Lucien Rancourt Interview

Authors

Julie Hardacker
Rose Hamilton

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Description

Lucien Rancourt was born in Lewiston in 1904. At 14, he left school at the end of seventh grade, following the death of his father and facing the prospect of going back to sixth grade. Over the following sixty-plus years he worked in many different shoe shops, primarily in Auburn. He was present for the great shoe shop strike of 1937. In this interview he talks about his work and the unions.

Duration

01:08:31

Publication Date

4-8-1994

City

Lewiston

State

Maine

Keywords

Rancourt, Oral History, Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine

Media Type

Reproduction

Comments

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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