8, views of the new / recreated Acadian barn (a three-bay frame barn); 9-11, views of interior of the house; niche for holding religious statues in #9; 12, attic of the house; 13-15, ship's knees (braces) in the attic / loft; 16-17, the niche in the kitchen / dining area on the first floor; 18-20, views of the kitchen / dining area; note the cutout wall section to allow for circulation of heat from the cast iron stove; 21-23, views of the columns in the front parlor; corner columns are boxed grooved columns (that within the walling receive the horizontal madriers that constitute the bearing walls of piece-sur-oiece; 24-25, views of the rear of the house and the new barn 2 6 "Societe Historique" sign on old farm equipment in front of the house; 29-32, views of exterior of Maison Daigle; note very ornate front entry with painted symbols and sidelight windows; 33-36, field team members Lisa Ornstein (l.) Ray Brassieur (c.) Dave Whitman (r.) at the Maison Daigle; 34-35, views of the framing inside the replica / recreated Acadian barn.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: HM-B006-61312 Maison Daigle St. Jean, Clair, New Brunswick, Canada; Potato houses and Bangor and Aroostook Railroad, Fort Kent, Maine; Acadian house in Fort Kent, Maine, June 26, 1991
Photographer: Howard W. Marshall
Digital content available: afc1991029_hm_b006_61312
36 35 mm black-and-white film negatives
1, hallway of the recreated Acadian barn; 2, field researchers Ray Brassier (l.) and Lisa Ornstein (r.) at the barn; 5-8, views of St. River from the Maison Daigle, looking from south to north, including view of Ft. Kent, Maine; 9-10, views of the sign for the Maison Daigle museum from highway; 11, the Customs check point on the Clair, NB side of the bridge; 12-13, St. River and bridge from the international boundary point on the bridge between Clair and Ft. Kent; 14-27, potato houses and Bangor and Aroostook Railroad cars along Market Street in Ft. Kent; some photos show flat cars loaded with harvest logs to be shipped to mills; 15, Acadian cottage, in form much like the Maison Daigle (Clair, NB), next to railroad on Dube St. in Ft. Kent; 16-33, historic structures along the BAR rail: old caboose and restored station; 34, businesses on US 1 in Ft. Kent, near BAR; 35-36, Acadian house on Dube St. (see #15).
Call number: AFC 1991/029: HM-B007-61309 Acadian house in Fort Kent, Maine ; Frenchville historic site, Frenchville, Maine; Vernacular architecture on Route 1 between Fort Kent and Madawaska, Maine; Soldier Pond rest area and landscape on Maine 11, near Madawaska, Maine, June 26, 1991
Photographer: Howard W. Marshall
Digital content available: afc1991029_hm_b007_61309
36 35 mm black-and-white film negatives
1-2, Acadian house type on Dube St., Ft. Kent (continued); 3-4, Acadian house type on US 1 near Upper Frenchville; 5-11, views of historic BAR railroad water tower and vernacular houses in the community of Upper Frenchville on US 1; 12-16, views of Jesse Michaud store in Upper Frenchville; this is a rehabbed / enlarged and modified piece-sur-piece Acadian cottage house type; 17-19, Acadian cottage house type, Upper Frenchville of the bridge; 20, commercial building on US 1 (main street), Madawaska, "Acadian Festival Headquarters"; 21, [do], nice false-front building; 22-23, Acadian cottage, with enclosed front porch, Madawaska, US 1; 24-26, commercial building in Madawaska, US 1; 27, vernacular house with exceptionally developed pilasters, US 1 in Madawaska; 28-36, Soldier Pond rest area and landscape, Maine 11 south of Ft. Kent; historic markers overlooking the valley; site of original road into the area (Fish River Road); arpent land division system visible in these photos.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: HM-B008-61318 Acadian houses on Maine 11, Maine; St. Joseph Catholic Church and statuary, Wallagrass, Maine; Buildings in and around Eagle Lake, Maine; Val Violette House; Van Buren, Maine, June 26, 1991 - June 27, 1991
Photographer: Howard W. Marshall
Digital content available: afc1991029_hm_b008_61318
36 35 mm black-and-white film negatives
