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New England celebrates : spectacle, commemoration, and festivity / editor: Peter Benes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife (25rd : 2000 : Deerfield, Mass.)
- Series:
- Annual proceedings (Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife) ; 2000.
- Annual proceedings (Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pageants--New England--Congresses.
- Pageants.
- Manners and customs.
- New England--Social life and customs--Congresses.
- New England.
- New England--Centennial celebrations, etc--Congresses.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 224 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- [Boston] : Published by Boston University, [2002]
- Contents:
- Night processions: celebrating the gunpowder plot in England and New England / Peter Benes
- "The Floral architect": rules and designs for processions / Paige W. Roberts
- The 1823 "centennial" celebration of New Hampshire's settlement / Richard M. Candee
- "The celebration not partisan": Portsmouth and the 1856 centennial of printing in New Hampshire / Michael A. Baenan
- John Pierce's pitch pipe: music and myth-construction in early national celebrations / Richard J. Bell
- Questioning authority: the June training of the University Invincibles / John Thomas
- Historical pageantry in Old Deerfield: 1910, 1913, 1916 / Angela Goebel Bain
- Something to admire: cultural nationalism, symbolic dissonance and the Fourth of July in New England's Canadian borderlands, 1840-1870 / Andrew C. Holman
- "No harvest of oil": Nantucket's agricultural fairs, 1856-1890 / Aimee E. Newell
- Mountain christenings: landscape and memory in Edward Hitchcock's New England / Karen Halttunen
- The Boston Board of Trade transcontinental railway excursion of 1870 / Carol R. Kanis
- Entertaining the government: female taven-keepers and the New Hampshire provincial government / Marcia Schmidt Blaine
- Women tavern-keepers in the Connecticut River Valley, 1750-1810 / Anne Digan Lanning.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-221).
- OCLC:
- 50145858
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