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Voici the Valley Cultureway | Audio Story & Guide
Enrich your experience of the Saint John Valley as you explore its National Cultural Byway!
The Musée, alongside other institutions throughout the Saint John Valley, is thrilled to offer its visitors the Voici the Valley Cultureway Audio Story and Guide. This 80-minute documentary audio story on CD offer stories and oral histories told from Valley families, interviews with historians, discussions with artisans, as well as local traditional music. Paired with this CD is a 28-page pamphlet with details of regional maps, high-quality photographs of landscapes and historical sites, and descriptions of communities and cultural centres.
Voici the Valley celebrates the history, culture and traditions of the Saint John Valley told from the perspectives of its Northern Maine communities, while also highlighting those of its neighbors in New Brunswick. Canadian sites and communities illuminated particularly entail those in Edmundston, Saint-Jacques, Saint-Basile, Saint-Anne-de-Madawaska, Saint-Léonard, Grand Falls, Saint-Hilaire, Baker Brook, Lac Baker, Clair, Connors, and Saint-François-de-Madawaska.
The CD and pamphlet are availabe for purchase at $15 USD. The CD is not geographically oriented, so you can listen to it at any point in your journey along the Byway or wherever you may be!
Efforts are currently underway to migrate the content of the CD to more user-friendly digital formats. All revenue generated by the sale of the CD and guide helps to support the Valley’s National Cultural Byway, otherwise known as the Saint John Valley Cultureway.
Voici the Valley was the culmination of an international historiographic assessment conducted by Sheila Jans, former Senior Fellow with the Québec-Labrador Foundation (QLF), Joseph Donald Cyr, and Daniel Picard. The initiatives behind this project sought to give attention to the culture and landscape of the Saint John Valley, and to tackle social issues particularly salient to the vale, such as the slow erosion of traditions, lack of understanding of the relevance of culture and place, and the attrition of the local French language. Attention to the influences that shape, shift, divide, and mark a place and a culture was pivotal to Voici the Valley.
CultureWorth published the Voici the Valley Cultureway in 2007 through sponsorship by QLF and the Maine Acadian Heritage Council.
Booklets, Periodicals, & Publications
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