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African immigrants drive French-speaking renaissance in Maine
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Aug 19, 2018 10:47am |
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| Category | General |
| Author | Peter McGuire |
| News Date | Sunday, July 31, 2016 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | LEWISTON — When Cecile Thornton moved back to Lewiston last year, she wanted to connect with her roots. She grew up in the city and spoke French at home, but when she moved away, her language skills faded.
Her first attempts to reconnect with the language were discouraging. Thornton started with the monthly Le Rencontre luncheon at the Franco Center for Heritage and the Performing Arts, thinking it was an obvious place to meet fluent French speakers. To her dismay, everyone at the gathering was speaking English.
Disappointed, Thornton, 61, started asking where French was still being spoken, and was pointed to an unlikely place – a public housing development on the east side of the city.
There, twice each week in the Hillview Apartments Resource Center, people from French-speaking countries in Africa swap stories with third- and fourth-generation Franco-Americans. |
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