http://web2.adfl.org/adfl/bulletin/v11n4/114017.htm

I had a radio in Aroostook County that would only play French music. I was in southern Aroostook County and not much farther north in mid 1980s they really started to be French-speaking and eventually almost predominantly French-speaking. They tried to gt me to return to Maine and work in a French-speaking school where they had shortages of school counselors and I said but I don't speak French, and frankly I don't have an ear for languages although I can learn the written languages fairly easily.

And I worked on a research project in Lewiston, which was heavily Franco-American and it was a blind study so I never knew exactly what it was about but it had to do with Franco-American education. This was through the University of Maine.

Maine was part of Acadia and also attracted a lot of French Canadians to its lumber woods and its mills. I think it is really important for people to know the history and migration patterns of places. mg