1-3, shingled, restored Acadian house type on Maine 11 (for sale); 4-10, St. Joseph Catholic church and statuary, Wallagrass community, Maine 11; 11-12, potato house (partly subterranean) on Maine 11 near Wallagrass / Plaisted communities; 15-16, Acadian house type with porch and larger attached room, Maine 11, Eagle Lake; 17, post office, Eagle Lake, Maine; 18, old folks home, Eagle Lake; 19—20, Victorian period New England temple-form house type, Maine 11, n. of Eagle Lake; 21-23, John Brown house, Maine 11, Eagle Lake; note clipped gables, color scheme (sang de bouef / oxblood plus grey); 24-36, Val Violette Acadian cottage house type, with Greek Revival exterior details, Van Buren on US 1; a National Register site; #34 shows old madriers (logs) cut out of rear wall during remodelling; #3 6, Ray Brassieur studies them; #35 shows the enclosed porch on the rear of the house.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: HM-B009-61313 Val Violette House, Van Buren, Maine; Acadian Village Museum,Van Buren, Maine, June 27, 1991
Photographer: Howard W. Marshall
Digital content available: afc1991029_hm_b009_61313
36 35 mm black-and-white film negatives
1-3, Ray Brassieur examines the remnants of madrier removed during remodelling of the Val Violette house; 4-5, views of the Val Violette house, rear; 6-13, views of architectural details, roof system, braces, etc. in attic of V. Violette house; 14-18, loom equipment / tools and historic loom in attic of V. Violette house; 19-23, Catholic nuns (and blood sisters) visiting in the Violette house while owners are away: Ludwina Deveau (rt.) and her sister, Sister Hermine Deveau (a Marist missionary) ; Brassieur talks with them in #21-23; 24-25, main building and gift shop at Acadian Village open-air museum, n. of Van Buren, US 1; 26-27, buildings there; 28-33, Parent-Roy log house of the earliest Acadian variety, much like houses of the British or Anglo-Americans except for the cornering details (#31) ; note the square-notching of the horizontal logs at the corners but with the vertical wooden pins to lock the corners in place (partially destroyed during museum relocation and reconstruction) ; note also that the logs are hewn with a broad axe square on all four sides and they fit flush horizontally (unlike Anglo-American log construction); note roof detail (eave treatment), a Quebec tradition; 34-36, interior.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: HM-B010-61323 Acadian Village Museum, Van Buren, Maine, June 27, 1991
Photographer: Howard W. Marshall
Digital content available: afc1991029_hm_b010_61323
36 35 mm black-and-white film negatives
1-9, Parent-Roy log house, continued; note armoire in #2, built-in corner bed in #3 ; Brassieur and freestanding fireplace in #4; 10, exterior — note Quebec curve to the eave of the roof; 11-14, exterior of Maison Morneault historic house, Acadian Village museum; a piece-sur-piece Acadian cottage en colombage; c. 1857; post office addition to south gable end; ship's knees in sleeping loft (two pair); note detailing around front door of the house (classical revival; federal); note bird house attached to corner of the house (as with other Acadian houses); 15-33, interior of attic: note especially the ship's knees (braces) in #15 etc., birch bark wall and roof insulation in #17, mortise-and-tenon construction of framework; 34-36, interior downstairs; loom, armoire.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: HM-B011-61329 Acadian Village Museum, Van Buren, Maine, June 27, 1991
Photographer: Howard W. Marshall
Digital content available: afc1991029_hm_b011_61329
36 35 mm black-and-white film negatives
