"La Bonne Aventure" is a Franco-American children's show featuring puppets, animation and some interviews and footage of real people in New England. The characters in the show speak both French and English. This episode focuses on important people in Franco-American history including Antoine de Cadillac, Peter Faneuil, Robert Cavalier de la Salle, Paul Revere and George Washington.
Collection includes statutes and by-laws, minutes, administrative records, correspondence, financial records and receipts, scholarship records, publications, records of programs and events, and artifacts and ephemera.
Interview includes discussions of: family background; President Johnson’s “War on Poverty”; Model Cities; 1972 presidential campaign; Maine politicians; the “character” of Maine; Paul Couture; John Orestis; 1968 Humphrey-Muskie ticket; Vietnam; Muskie’s 1972 campaign; Manchester Union Leader; Nixon’s “dirty tricks”; Vietnam War; Watergate; and Muskie’s public speaking.
Interview includes discussions of: family background; Lewiston Public Library; Lewiston- Auburn Arts Council; au Canada; Model Cities program; Maine Development Foundation; and Muskie’s impact on Maine.
