Aroostook immersion tour will bring Acadian history to life

BANGOR DAILY NEWS • May 31, 2026

An Aroostook teacher will bring Acadian culture to life with a weeklong immersion experience next month. “Living Acadia” (or “Acadie Vivante”) workshop will draw educators from across Maine to northern Maine’s St. John Valley, culminating in a public daylong reenactment of early Acadian life on June 27. It’s the first large-scale immersion event of its kind in the St. John Valley, to which many of Maine’s French Acadian descendants can trace their roots. It will coincide with the upcoming 50th anniversary of Van Buren’s Acadian Village, the second-largest such settlement in the U.S.