1-4, interior, Maison Ouellette, 1859 Acadian cottage; horizontal log construction (perhaps half-dovetailed); note cast iron cook stove in #1 and cutout area of wall behind to allow better heat circulation; sink in #3; 5-6, the builder, Regis Levasseur in old photo displayed in the parlor of the Maison Ouellette; 7-10, interior views of parlor and bedroom; note furnishings; 11-12, old lithograph of Millais's "The Gleaners" on wall; 13, kitchen, armoire; 14-18, attic details; note newspaper insulation; 19-20, information posted to the interior wall of the house; 21-22, exterior of Maison Ouellette; 23, view of Maison Morneault (note post office room added to gable); piece-sur-piece Acadian cottage, en colombacre; 24-27, Maison Ouellette exterior, continued; note swallow house on corner; Acadian barn is visible behind house in #26; 28-31, Acadian barn fun grange Acadien) brought to the museum and reconstructed; shingled, three-bay barn of the early kind; 32, museum director Mrs. Ann Roy; 33-35, potato knife Marshall bought at Jesse Michaud store, Upper Frenchville; 36, parade float at the museum.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: HM-B012-61314 New Sweden community log house, New Sweden, Maine; Notre Dame du Mont Carmel Catholic Church and surrounding area, Lille, Maine, June 28, 1991
Photographer: Howard W. Marshall
Digital content available: afc1991029_hm_b012_61314
36 35 mm black-and-white film negatives
1, highway signs, Frenchville; 2-3, Swedish style log house, New Sweden community, Aroostook County interior; 4-11, Notre Dame du Mont Carmel, idled Catholic church in Lille, on US 1, being restored by owner Don Cyr; a National Register site; 12-13, porch details of the rectory; note the niche in the wal1; 14, Don Cyr's truck with Acadian pride license plate; 15, vie of landscape behind the church; 16-22, views of the church and rectory, continued; 23-24, cemetery; 24, the church; 25-26, connected dwelling, barn, and commercial building on US 1 adjacent to the church, Lille; 28-33, church, continued; 34-35, the structures in 25-26, continued; 36, the church.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: HM-B013-61325 Notre Dame du Mont Carmel Catholic Church, Lille, Maine; Violette log house (dismantled/stored), Lille, Maine, June 28, 1991
Photographer: Howard W. Marshall
Digital content available: afc1991029_hm_b013_61325
36 35 mm black-and-white film negatives
1, connected, buildings, US 1 next to Lille church; 2-3, vernacular houses on US 1 in Lille, across from the church; 4-10, Notre Dame du Mont Carmel, the Catholic church in Lille, on US 1, being restored by owner Don Cyr; a National Register site; 11-15, interior of the church; 16-22, cast iron angels, gilt, to be replaced on top of the twin towers of the church by Don Cyr; 23, detail of one of the interior columns grained to imitate marble; 24-26, drift pins, 8" hand-forged iron, from ship's knees in the dismantled Violette piece-surpiece en colombaqe house owned by Don Cyr; 27-28, Acadian barn, remodelled, part of the church property; Don Cyr stores antiques and parts of old buildings here; 29, Ray Brassieur (l.) visits with Don Cyr about the old buildings Cyr plans to restore; 30-34, Violette log house (piece-sur-piece), dismantled and stored under tarps behind the church Don Cyr owns; a National Register site, ithis dismantled building; 35-36, cemetery behind the church.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: HM-B014-61315 Don Cyr and the Violette log house (dismantled), Lille, Maine; Various scenes and vernacular barns, St. Agatha, Maine, June 28, 1991
Photographer: Howard W. Marshall
Digital content available: afc1991029_hm_b014_61315
36 35 mm black-and-white film negatives
1-2, Don Cyr and some of the stored parts of the Violette log house (dismantled), a National Register site; 3-4, the area continued; Acadian barn to the right; 5-6, Ray Brassieur (l.) visits with owner Don Cyr about his plans to reconstruct the Violette log house; 6-7, ship's knees from the loft of the Violette log house, stored under tarps; 8-10, flooring stored, V. house; 11-12, more parts from the house; 13-14, Acadian festival mural painted by Don Cyr; 15-16, cultural landscape behind (west of) the church and barn; 17-20, the Danny Labrie frame twin barn, St. Agatha community (2 1/2 mi. south of Frenchville), on a prosperous family potato farm. A twin barn is essentially a pair of Acadian type barns placed one behind the other with the interstice framed in with a transverse roof; note that the exterior walls are shingled; interior views suggest the framing (documented in Marshall fieldnotes); #18 features a new sheet metal equipment shed built like World War Two vintage "quonset hut" buildings; 21-36, interior of the Labrie twin barn.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: HM-B015-61311 Danny Labrie's "twin barn," St. Agatha, Maine, June 28, 1991
