Description
Ida Levesque, the thirteenth of twenty-one children, came to the United States as a child. Her father, a woodsman, died relatively young, of cancer, and to make ends meet, Ida had to go to leave school at seven - at first to look after her siblings, and later to earn money in the factories.
Duration
01:14:52
Publication Date
4-24-1994
City
Lewiston
State
Maine
Keywords
Levesque, Oral History, Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine
Media Type
Reproduction
Recommended Citation
Interviews and Lectures Collection, Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries.
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Language
English
Comments
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