Intended for all, Growing Up Franco-American (with no black patent leather shoes) is the intriguing story of courageous grandparent and parent immigrants who, at once, heartily embraced their new country, the United States, yet remained inherently true to many of their cherished Old World cultural traditions -- all as transmitted to, an perceived by -- one of their first-generation American children, author Lorraine Dutile Masure. Acting as a cultural tour guide, she here tells stories of what it was really like growing up with a rich Franco heritage across multiple venues of home, family, church, school, and other settings. Seniors also will see themselves in her stories. And younger people will be amazed at how quaint life was not so long ago. Informative and, as the author reflects back through the rear-view mirror of her own life, some of it's pretty comical too! Lorraine Dutile Masure, a former university administrator, has lived in Maine most of her 83 years with a salty ardor she avows as incontrovertible! While this is her first attempt at "book writing," she has been published a number of times locally, regionally, and -- as a mere twenty-year old -- by a national trade magazine. She is proud to tell you she graduated from Nasson College in Maine (B.A., English) and The University of Southern Maine (M.S., Adult Education). Lorraine joyfully enjoys presenting paraphrases of this book, Growing Up Franco-American..., and leads Senior College classes about Broadway musicals. Her son, Christopher, is pursuing his Ph. D. in Communications while she enjoys life in Maine -- often penning observations of a more current nature under the supervision of her minou, Molly.