Photographer: Howard W. Marshall
Digital content available: afc1991029_hm_b015_61311
36 35 mm black-and-white film negatives
1-10, continued: Danny Labrie frame twin barn interior; 11-14, Ray Brassieur visits with Danny Labrie's father about how the barn was used and how it has been altered through time; 15, interior, continued (peak); 16-36, exterior of the barn circumscribed; potato field adjacent; the new quonset hut building (#28); shingle siding #27 etc.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: HM-B016-61326 Danny Labrie farm and post office, St. Agatha, Maine; Herman Deprey potato house, Maine; Buildings and scenes, Madawaska, Maine, June 28, 1991
Photographer: Howard W. Marshall
Digital content available: afc1991029_hm_b016_61326
36 35 mm black-and-white film negatives
1-3, Danny Labrie farm — house to left, an Acadian cottage type house; 4-5, landscape near Labrie farm; 6, post office, St. Agatha, Maine; 7-31, the Herman Deprey potato house; the structure features a concrete fire wall; located adjacent to Bangor and Aroostook Railroad line; potatoes are brought here from the fields and stored until shipped via rail to the market; the potato house (a kind of twolevel barn) has thickly insulated walls and is very dark; it is partly built into the side of the hill to provide access for loading the potato house from the top down; #29 is Ray Brassieur (r.) visiting with Mr. Deprey; 32, "Multi-Purpose Center," Madawaska, where the Acadian Festival fiddlers convention and dance was held; 33, Acadian house on US 1 in Madawaska across the road from the McDonalds; 34-35, Dolly's restaurant, Acadian cuisine, north of Madawaska on US 1; 36-36a, Lakeview diner on main street at K-Mart shopping center, Madawaska.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: HM-B017-61328 Lakeview Diner, Madawaska, Maine; Acadian Festival, Multi-Purpose Center, Madawaska, Maine, June 28, 1991
Photographer: Howard W. Marshall
Digital content available: afc1991029_hm_b017_61328
36 35 mm black-and-white film negatives
1-2, Lakeview diner, US 1, Madawaska; 3-36, Acadian Festival evening event featuring fiddlers, step-dancers, dancing, and local food at the Multi-Purpose Center, Madawaska; 7-14, local people representing the Bouchard company making and selling Acadian ploves during the event; they sell a pre-mixed recipe for making ploy; 32, parking lot; 33-35, more views of exterior of Multi-Purpose Center.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: HM-B018-61310 Acadian Festival, Multi-Purpose Center, Madawaska, Maine; Acadian cottage near Soldier Pond, Maine, June 28, 1991
Photographer: Howard W. Marshall
Digital content available: afc1991029_hm_b018_61310
36 35 mm black-and-white film negatives
1-35, continuation of the Acadian Festival evening event featuring fiddlers, step-dancers, dancing, and local food at the Multi-Purpose Center, Madawaska; 14-17; 19-24, Mr. Arcad Richaut, an important regional step-dancer, playing French harp; he has been to the Smithsonian's Festival of American Folklife; Ray Brassieur visited with him; 25-34, fiddlers and other musicians warming up (jamming, swapping tunes) in the back room; 27, this chap was the central player among the old-time fiddlers; Brassieur, Ornstein, Whitman fieldnotes have names, etc.; 36, Acadian cottage of the early type, with fine galleries, on Maine 11 near Soldier Pond.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: HM-B019-61322 Acadian vernacular architecture, on Maine 11, Upper Saint John River area, Maine, June 29, 1991
Photographer: Howard W. Marshall
Digital content available: afc1991029_hm_b019_61322
36 35 mm black-and-white film negatives
