Life on the streets and commons, 1600 to the present
By: edited by Peter Benes.
Contributors: Benes, Peter.; Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife.
Series: Dublin Seminar for New England Foklife annual proceedings -- v. 30, 2005.; Annual proceedings (Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife) -- 2005.
Publisher: Boston University
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
Subjects: Street life -- New England -- History -- Congresses.; Peddlers and peddling -- New England -- History -- Congresses.; New England -- Customs and practices -- History -- Congresses.; New England -- Social life and customs -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p 170-177).
Table of contents: value: Introduction / Peter Benes and Jane Montague Benes; value: Purveyor to the peddlars : Nathaniel Coverly Jr., printer of songs for the streets of Boston / Kate Van Winkle Keller; value: "Pedlars in divinity" : street religion in Massachusetts and Rhode Island before 1830 / Peter Benes; value: - "I never used to go out with a weapon" : law enforcement on the streets of prerevolutionary Boston / J.L. Bell; value: Doctors in the streets : medicine as public performance in early-nineteenth-century New England / Anu King Dudley; value: "Within the King's lines" : the Long Island letter-book of Prudence Punderson / Patricia Oat-Judge; value: Shakers and the public roads : burdens and blessings, 1780-1875 / Glendyne R. Wergland; value: Commotions on Meetinghouse Hill / W. Michael Ryan; value: From "Bolshevik Hall" to Butterly Ballroom : the assimilation of South Norwood's Lithuanian Hall / Patricia J. Fanning; value: Admission twenty-five cents-children half-price : exhibiting Egyptian mummies on nineteenth-century America / S.J. Wolfe and Robert Singerman; value: Streets in 3-D : early stereography in New England / Jeanne Schinto; value: "Fair New England" : displaying the region at the Eastern State Exposition / Anthony J. Antonucci.