Life on the Streets and Commons

Life on the Streets and Commons, 1600 to the Present
Historic Deerfield, Deerfield, Massachusetts
Saturday, June 18, 2005

'Life on the Streets and Commons, 1600 to the Present' is a one-day
conference on street life and places of public assembly in New England. The
conference opens Saturday morning with papers on street professions as they
were practiced in the colonial and early national period, given by
specialists in popular broadsides, religious proselytizing, law enforcement,
and outdoor or tavern medicine. It continues Saturday afternoon with the
social and religious conflict that occurred on the road and in town commons.
It concludes with an assessment of meeting halls and displays of Egyptian
artifacts.

The Seminar is designed for educators, historians, collectors, dealers,
authors, and museum curators; students and the general public are cordially
invited to attend. Past Seminar Proceedings and publications by program
speakers will be available for purchase at the conference.

Selected and edited transcripts of conference papers will appear as the 2005
Annual Proceedings of the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, which
will be issued about one year after the conference.


LECTURE PROGRAM

Opening Remarks

Street Professions

Purveyor to the Peddlers: Nathaniel Coverly, Jr., Printer of Songs for the
Streets of Boston
Kate Van Winkle Keller, Society for American Music

Street Religion in Central and Eastern Massachusetts before 1830
Peter Benes, Dublin Seminar

"I Never Used to Go Out with a Weapon": Law Enforcement on the Streets of
Pre-Revolutionary Boston
J. L. Bell, Friends of the Longfellow House

Doctors in the Streets: Medicine as Public Performance in Nineteenth-Century
New England
Anú King Dudley, University of Maine

Roads and Commons

Shakers and the Public Roads: Burdens and Blessings, 1780-1875
Glendyne Wergland, Dalton, Massachusetts

Commotions on Meetinghouse Hill
W. Michael Ryan, Northampton District Court:

"Fair New England": Displaying the Region at The Eastern State Exposition
Anthony J. Antonucci, Maine Historical Society

Halls and Taverns

>From "Bolshevik Hall" to Butterfly Ballroom: The Assimilation of South
Norwood's Lithuanian Hall
Patricia J. Fanning, Bridgewater State College

Admission 25 cent, Children Half-Price: Exhibiting Egyptian Mummies in Early
Nineteenth Century New England
S. J. Wolfe, American Antiquarian Society, and Robert Singerman, University
of Florida


ADVANCE REGISTRATION
Reservations are limited and will be accepted in the order received and must
arrive on or before June 10, 2005. Advance registrations
are refundable, less $5 handling, if returned before June 10, 2005.

Mail to:
Peter Benes
Director, Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife
Boston University Scholarly Publications
985 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston MA 02215

Phone: 978/369-7382
Fax: 978/369-5962
E-mail: dublsem@bu.edu