1-2, Acadian cottage of the early type, with fine galleries, on Maine 11 near Soldier Pond; 3-11, "La Vielle Maison," the Perreault farm, near Wallagrass on Maine 11: the frame house, c.1885; it is shingled entirely; dwelling is in the form of a familiar British Isles dwelling with different functional spaces; here, there is a small room for firewood and the garage is at the far gable end; 12-21, a fine three-bay Acadian frame barn at Perreault farm; its exterior was shingled; 22-24, owner Phyllis Perreault and her father, Roland Perreault (who lived here as a child with his aunt, a Michaud), with Mr. Perreault's old Oliver tractor; 25-27, landscape of the Perreault farmstead; 28-30, view of valley and Plourdes Store on Maine 11 n. of Soldier Pond; 31-36, Plourdes Store, a modified Acadian piece-sur-piece cottage.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: HM-B020-61321 Acadian vernacular architecture, on Maine 11, Upper Saint John River area, Maine and New Brunswick, June 29, 1991
Photographer: Howard W. Marshall
Digital content available: afc1991029_hm_b020_61321
36 35 mm black-and-white film negatives
1-2, Acadian cottage of the early type, with fine galleries, on Maine 11 near Soldier Pond; 3, central hall house with gothic dormers on Me. 11 in Ft. Kent; 4-7, views of the St. John River and Maine across, from New Brunswick at Baker Brook, NB; 8-9, historic New Brunswick Acadian cottage of the earliest Quebec type, north of San Basile; 10-11, vernacular houses along the highway to from Baker Brook to Frederickton; 12-13, views of the St. John River and Maine side; arpents visible; 14-16, vernacular houses, contd.; most are Acadian looking cottages and variations thereupon; 17, a white frame "four square" Midwestern USA type vernacular house, with typical pyramidal roof, that became popular as a pattern book house in the early 20th century; it is found throughout the areas I saw in Maine and New Brunswick; 18-19, old arpent landscape n. of San Basile; 20-21, San Basile church's cemetery and the Maison Alexis Cyr that was moved here and restored; 22-23, St. John River from San Basile cemetery; across is Madawaska, Maine (St. David); 24, cemetery, contd.; 25-27; 32-33, Maison Alexis Cyr — historic site at the St. Basile cemetery, on the St. John River directly across from St. David (Madawaska), Me.: c. 1800 Maison Alexis Cyr log house reconstructed at this site; 32-33, details on the Maison Alexis Cyr: handwrought iron thumb latches, memorial plaque on the wall; 28-31; 34-35, memorial chapel at the Alexis Cyr house site, built in 1960 to honor the Acadian settlers here; it is a modern variant of piece-sur-piece en colombage construction; 34-35, treaty marker and cemetery at St. Basile pioneers' memorial chapel.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: HM-B021 Scenes of Upper St. John River Valley, New Brunswick and Maine, June 29, 1991
Photographer: Howard W. Marshall
Digital content available: afc1991029_hm_b021
35 35 mm black-and-white film negatives
1, camera test, field notes; 2-4, San Basile church's cemetery and the church itself; 5-6, vernacular houses in St. Basile, NB; 7-8, entrance to the San Basile cemetery and the Maison Alexis Cyr historic site; 9, Acadian house, s. of San Basile; 10, local church, San Basile; 11-12, excellent example of an Acadian barn, south of Riviere Verte (Green River) and с. 1 mi. north of Sainte-Anne, NB; 13-15, connected farmstead near St. Leonard, NB, s. of San Basile; 16-20, Catholic church, St. Leonard; like all others, it is positioned high and faces the St. John River (and Van Buren, Maine); 22, Acadian cottage s. of St. Leonard; 23-36, highway, landscape; at #29 views of St. John River and landscape across in Maine, from New Brunswick, near St. Leonard; arpent land division system clearly seen.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: LO-B001-61422 Roadside crosses, Baker-Brook, New Brunswick; Good Shepherd Sisters Centennial Concert, Van Buren, Maine; Acadian Mass, Saint David, Maine, June 15, 1991 - June 27, 1991
Photographer: Lisa Ornstein
Digital content available: afc1991029_lo_b001_61422
36 35 mm black-and-white film negatives
