The Mending

Scraps waiting to be sewn together

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Friday, April 19th: Our Ancient Dialects

From Seabrook to Manchester's West Side.

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How foolish to think you can tell your children about yourself before they're at least fifty. To ask to be seen by them as a person and not as a function. To say : I am your history, you begin from me, listen to me, it could be useful to you.

Elena Ferrante

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Théâtre de fond de cour

Ce court métrage documentaire expose l’influence marquante du dramaturge Michel Tremblay et du metteur en scène André Brassard sur l’émergence d’un théâtre propre au Québec durant les années ...

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Ending the Damaging Myth of "€œBad French"€ in New England

When French Ambassador Paul Claudel visited Lewiston, Maine, in 1930, he was given a warm reception by Franco-American leaders in the city. A delegation of civic leaders greeted him at the …

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L'actualité politique de l'Ontario et de la francophonie canadienne

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Cher francophone, d'un francophone | Rad

Est-ce qu'on peut dire à quelqu'un que son accent est « cute »? Pourquoi certains francophones sont-ils gênés de s'exprimer en français? Des Acadiens témoignent dans cette grande lettre qui t'est adressée, cher francophone.

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La francophonie nord-americaine

Historical atlas of francophone North America

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7 Generation ancestor chart

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Chantal Bilodeau on “Breaking Up with Aristotle” and Finding New Ways to Tell Stories Onstage

Playwright Chantal Bilodeau joins us to discuss her essay "Why I'm Breaking Up with Aristotle," and how we need to explore new forms of storytelling in order to create theatre that engages with issues like climate change.

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What's The History Of French Canadian Immigration Into Vermont?

There was a time when it was totally normal to hear French spoken in some of Vermont’s smallest towns and biggest cities.

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A question mark ? is a sickle, cutting down what's rigid.

Shira Erlichman (@sheer_awe)

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On Becoming an American Writer

Only in America do we ask our writers to believe they don’t matter as a condition of writing.

“Speak to your dead. Write for your dead. Tell them a story. What are you doing with this life? Let them hold you accountable. Let them make you bolder or more modest or louder or more loving, whatever it is, but ask them in, listen, and then write.“

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John Leguizamo’s Latino-History Lecture

In his new one-man Broadway show, Leguizamo casts himself as “ghetto scholar,” sprinting from the Aztecs to Sonia Sotomayor in less than two hours—with dance breaks.

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“Why are we so invisible?” I've heard this question wherever Franco-Americans gather, be it through my social media contacts, at conferenc...

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A Slightly Embarrassing Love for Jack Kerouac

The books we read as teen-agers—the ones that get inside us and rearrange things—are sacred, even when they’re plainly imperfect.

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We tell ourselves little fictions in order to cope with the larger fiction perpetrated on us.

Amanda Earl

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From Vilified to Victorious: Reconceiving La Corriveau in Anne Hébert’s La Cage

“Considering that the French-Canadian mother ‘is the only female archetype in Quebec literature’ (Le Moyne 79), Hébert re-establishes Ludivine’s bonds with her historical model, while also scoffing at the societal and literary pigeonhole that reduces women to their reproductive capacities.”