• Most notable 2019 French news- Fire in Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral
• A French Catholic State in North America? Rescuing Tardivel
• Placemen, Knights, and Laborers: Honoré Beaugrand on Emigration
• Enjoying the Long Weekend? Thank Franco-Americans for New Year’s Day
• Trois-Rivières/Montreal 2020 Tour

Melody joins us for her first News segment and then Mike talks about next week’s interview with Robert Sylvain.

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This week Jesse and Mike talk about their plans and goals for 2020. We’ll have a few changes in 2020 and some new things we hope everyone will enjoy! We’re launching a Patreon and we hope you’ll consider supporting us.

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Blog Links

• Thoughts on the Past — and the Future — from Eight 100-Year-Old Mainers
• Ethnic Politics in Rhode Island: The Case of the Franco Americans
• Franco-American Esther Duflo Wins the Nobel Prize in Economics
• Teachers 2.0: An Online French-American High School
• An “Impending Race War” in Canada? Victorian Englishman “Explains” Québec to the U.S.
• Ethnic Anxiety and the Race Problem
• A French-Canadian Christmas
• Celebrating tourtieres by sharing traditions
• Bender’s French-Canadian Holidays
• Robert Sylvain plays Mémère’s Notebook

Events

• Public Events at Le Club Calumet
• FAC Event Center
• Oral History Workshop with Oral Historian Molly Graham
• Valley Talks: SOS – Save our Stadium
• The French Cultural Center of Boston

Jesse gives you an update on what’s going in the Franco-American scene around New England. He talks about popular events and blog events. Then Mike will let you know about next week’s special episode. Click here for a list of all the blogs and events Jesse mentioned in the episode.

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We wanted to have a special episode about Christmas so we invited Juliana L’Heureux back to the show to talk to us about the holiday. She’ll give us a language lesson about how to say Merry Christmas and tell us about her Noel theory. She’ll also talk about the history of Pork Pie aka Tourtière. At the end you’ll hear Josée Vachon’s version of Jesse’s favorite Christmas song. We hope you have an amazing holiday and enjoy listening to this fun episode.

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This week’s guest is Sandra Goodwin. She’s the host of Maple Stars and Stripes: Your French-Canadian Genealogy Podcast. Sandra started the podcast in 2013 and she’s almost to episode 100. Jesse and Sandra will talk about how she got into Genology in 1992 and the differences between Genology today and back then. She’ll give some tips about how to start your own research.

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