Download or read book A History of Lewiston Maine written by Janus Granville Elder and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Lewiston Maine with a Genealogical Register of Early Families Revised Edition written by Janus G. Elder and published by . This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by David and Elizabeth (Keene) Young. This revised edition offers a foreword by Douglas I. Hodgkin of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, and a new prologue from the authors. A new index of places and subjects has been added, following the existing f
Download or read book A Political History of Lewiston Maine 1930 39 written by Laureat Bernard and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Lewiston Public Library Lewiston Maine written by Phyllis B. Hemmer and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Frontier to Industrial City written by Douglas I. Hodgkin and published by Just Write Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Its history, location, people and industry--all serve as an example of small riverside settlements that grew into industrial cities over the course of a century early in our country's history. From schools, to factories, to founding families, to all the minutiae that create a town--it provides a clear picture of the many facets of Lewiston during its transformation.
Download or read book A History of Norway Maine written by Charles Foster Whitman and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Androscoggin County Maine written by Georgia Drew Merrill and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Somalis in Maine written by Kimberly A. Huisman and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lewiston, a mill town of about thirty-six thousand people, is the second-largest city in Maine. It is also home to some three thousand Somali refugees. After initially being resettled in larger cities elsewhere, Somalis began to arrive in Lewiston by the dozens, then the hundreds, after hearing stories of Maine’s attractions through family networks. Today, cross-cultural interactions are reshaping the identities of Somalis—and adding new chapters to the immigrant history of Maine. Somalis in Maine offers a kaleidoscope of voices that situate the story of Somalis’ migration to Lewiston within a larger cultural narrative. Combining academic analysis with refugees’ personal stories, this anthology includes reflections on leaving Somalia, the experiences of Somali youth in U.S. schools, the reasons for Somali secondary migration to Lewiston, the employment of many Lewiston Somalis at Maine icon L. L. Bean, and community dialogues with white Mainers. Somalis in Maine seeks to counter stereotypes of refugees as being socially dependent and unable to assimilate, to convey the richness and diversity of Somali culture, and to contribute to a greater understanding of the intertwined futures of Somalis and Americans.
Download or read book History of the Town of Leeds Androscoggin County Maine written by John C. Stinchfield and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Franco Americans of Lewiston Auburn written by Mary Rice-Defosse and published by History Press Library Editions. This book was released on 2015-01-26 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franco-Americans brought their proud cultural legacy to Lewiston-Auburn beginning in the mid-nineteenth century. As their population grew, religious leaders became community leaders, building an independent parish and a support system, as well as providing child care. The Sisters of Charity cared for the sick and orphaned and ran the first bilingual school in Maine. Franco-Americans grappled with their own questions of patriotism, identity and culture, assimilating as Americans while preserving both their French and French Canadian backgrounds. Authors Mary Rice-DeFosse and James Myall explore the challenges, accomplishments and enduring bonds of the Franco-Americans in Lewiston-Auburn.
Download or read book Making Refuge written by Catherine Besteman and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-22 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do people whose entire way of life has been destroyed and who witnessed horrible abuses against loved ones construct a new future? How do people who have survived the ravages of war and displacement rebuild their lives in a new country when their world has totally changed? In Making Refuge Catherine Besteman follows the trajectory of Somali Bantus from their homes in Somalia before the onset in 1991 of Somalia’s civil war, to their displacement to Kenyan refugee camps, to their relocation in cities across the United States, to their settlement in the struggling former mill town of Lewiston, Maine. Tracking their experiences as "secondary migrants" who grapple with the struggles of xenophobia, neoliberalism, and grief, Besteman asks what humanitarianism feels like to those who are its objects and what happens when refugees move in next door. As Lewiston's refugees and locals negotiate coresidence and find that assimilation goes both ways, their story demonstrates the efforts of diverse people to find ways to live together and create community. Besteman’s account illuminates the contemporary debates about economic and moral responsibility, security, and community that immigration provokes.
