{"id":4180,"date":"2012-05-14T18:15:01","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T18:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/?p=4180"},"modified":"2012-05-14T18:15:01","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T18:15:01","slug":"prof-langford-teaches-manhattanville-students-about-franco-american-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/2012\/05\/14\/prof-langford-teaches-manhattanville-students-about-franco-american-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof Langford Teaches Manhattanville Students about Franco-American Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4182\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4182\" style=\"width: 458px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4182\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/files\/2012\/05\/French-class1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/files\/2012\/05\/French-class1.jpg 458w, https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/files\/2012\/05\/French-class1-300x132.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4182\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students in Professor Andoveloniaina Rasolofo\u2019s French linguistics class at New York\u2019s Manhattanville College, listening to Dr. Langford.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On May 1, French linguistics students at Manhattanville College in New York had their first encounter with Cheshire County\u2019s Franco-Americans, via the wizardry of Skype.<\/p>\n<p>From her office in Morrison Hall, <strong>Professor Margaret Langford<\/strong> delivered her interactive PowerPoint lecture, <em>An Invisible Presence: The Franco-Americans in New England<\/em> (<em>Une Pr\u00e9sence invisible: Les Franco-Americans de la Nouvelle Angleterre<\/em>), to Professor Andoveloniaina Rasolofo\u2019s students and guests at Manhattanville. Dr. Langford explained to her audience how more than 900,000 French-Canadians (Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois) immigrated to the United States, primarily coming to New England and upper-state New York, from the mid 1800s to well into the 1930s, and that many of their descendants still abide there. Using the Franco-American experience in Cheshire County, New Hampshire as a model, Dr. Langford examined the question: \u201cWhy don\u2019t we know more about the Franco-Americans today, despite their significant numbers and contributions?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy students and I learned a lot about a topic that is seldom discussed,\u201d explained Professor Rosolofo.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Langford found it \u201can exhilarating experience!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 1, French linguistics students at Manhattanville College in New York had their first encounter with Cheshire County\u2019s Franco-Americans, via the wizardry of Skype. From her office in Morrison Hall, Professor Margaret Langford delivered her interactive PowerPoint lecture, An Invisible Presence: The Franco-Americans in New England (Une Pr\u00e9sence invisible: Les Franco-Americans de la Nouvelle &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/2012\/05\/14\/prof-langford-teaches-manhattanville-students-about-franco-american-experience\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Prof Langford Teaches Manhattanville Students about Franco-American Experience<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":4182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[432],"class_list":["post-4180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-faculty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4180"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4185,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4180\/revisions\/4185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}