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The Acadian diaspora : an eighteenth-century history
The Acadian Diaspora tells the extraordinary story of thousands of Acadians expelled from Nova Scotia and scattered throughout the Atlantic world beginning in 1755. Following them to the Caribbean, the South Atlantic, and western Europe, historian Christopher Hodson illuminates a long-forgotten world of imperial experimentation and human brutality.
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Pantry and palate : remembering and rediscovering Acadian food
\"What is Acadian food? It is humble, homey, and comforting. It is made with love and devotion from a larder that is small but mighty, and holds history within itself. And it is made to be eaten. In Pantry and Palate, journalist Simon Thibault explores his Acadian roots by scouring old family recipes, ladies' auxiliary cookbooks, and folk wisdom for 50 of the best-loved recipes of Acadians past and present. Recipes run the gamut, from the art of pickling beets to old-fashioned foodways such as rendering lard and cooking with head cheese, to Acadian staples like Classic French Canadian Tourtière and Seafood Chowder, and a delicious roster of desserts from Rhubarb Custard Pie to Acadian Panna Cotta. Including essays celebrating the stories behind the recipes, a foreword by bestselling author Naomi Duguid (Taste of Persia), and photos by noted food photographer Noah Fecks (The Up South Cookbook), Pantry and Palate is magnifique from page to plate.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Something of a Peasant Paradise?
Were Acadians better off than their rural counterparts in old regime France? Did they enjoy a Golden Age? To what degree did a distinct Acadian identity emerge before the wars and deportations of the mid-eighteenth century? In Something of a Peasant Paradise?, Gregory Kennedy compares Acadie in North America with a region of western France, the Loudunais, from which a number of the colonists originated. Kennedy considers the natural environment, the role of the state, the economy, the seigneury, and local governance in each place to show that similarities between the two societies have been greatly underestimated or ignored. The Acadian colonists and the people of the Loudunais were frontier peoples, with dispersed settlement patterns based on kin groups, who sought to make the best use of the land and to profit from trade opportunities. Both societies were hierarchical, demonstrated a high degree of political agency, and employed the same institutions of local governance to organize their affairs and negotiate state demands. Neither group was inherently more prosperous, egalitarian, or independent-minded than the other. Rather, the emergence of a distinct Acadian identity can be traced to the gradual adaptation of traditional methods, institutions, and ideas to their new environmental and political situations. A compelling comparative analysis based on archival evidence on both sides of the Atlantic, Something of a Peasant Paradise? Challenges the traditional historiography and demonstrates that Acadian society shared many of its characteristics with other French rural societies of the period.
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Line Fishing in the Myette Point Houseboat Community: James Reitter and Jim Delahoussaye
This article discusses the occupational folklife of a Cajun community living on the Atchafalaya River Basin in southern Louisiana. Through personal interviews, members of the Myette Point houseboat community share stories of their unique livelihood. Detailing tools, techniques, and environmental knowledge of river-basin fishing acquired through experiences and oral narratives, the people of this community embraced a way of life that is virtually nonexistent in modern America. KEYWORDS: fishing; occupational folklore; Atchafalaya Basin; Cajun; Louisiana
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Anxious hearts : a novel
In alternate chapters, retells events of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, Evangeline, and relates a modern-day tale of Maine teens who were childhood friends and later grew to love one another, and who, when pulled apart, are determined to reunite.
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Creating an Inclusive Definition for High Users of Inpatient Hospital Systems That Considers Different Levels of Rurality
Multiple definitions have been used to identify individuals who are high system users (HSUs), through economic costs, frequency of use, or length of stay for inpatient care users. However, no definition has been validated to be representative of those residing in rural communities, who face unique service accessibility. This paper identifies an HSU definition for rural Canada that is inclusive of various levels of rurality, longitudinal patient experiences, and types of hospitalizations experienced. This study utilized the 2011 Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohort (CanCHEC) linkage profile to assess hospitalization experiences between 1 January 2009 and 31 December 2013. A range of common HSU indicators were compared using Cox proportional hazards modelling for multiple periods of assessment and types of admissions. The preferred definition for rural HSUs was individuals who are in the 90th percentile of unplanned hospitalization episodes for 2 of 3 consecutive years. This approach is innovative in that it includes longitudinal hospital experiences and multiple types of hospitalizations and assesses an individual’s rurality as a point of context for analysis, rather than a characteristic. These differences provide an opportunity for community characteristic needs assessment and subsequent adjustments to policy development and resource allocation to meet each rural community’s specific needs.
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DNA metabarcoding of nestling feces reveals provisioning of aquatic prey and resource partitioning among Neotropical migratory songbirds in a riparian habitat
Riparian habitats are characterized by substantial flows of emergent aquatic insects that cross the stream-forest interface and provide an important source of prey for insectivorous birds. The increased availability of prey arising from aquatic subsidies attracts high densities of Neotropical migratory songbirds that are thought to exploit emergent aquatic insects as a nestling food resource; however, the prey preferences and diets of birds in these communities are only broadly understood. In this study, we utilized DNA metabarcoding to investigate the extent to which three syntopic species of migratory songbirds—Acadian Flycatcher, Louisiana Waterthrush, and Wood Thrush—breeding in Appalachian riparian habitats (Pennsylvania, USA) exploit and partition aquatic prey subsidies as a nestling food resource. Despite substantial differences in adult foraging strategies, nearly every nestling in this study consumed aquatic taxa, suggesting that aquatic subsidies are an important prey resource for Neotropical migrants nesting in riparian habitats. While our results revealed significant interspecific dietary niche divergence, the diets of Acadian Flycatcher and Wood Thrush nestlings were strikingly similar and exhibited significantly more overlap than expected. These results suggest that the dietary niches of Neotropical migrants with divergent foraging strategies may converge due to the opportunistic provisioning of non-limiting prey resources in riparian habitats. In addition to providing the first application of DNA metabarcoding to investigate diet in a community of Neotropical migrants, this study emphasizes the importance of aquatic subsidies in supporting breeding songbirds and improves our understanding of how anthropogenic disturbances to riparian habitats may negatively impact long-term avian conservation.
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