Bibliograph

New England celebrates, spectacle, commemoration, and festivity, editor: Peter Benes

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Label

New England celebrates, spectacle, commemoration, and festivity, editor: Peter Benes

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-221)

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

New England celebrates

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

50145858

Responsibility statement

editor: Peter Benes

Series statement

Annual proceedings Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, 2000

Sub title

spectacle, commemoration, and festivity

Table Of Contents

Night processings: 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 tavern-keepers and the New Hampshire provincial government / Marcia Schmidt Blaine -- Women tavern keepers in the Connecticut River Valley, 1750-1810 / Anne Digan Lanning

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