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New England Celebrates: Spectacle, Commemoration, and Festivity

The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife
Annual Proceedings
23 through 25 June 2000

CONTENTS

SECTION I. PROCESSIONS

Night Processions: Celebrating the Gunpowder Plot in England and New England
Peter Benes

“The Floral Architect”: Rules and Designs for Processions
Paige W. Roberts

SECTION II. CENTENNIALS AND BICENTENNIALS

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. Baenen

SECTION III. COMMENCEMENTS AND MILITIA TRAININGS

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

SECTION IV. MARKETING AN IMAGINED PAST

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

SECTION V. CELEBRATIONS OF PLACE

“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

SECTION VI. WOMEN AND NEW ENGLAND TAVERNS

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

BIBLIOGRAPHY

NOTES

Conference Program, 23 through 25 June 2000
Abstracts of Conference Papers Not Appearing in This Volume
Photograph and Illustration Credits
Notes on Contributors