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Photo, Print, Drawing Various buildings and scenes, Leona Cyr, Grande Riviere Festival, Upper St. John River Valley, Maine

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Title

  • Various buildings and scenes, Leona Cyr, Grande Riviere Festival, Upper St. John River Valley, Maine

Names

  • Brassieur, C. Ray (Photographer)

Created / Published

  • St. John River Valley, Maine, 1991

Headings

  • -  Folklore--Maine
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  Documentary photographs
  • -  United States -- Maine -- St. John River Valley

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography
  • Documentary photographs

Notes

  • -  Index data: These images document a variety of buildings and scenes; 1, Old Mill Marina, Eagle Lake, a former sawmill converted into a motel/restaurant/marina combination; 2, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle graffiti, Eagle Lake; 3, Shrine at a house in Frenchville, ME; these shrines are found throughout the study area; 4, Connecticut license plate on a car parked at Rosette's, a restaurant in Frenchville, photographed on July 4th weekend; there are many people originally from the area who have moved to Connecticut; 5, A group of buildings in Lavertu Settlement, ME; 6, Porsche with "PATATE" license plate parked at Doris' Cafe in Fort Kent, ME; potatoes are the primary crop in the study area (patate is Acadian French for potato). We were unable to locate the owner of the car; These images document a visit to weaver Leona Cyr, who lives in a senior citizens home called the Maison Acadienne in Madawasda, ME; 7, Some of Ms. Cyr's weaving; 8, Maison Acadienne; Miscellaneous images; 9-10, Farm building under construction, State Highway 161 (Caribou Rd.), Fort Kent, ME; although we saw a number of buildings being torn down, this is one of the few examples of new construction we encountered; 11, Abandoned and collapsing twin barn, Highway 161, Fort Kent; These images document events at the annual Grande Riviere festival in Van Buren, ME. The first is called Tintamarre, a sort of celebratory noisemaking contest between residents of Van Buren, ME, and St-Leonard, New Brunswick. The second is tug-of-war between residents of the two towns held on the international bridge; 12, Tintamarre participants gather with their kitchen implement noisemakers in a Van Buren parking lot prior to marching to the bridge for the contest; 13, Sign pointing the way to the bridge; 14, Fieldworker David Whitman photographs the event; 15-16, Getting ready to march to the bridge; 17-20, Some of the Van Buren participants in the tug-of-war

Medium

  • 35 mm color slide

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1991/029: RB-C007
  • Field project identifier: MAP-RB-C007

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. Various buildings and scenes, Leona Cyr, Grande Riviere Festival, Upper St. John River Valley, Maine. St. John River Valley United States Maine, 1991. St. John River Valley, Maine. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_rb_c007/.

APA citation style:

Brassieur, C. R. (1991) Various buildings and scenes, Leona Cyr, Grande Riviere Festival, Upper St. John River Valley, Maine. St. John River Valley United States Maine, 1991. St. John River Valley, Maine. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_rb_c007/.

MLA citation style:

Brassieur, C. Ray. Various buildings and scenes, Leona Cyr, Grande Riviere Festival, Upper St. John River Valley, Maine. St. John River Valley, Maine. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_rb_c007/>.