UMaine Franco Update, February 7, 2025

We are happy to announce that the Franco American Collections Consortium (https://facconsortium.org) has been awarded a grant from the National Archives. We will digitize over 2,000 photographs; 25,700 minutes of oral history recordings; 13,000 pages of newsletters and cultural publications; and 62,000 pages of personal, family, and organizational records throughout New England that document French-Canadian and Acadian diaspora communities' lived experiences of work.