Document Type

Oral History

Title

Rosalie “Rose” Bosse Flanagan and Flora Bosse, interviewed by Adeline “Connie” St. Louis, Yvonne Ouellette, and Betty Maderos, Part 1

Interviewee name

Rosalie Bosse Flanagan
Flora Bosse

Interviewer

Adeline “Connie” St. Louis; Yvonne Ouellette; Betty Maderos

Interview date

11-22-1993

Interview location

Old Town, Maine

Time

00:32:07

Files

Streaming Media

Abstract

Rosalie “Rose” Bosse Flanagan and Flora Bosse, interviewed by Adeline “Connie” St. Louis, Yvonne Ouellette, and Betty Maderos, November 22, 1993, Old Town, Maine. For the "Islands and Bridges" project. The two sisters talk about growing up on French Island in Old Town; family history; emigration from Canada; neighbors; swimming; ball games; food shopping on the Island; ice and milk delivery; parents' work; Great Depression; changes on the Island; vegetable gardens; keeping pigs and chickens; Christmas celebrations; French food; St. Joseph School; speaking French at home and school; buying and making clothes; funeral customs and wakes; bootlegging and homebrew; tobacco use; present-day use of French, and extent to which their children's generation speak French. Restriction expired January 1, 2000.

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Disciplines

Oral History | United States History

Nation of origin

Canada

Home state/Territory

Maine

Gender

Female

Ethnicity

European-American

Ethnic group

Franco-American

Headings

Maine History; Old Town Maine History; Franco-Americans History; Franco-américains Histoire

Collection name

Islands and Bridges: Communities of Memory in Old Town, Maine / French Island Collection

Collection number

MF026

Item number

NA2431

Recommended Citation

Flanagan, Rosalie Bosse and Bosse, Flora, "Rosalie “Rose” Bosse Flanagan and Flora Bosse, interviewed by Adeline “Connie” St. Louis, Yvonne Ouellette, and Betty Maderos, Part 1" (2023). MF026 Islands and Bridges: Communities of Memory in Old Town, Maine. 1.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mf026/1

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