Cote Robbins, Rhea

Rhea Cote Robbins was brought up bilingually in a Franco-American neighborhood in Waterville, Maine known as 'down the Plains.' Her maman came from Wallagrass, a town in the northern part of the state and her father was from Waterville. Tracing the family tree back, on both sides of her parents, she found that in Quebec their people settled in close proximity to each other, and on a further search into their origins in France, she discovered that in the 1600s they lived within ten miles or less of each other. At least three of the branches of the original settlers came over on the same boat to...