Késsinnimek - Roots - Racines

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Conni Castille is a Louisiana-born French-Acadian woman who recently created a 25-minute documentary film honoring Cajun women and the art of ironing. Castille produced the visual gem, "I Always Do My Collars First: A Film About Ironing," as a tribute to the pride French-Acadian women take in doing daily tasks...

For more years than I care to count, my morning prayer has been “Thank you, God, for another day and for the love of my life to share it with.” I haven’t quite figured out what to say now, beyond the first part, for the love of my life departed on August 21. The published obituary reads in part: “He will be remembered for his total honesty, his generous heart, his cheerful whistle, his love of Big Band music, and his wicked sense of humor.” That’s just the tip of the iceberg...

The July weather was hot but the welcome was warm as my husband and I traveled along Route 1 in Maine and Route 132 in the Gaspésie on our 1,500 mile round-trip from the Midcoast to the very eastern tip of the Gaspé peninsula.
Like a hat band with the Appalachian mountains in the middle and a narrow strip of coast along the edge, Route 132 wraps around the Gaspésie. The two-lane highway is lined with large, well-kept houses adorned with bright red or blue roofs and decked out with generous front porches. A summer shack or abandoned house or barn is a rarity. Families obviously take pride in their homes...

The year 1660 was the hardest ever for the inhabitants of the fur trading post at Quebec. The attacks by the marauding Iroquois seemed unrelenting. Leaving the protection of the fortified post to tend crops or cut wood was very dangerous. Many people were killed outright or taken prisoner. It became acutely evident that the mercantile companies under whose protection the post operated had sent an insufficient number of armed men to keep the post and its people safe...

In case you think the English language is easy to learn, check out the following words ! Our friend Dr. Jerry Vermette of Skowhegan sent it to us ! He enjoyed challenging me when I was the editor and owner of the Somerset Reporter in Skowhegan years ago ! He and his wife Ruth took Claire and me to Lakewood Theatre, last week !...

January is the coldest of the cold and probably the most encouraging sign of the time would be around the 10th when you will hear, ''Well the are beginning to get longer now''. A sure sign of someone searching out something optimistic while checking on his woodstove. The new have February 2nd, ''à la Chandleur, la neige est à son hauteur''. I rhymes great andevery generation has heard it from their grandfather. The old folks believed this except that you can be sure that within a few days a foot of snow will fall. So much for the sayings of the old folks. February 15th means winter is over. It is?...

   And another presented by Jim   The Hurricane of 1938

My experience and observation of the great hurricane of September 1938 by Warren V. Vail

In the whole history of Orient, to my knowledge there has never been any record of conditions to equal or to come anywhere near the savagery of the hurricane of September 21, 1938. We have heard of some very hard gales as told us by old timers, and have experienced a few ourselves, but for all-around destructiveness went beyond any ever recorded here...

I never met Jack Kerouac but he influenced my life, at least for a time. When I was young, I was convinced that I was Beat, and Jack was the guy who described what that meant for me and countless other young guys in the fifties. But it didn't take me long to discover that I wasn't cut out for life on the road, at least as described by Kerouac, and was just playing at what for Jack was very real...

Jour de grand émoi, aux Îles Percées en ce jour, le cinq décembre 1670. L'épouse du seigneur Pierre Boucher vient de donner naissance à des jumelles. L'émoi atteint un sommet quand on apprend que les enfants sont en 'péril de mort'. Le prêtre appelé de toute urgence au chevet de Jeanne Crevier ondoie l'enfant Jeanne ce même jour.. L'autre sera ondoyée, elle aussi mais trois semaines plus tard. Un premier hiver passe et au printemps on procède aux baptêmes des jumelles. (1) Jeanne est baptisée la première, son parrain sera son frère aîné Pierre Boucher de Boucherville (1-1) et Catherine Primot, épouse de Charles LeMoine sera sa marraine...

On this day December 5th 1670 a joyful happening occurred in the Îles Percées. The wife of the seignior Pierre Boucher gave birth to a set of twins. Emotions reached a high point when they realized that the children were close to death. On this same day the priest was urgently called to Jeanne Crevier's bedside to bless and name the child Jeanne. The other child will also be blessed in three weeks time.. Their first winter passed and in the springtime the family proceeded with the baptismal of the twins. Jeanne is the first to be baptized, her godfather will be her eldest brother Pierre Boucher de Boucherville (1) and Catherine Primot, wife of Charles LeMoine will be her godmother...

I am happy to announce a Dina Conference which will take place in Rome, in October. This Conference is organized by the postulator for the cause of Dina, Mgr Brunero Gherardini. May this conference favour the influence of our Blessed Dina.

Hello from Burlington, Vermont. Just wanted to let you know how much I enjoy reading "Roots" each month. Louise Dubrule introduced me to it a long time ago, and not only have I become a faithful reader, but I have passed the website along to several other friends and family members.

The following valued comments and opinions were sent to me by our authors...

Soeur Réjane Veilleux, RJM   Dina pense à vous   Dina is thinking of you   Dina piensa en ti