These images document three separate documentary fieldwork events: roadside crosses located in Baker-Brook, New Brunswick (photographed 6/15/91); the Good Shepherd Sisters Centennial Concert at Saint Bruno Church in Van Buren, Me. (photographed 6/21/91); and the "Acadian Mass" at Saint David Church in Saint David, Me (photographed 6/27/91). For further details, consult MAPLO-F061591.A, MAP—L0-A004, MAP-L0-A005, and MAP-L0-A009; [2-9, document the roadside cross located on Route 120 at the Baker/Brook/Clair townline]; 2-5, roadside cross: full-length shots; 6-7, roadside cross area showing proximity of cross to townline welcome sign; 8-9, detail of roadside cross: shrinebox; lettering reads: Eternal Light; [10-22, document the roadside cross located at the corner of rue Cyr and Chemin du Lac]; 10-15, roadside cross: full-length shots; 16-17, detail of roadside cross: enclosed base; 18, detail of roadside cross: three-quarter-length shot; 19-20, detail of roadside cross: shrinebox; 21, detail of roadside cross: upper portion of cross; 22, detail of roadside cross: shrinebox; [22-25, document a ceremonial candle located in Saint Bruno Church (Van Buren, Me.) initially thought to be a special candle made to commemorate the Centennial of the arrival of the Good Shepherd Sisters; information made available later in the evening's fieldwork revealed this to not be the case]; [26-36, document the "Acadian Mass" celebrated at the Saint David Church in Saint David, Me.]; 26-28, Local parishioners who will carry commemorative family banners into the church for the special Mass gather in the church basement prior to the service; 29-34, At the beginning of the "Acadian Mass, "local parishioners process down the central aisle of the church, carrying commemorative family banners which will be posted along the walls of the church during the service; 35, Clergy and member of congregation pause in front of the altar before taking their place in the sanctuary; 36, View of the sanctuary; the family banners laid on the steps leading to the altar will be blessed during the service; 37, blank.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: LO-B002-61408 Acadian Mass, Saint David, Maine; Story of the Acadians, presented at Madawaska High School, Madawaska, Maine; Acadian Mass, Saint David, Maine, June 27, 1991 - June 28, 1991
Photographer: Lisa Ornstein
Digital content available: afc1991029_lo_b002_61408
36 35 mm black-and-white film negatives
These images document three separate documentary fieldwork events: the "Acadian Mass" at Saint David Church in Saint David, Me (photographed 6/27/91), "The Story of the Acadians," presented at the Madawaska High School library in Madawaska, Me. (photographed 6/28/91) and the Acadian Supper sponsored by the Madawaska Town Council and held in the Saint David church basement in Saint David, Me (photographed 6/28/91) . For further details, consult MAP-L0-A009, MAP-LO-AOIO, MAP-LO-A11, and MAP-LOF6/28/91.A; [2-10, document the "Acadian Mass" celebrated at the Saint David Church in Saint David, Me. on the morning of 27 June 1991 in conjunction with the Fourteenth Acadian Festival (Madawaska, Me.)]; 2, Member of the congregation costumed in "Acadian dress" delivers reading during the Mass; 3-5, Parishioners carrying commemorative family banners lead clergy and congregation in the annual "Acadian Mass" procession down to the "Acadian Landing Site" located close to the Saint David Church by the banks of the Saint John River; 6, Geraldine Chasse (Saint David, Me.) and unidentified local parishioner, wearing "Acadian" costumes, standing in front of family reunion commemorative markers at the "Acadian Landing Site" following the "Acadian Mass" procession; 7, Parishioners carrying commemorative family banners lead clergy and congregation in the annual "Acadian Mass" procession down to the "Acadian Landing Site" located close to the Saint David Church by the banks of the Saint John River; 8, Family banner carriers pose with their banners in front of their respective family reunion commemorative markers at the "Acadian Landing Site" following the "Acadian Mass" procession; 9, Monseigneur Chalut addresses parishioners who have gathered at the "Acadian Cross" at the "Acadian Landing Site" following the "Acadian Mass" at Saint David Church; 10, Parishioners listen to local clergy and dignitaries speak at the "Acadian Landing Site" following the "Acadian Mass" at Saint David Church; [11-25, document a free public event entitled "Story of the Acadians," featuring presentations by Ms. Bernette Albert [Madawaska, Me.] and Mr. Rosaire Sirois [Caribou, Me.]