Acadians

  • The Woes of Evangeline

    During high school, I received an underappreciated Christmas gift from my Downeaster grandparents—a book of poetry, essays, and illustrations featuring aspects of Maine history, legend, and culture. I don’t remember the book’s title or where it may have ended up along the road of life. But one thing I recall with clarity: Within its pages…

  • The French Connection

    During our recent furlough from Chile, my husband and I visited our firstborn daughter and her family at a wildlife refuge in the high desert of northern Nevada. In kind of a full circle way, her maternal grandfather spent part of his early childhood, nearly a century ago, in southern Nevada—in a wild life that…