New England Celebrates: Spectacle, Commemoration, and Festivity (2000)

The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife Proceedings from 2000. 

Popular, institutional, and agricultural spectacles in New England, 1700 to 1900. Essays on street processions; the vocabulary of parades and festivals; early centennials and bicentennials; commencements and militia trainings; and cross cultural pageantry. Special section on the celebration of the landscape. 224 pp., 41 illustrations, map, bibliography.  Click here to view Table of Contents.