LEWISTON — The Franco-American Heritage Center has received a planning grant from the Maine Humanities Council to showcase one of their future collaborative exhibits. Bates College, St. Mary’s Hospital and the Franco Center are considering an interactive, bilingual or multibilingual exhibit on collected stories of the Franco-American experience. It would provide community enrichment, capture history and open new scholarship ground.

The committee will be meeting to plan the contents and design the area where the exhibit is to be located. The actual project is not expected to be completed until next summer.

The members of the committee are: professor Mary-Rice DeFosse, board member of the Franco-American Heritage Center; Annette Bourque, marketing director at St. Mary’s Hospital; Peter McCarthy, a senior at Bates College; Susan P. Hudson, author of “The Quiet Revolutionaries, How the Grey Nuns Changed the Social Welfare Paradigm of Lewiston, Maine”; James Cassidy, CEO of St. Mary’s Hospital; Rita Dube, executive director of the Franco-American Heritage Center; and Marguerite Stapleton and Sheila McDonald of the Maine State Museum.