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