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

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 / RRichard M. Candee -- "The celebration not partisam": 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 pagentry 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

Boston : Boston University, c2002

2002

224 p. : ill. ; cm.

Bibliography: p. 215-221