. "Story of the Acadians," an activity of the Fourteenth Acadian Festival, was presented at the Madawaska High School library, Madawaska, Me. on the morning of 28 June 1991]; 11, ship knee, a support timber cut from the junction of a tree trunk and limb, formerly used as an architectural brace in local framed timber buildings; brought for display by Mr. Rosaire Sirois; 12, sausage stuffing mill used for making boudin (blood sausage); brought in for display by Mr. Rosaire Sirois; 13, counter in front of the audience seating area decorated with display items brought in by Mr. Rosaire Sirois; on the floor in front of the counter: a tin tub formerly used for the weekly family bath, an old fence rail, and a potato barrel formerly used for harvesting potatoes; on the counter top: a sausage stuffing mill formerly used for making boudin (blood sausage), a ship knee, and a split ash basket formerly used for harvesting potatoes; leaning against the back wall is a large plank of pitsawn lumber; 14, Ms. Bernette Albert, wearing an "Acadian costume," speaks to the audience about the history of the Acadians; 15-18, Mr. Rosaire Sirois speaks to the audience about local culture and occupational history, explaining the items which he has brought in for display; 19-20, Mr. Rosaire Sirois swings a "cric-crac" a ratchet traditionally used by the local Catholic clergy during Holy Week to call parishioners to church; 21, Mr. Rosaire, holding an old-fashioned bath tub and explaining to the audience the weekly ritual of the family Saturday night bath with which he grew up; 22, Mr. Rosaire Sirois speaks to the audience about local culture and occupational history, explaining the items which he has brought in for display; 23, Mr. Rosaire Sirois demonstrating the use of a sausage stuffing mill formerly used for making homemade boudin, a blood sausage; 24-25, Mr. Rosaire Sirois, who operates a small blade sharpening business, stands in front of his service truck in the Madawaska High School parking lot following his presentation; [26-36A, photographed by David Whitman, document the Acadian Supper sponsored by the Madawaska Town Council and held in the Saint David church basement in Saint David, Me. on the evening of 28 June 1991]; 26, three ladies from the volunteer staff gather supper plates to be served from the kitchen crew; 27, supper-goers enjoying meal; costumed diners are members of the "Acadian Singers," who provided a short concert during the meal; 28, volunteer hostess at the wine and cheese table; 29-31, supper-goers enjoying meal; costumed diners are members of the "Acadian Singers," who provided a short concert during the meal; 32, fieldworkers Lisa Ornstein and Ray Brassieur enjoying their suppers; 33-35, volunteer kitchen crew serving up supper plates; one lady is serving baked potatoes out of a large rectangular baking tin and pouring gravy over them; another lady is serving up cooked fiddle head ferns; 36, supper-goers enjoying meal; 36, volunteer staff gather meals to be served from the kitchen crew; 36A, supper-goers enjoying meal.
Call number: AFC 1991/029: LO-B003 Albert Michaud with bird houses at Village Acadien, Van Buren, Maine; two unidentified women, July, 1991
Photographer: Lisa Ornstein
Digital content available: afc1991029_lo_b003
15 35 mm black-and-white film negatives
Log missing
Call number: AFC 1991/029: RB-B001-61412 Framstead, Bridgewater, Maine; Log retaining wall, Violette Brook, Van Buren, Maine; St. Bruno Catholic Church and choir performance, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church, Lille, Maine, 1991
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