Old Orchard Beach, Maine. Was always a vacation Mecca for Québec. Kinda honytonk. Kinda like Blackpool in the UK. There's even a pier. The Québec construction trades traditionally shut down for the last two weeks of July, and a significant portion of people still head for Old Orchard, la. It is also close by the mill town of Biddeford, Maine which was a big Franco town from 1860s-1960s when the textile mills were in full gear. There was a lot of French spoken on the beach at Old Orchard. And before it was Québéc-sur-la-mer, it was an Irish-American destination: Joe Kennedy met Rose Fitzgerald at Old Orchard, hostie. See our posts on Biddeford:
https://autoliterate.blogspot.com/2014/05/textile-town-biddeford-maine-part-1.html
https://autoliterate.blogspot.com/2014/05/textile-town-biddeford-part-2-houses.html
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