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George Mendonsa, “The Kissing Sailor,” waves to the crowd gathered along East Main Road for a parade in September 2013 to celebrate Portsmouth’s 375th anniversary.
Mendonsa deserves formal recognition as the ‘Kissing Sailor’
George Mendonsa fought in World War II’s Pacific Theater, fished a lifetime on Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay, remained married to the love of his life for … more
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A view of women coming to Quebec in 1667, in order to be married to the French Canadian farmers. Talon and Laval are waiting for the arrival of the women in this watercolor by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale, 1871-1945.
Most New England French Canadians are descended from daughters of the king
When I run into people with French Canadian ancestry, I always ask if they have discovered an ancestor who was one of les filles du roi. Most don’t know what that is. When I tell them it means … more
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