ON A MISSION TO SAVE IT. AROOSTOOK COUNTY IS A LONG WAY FROM ANYWHERE, AND THAT ALLOWS FOR A CERTAIN FREEDOM. AN AMISH COMMUNITY HAS TAKEN ROOT IN RECENT DECADES, AND OLD TRADITIONS LIVE ON HERE, ...

LOREAUVILLE, La. (WAFB) - The small village of Loreauville has become ground zero for the beginning of Acadiana, the area of southwest Louisiana where exiled French Acadians settled and held onto ...

As Acadiana and Louisiana prepare to celebrate Veterans Day on Friday, similar ceremonies will be taking place in Canada. And in the Canadian Maritime provinces, that's not where the similarities end.

When French men and women sailed the Atlantic Ocean from their home country to the new world, starting in the early 17th century, they retained their cultural ties to France while leaving the French ...

Faragher relates, in all its complex, searingly sad details, the story of how the hapless French Acadians were run out of their Nova Scotia homes—a story known to most from Longfellow's Evangeline.

Dolly's Restaurant in Frenchville, Maine, offers delicious Acadian cuisine and American diner classics.

The Acadian Archives/Archives acadiennes located at the University of Maine at Fort Kent will launch its annual Acadian History Lecture ...

Notes: In this essay, James Kences documents the Great Upheaval or Great Derangement, the forced removal of the French from the Canadian Maritimes in 1755, which occurred just as the British and ...