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Different_Ad7655 t1_jd352af wrote

Reply to comment by wojtekthesoldierbear in French towns in the Northeast? by wojtekthesoldierbear

Just stay on the highway and don't go exploring through a more rural crossing. Perhaps entry into Canada is easy this way but wow I got the third degree coming back over the two lane crossing near richford Vermont in the Northeast Kingdom. Took me more than an hour of searching and I was the only car. Stay on 89.

Manchester still has French parishes but it is rare that you still hear it on the street anymore as it was in the '60s when I was growing up. I know plenty that speak French but do not use it anymore.. Better luck if you go all the way up to Berlin, more isolated. But yes others have stated at that point just go to Quebec

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Pattmommy t1_jd3xp7q wrote

We were in Chez Vachon this morning in Manchester and there was a table of older men speaking anglicised French like my mother used to speak when I was growing up in Maine. It was pretty nostalgic to hear.

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Different_Ad7655 t1_jd4e7l1 wrote

Yep that's still a pretty good hot spot to catch a little French, maybe in pinardville too, or maybe Saco Biddeford, right?

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