Download or read book Official Manual of the Lewiston Board of Trade Lewiston Maine written by Board of Trade (Lewiston, Me.) and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Unlikeliness of it All written by Phil Nadeau and published by Phil Nadeau. This book was released on 2021-04-14 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Native Insider's Detailed Look Into The Unlikely History of Lewiston, Maine An engaging and insightful deep dive into the history of Lewiston Maine, The Unlikeliness of it All is written by native insider Phil Nadeau, a city official of almost two decades. Nadeau offers unique insight into the complex immigrant, political, socio-economic, and immigrant landscape that influenced how the city was formed, and how it responded to the arrival of Somali refugees in 2001 and 2002. Nadeau's narrative history explains how 150 years of immigration has influenced the city's economic, social, and political trajectory. Lewiston and "twin city" Auburn made up a community where 70 percent of all early 20th century jobs were tied to local textile and shoe manufacturing industries, and created the state's largest economy. Over time, many immigrants and the city's predominantly French Canadian community worked through cultural, political and religious discrimination to improve their lives while also confronting the reality of declining textile and shoe production in the 1950s. After almost 50 years, many of the sons, daughters and grandchildren of these first immigrants helped to transform the community through their collaborative and dogged determination to create a far more diversified local economy just as the first Somali refugees arrived in 2001. With the economic renaissance underway, the growing Somali population and how the city responded became a national and international news story that made global headlines. Nadeau uncovers little known and new information regarding notable historic moments, facts, people and explains how the city's "global singularity" began with a world championship fight and why the eyes of the world remained fixated on this small Maine town's new Somali residents, a mayor's letter, and a rally against hate that drew over 4,000 people. At once both prescient toward the shifting modern landscape and thoughtful in the careful collection of historical details, this book includes information regarding: French Canadian Immigration Lewiston Immigrant History Lewiston Franco Americans Somali Refugees Secondary Migration Influences Maine's First Refugee Resettlement Lewiston Mill and Industrial History Lewiston Economic Development History Lewiston Political History Mayor Larry Raymond's Letter White Supremacist Organizations History The Many and One Rally Community Engagement Municipal, State and Federal Collaboration Nadeau was featured in the Dominic Pulera book Sharing the Dream and has been interviewed by authors Elizabeth Strout, Cynthia Anderson, Amy Bass and by Heather McGhee for her new book "The Sum of Us." He also has been interviewed by the national and international news media; has spoken nationally; has been published by the Southern Maine Review and the National Civic League; and was a contributing essayist in the book "Somalis in Maine: Crossing Cultural Currents."
Download or read book Home Now written by Cynthia Anderson and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving chronicle of who belongs in America. Like so many American factory towns, Lewiston, Maine, thrived until its mill jobs disappeared and the young began leaving. But then the story unexpectedly veered: over the course of fifteen years, the city became home to thousands of African immigrants and, along the way, turned into one of the most Muslim towns in the US. Now about 6,000 of Lewiston's 36,000 inhabitants are refugees and asylum seekers, many of them Somali. Cynthia Anderson tells the story of this fractious yet resilient city near where she grew up, offering the unfolding drama of a community's reinvention--and humanizing some of the defining political issues in America today. In Lewiston, progress is real but precarious. Anderson takes the reader deep into the lives of both immigrants and lifelong Mainers: a single Muslim mom, an anti-Islamist activist, a Congolese asylum seeker, a Somali community leader. Their lives unfold in these pages as anti-immigrant sentiment rises across the US and national realities collide with those in Lewiston. Home Now gives a poignant account of America's evolving relationship with religion and race, and makes a sensitive yet powerful case for embracing change.
Download or read book A Brief History of Trinity Parish Lewiston Maine 1854 1903 written by Ivan C. Fortin and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the Municipal Officers of the Town of Lewiston Maine written by Lewiston (Me ) and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-12-13 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Maine in History and Romance written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: