Bonjour! This month, we’re bringing you the second half of our Mapping Franco Biddeford episode! If you didn’t listen to part one, we highly recommend going back and giving it a listen; part two will make a whole lot more sense. Last fall, a few days after our Osher visit, Emma Bouthillette, Biddeford native and author, met the Franco-American pathways team and Libby Bischof to take a historic walking tour of Biddeford. We made connections to the maps and documents we’d viewed just a few days earlier.

Our visit concluded with a stop at the McArthur Library where Renée Burkett and her team in Special Collections gave us a tour of their space and their extensive collection of artifacts relating to Franco Biddeford.

Music for Franco-American Pathways was composed and performed by Robert Sylvain and is available for purchase on his website, robertsylvain.com.

Special thanks to Dr. Libby Bischof at the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, Emma Bouthillette, and Renée Burkett for making our mapping of Franco Biddeford possible.

All editing and production for this episode was done at WMPG, USM’s community radio.

Merci, et a la prochaine !