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Photo, Print, Drawing Acadian Festival talent show, Madawaska, Maine; Acadian Mass, Saint David, Maine

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Title

  • Acadian Festival talent show, Madawaska, Maine; Acadian Mass, Saint David, Maine

Names

  • Brassieur, C. Ray (Research team member)
  • Ornstein, Lisa (Research team member)
  • Whitman, David A., 1950- (Photographer)

Created / Published

  • Madawaska, Maine; Saint David, Maine, June 26, 1991 - June 27, 1991

Headings

  • -  Folklore--Maine
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  Documentary photographs
  • -  United States -- Maine -- Aroostook County -- Saint David
  • -  United States -- Maine -- Aroostook County -- Madawaska

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography
  • Documentary photographs

Notes

  • -  Index data: These images document the talent show held as part of the annual Acadian Festival in Madawaska, ME; 1, A Canadian woman, name unknown, performs a traditional dance; 2, A former local beauty pageant queen who now lives out of state, who returned to perform a song at the talent show; 3, Local fiddler Lionel Doucette, who performed three tunes; 4, George Sullivan, an employee of Fraser Paper in Madawaska, performs a humorous skit which included impressions of Louis Armstrong; 5, Jennifer Michaud, the current Miss Greater Madawaska, performs a song; These images document the Acadian Mass, held annually at St. David Catholic Church in St. David, ME, during the Acadian Festival week; 6-7, Family members line up behind their respective banners for the procession at the start of the mass; 8, The procession begins; 9, Part of the congregation; 10-17, The procession continues; each family which has previously held a reunion during the Acadian festival has a banner which is carried in and laid in front of the altar; 18, The last members of the initial procession; the woman's costume is intended to replicate traditional Acadia garb; 19, The priests at the altar begin the mass; 20, Part of the congregation

Medium

  • 35 mm color slide

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1991/029: DW-C021
  • Field project identifier: MAP-DW-C021

Source Collection

  • Maine Acadian Cultural Survey collection (AFC 1991/029)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

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Credit line: Maine Acadian Cultural Survey collection (AFC 1991/029), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Brassieur, C. Ray, Lisa Ornstein, and David A Whitman. Acadian Festival talent show, Madawaska, Maine; Acadian Mass, Saint David, Maine. Madawaska Aroostook County United States Saint David Maine, 1991. Madawaska, Maine; Saint David, Maine, - June 27, 1991. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_dw_c021/.

APA citation style:

Brassieur, C. R., Ornstein, L. & Whitman, D. A. (1991) Acadian Festival talent show, Madawaska, Maine; Acadian Mass, Saint David, Maine. Madawaska Aroostook County United States Saint David Maine, 1991. Madawaska, Maine; Saint David, Maine, - June 27, 1991. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_dw_c021/.

MLA citation style:

Brassieur, C. Ray, Lisa Ornstein, and David A Whitman. Acadian Festival talent show, Madawaska, Maine; Acadian Mass, Saint David, Maine. Madawaska, Maine; Saint David, Maine, - June 27, 1991. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_dw_c021/>.