Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife
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Annual conference and publication exploring the folklife of New England and the neighboring regions, founded in 1976 and now meeting each summer at Historic Deerfield
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July 7, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Thank you @theotherrbg.bsky.social for my second fav pic of my book cover (left, obv), amazing in front of the @jcblibrary.bsky.social!
And no, #DailyMargaret really should not be on that table.
And no, #DailyMargaret really should not be on that table.
July 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Thank you @theotherrbg.bsky.social for my second fav pic of my book cover (left, obv), amazing in front of the @jcblibrary.bsky.social!
And no, #DailyMargaret really should not be on that table.
And no, #DailyMargaret really should not be on that table.
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Excited to start my new read, especially after hearing Zara Anishanslin speak at @dublinseminar.bsky.social this weekend! She was gracious enough to sign her book for my fangirl self 😉 #nerdalert
June 29, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Excited to start my new read, especially after hearing Zara Anishanslin speak at @dublinseminar.bsky.social this weekend! She was gracious enough to sign her book for my fangirl self 😉 #nerdalert
The 2026 Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife will take place on June 26–27 here at Historic Deerfield.
That will be the seminar’s 50th year, so there will be celebrations and reminiscences.
The topic will be how New Englanders have envisioned and shaped the future.
That will be the seminar’s 50th year, so there will be celebrations and reminiscences.
The topic will be how New Englanders have envisioned and shaped the future.
June 28, 2025 at 9:20 PM
The 2026 Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife will take place on June 26–27 here at Historic Deerfield.
That will be the seminar’s 50th year, so there will be celebrations and reminiscences.
The topic will be how New Englanders have envisioned and shaped the future.
That will be the seminar’s 50th year, so there will be celebrations and reminiscences.
The topic will be how New Englanders have envisioned and shaped the future.
#DubSum2025 concludes with Phil Zea diving deep into the story of one object: Israel Putnam’s Nov 10, 1756, powder horn. Probably made by a soldier in Robert’s Rangers for new captain Putnam. Decorated with fortified sites. Putnam might have carried it to Carillon, Havana, and Detroit.
June 28, 2025 at 8:40 PM
#DubSum2025 concludes with Phil Zea diving deep into the story of one object: Israel Putnam’s Nov 10, 1756, powder horn. Probably made by a soldier in Robert’s Rangers for new captain Putnam. Decorated with fortified sites. Putnam might have carried it to Carillon, Havana, and Detroit.
Stephen O’Neill surveys “Drums in the Revolution & Early Republic” thru a material-culture lens. #DubSem2025 Cabinetmaker Robert Crossman of Taunton made two surviving drums, 1739 and 1740.
June 28, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Stephen O’Neill surveys “Drums in the Revolution & Early Republic” thru a material-culture lens. #DubSem2025 Cabinetmaker Robert Crossman of Taunton made two surviving drums, 1739 and 1740.
Our last #DubSem2025 panel, “Objects of Memory,” starts with Cindy Falk on how artist William Murray fashioned family records for people in the Mohawk Valley, records later submitted with pension applications. Murray also painted icons of Continental soldiers into those records.
June 28, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Our last #DubSem2025 panel, “Objects of Memory,” starts with Cindy Falk on how artist William Murray fashioned family records for people in the Mohawk Valley, records later submitted with pension applications. Murray also painted icons of Continental soldiers into those records.
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"Public forgetting, like public memorialization, can have a swift and easy outcome if the forces intent on causing the loss of memory have enough power and put enough effort into the project."
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How could the Jedi Order vanish from public memory in less than a generation?
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June 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
"Public forgetting, like public memorialization, can have a swift and easy outcome if the forces intent on causing the loss of memory have enough power and put enough effort into the project."
After lunch at the Deerfield Inn, #DubSem2025 resumes with Tim Hastings speaking on African-Americans in New Hampshire invoking the memory of the Revolution to promote contemporary freedom/equality. Case study: Pomp Spring (d. 1807), called “President of the African society” in Portsmouth.
June 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
After lunch at the Deerfield Inn, #DubSem2025 resumes with Tim Hastings speaking on African-Americans in New Hampshire invoking the memory of the Revolution to promote contemporary freedom/equality. Case study: Pomp Spring (d. 1807), called “President of the African society” in Portsmouth.
Alexandra Cade shows that the first sheet music celebrating the Bunker Hill Monument in 1836 depicted the obelisk complete, though it wasn’t done till 1843. #DubSem2025 “The Freemen’s Quick Step” from 1840 pictured the tower still in progress at a rally and translated brass band to piano.
June 28, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Alexandra Cade shows that the first sheet music celebrating the Bunker Hill Monument in 1836 depicted the obelisk complete, though it wasn’t done till 1843. #DubSem2025 “The Freemen’s Quick Step” from 1840 pictured the tower still in progress at a rally and translated brass band to piano.
Jim Bennett traces the public readings of the Declaration of Independence in Boston. From the 1880s to 1971 the readers became high schoolers, many from immigrant families. Press coverage celebrated patriotic assimilation. In 1910 the ceremony became a reenactment, barring girls. #DubSem2025
June 28, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Jim Bennett traces the public readings of the Declaration of Independence in Boston. From the 1880s to 1971 the readers became high schoolers, many from immigrant families. Press coverage celebrated patriotic assimilation. In 1910 the ceremony became a reenactment, barring girls. #DubSem2025
Kate Criscitiello now speaks of Lexington’s historical pageants in 1915 and 1925. The first was even filmed. The first commemorated a century of peace with Britain (then at war) while the second was Sesquicentennial. #DubSem2025
June 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Kate Criscitiello now speaks of Lexington’s historical pageants in 1915 and 1925. The first was even filmed. The first commemorated a century of peace with Britain (then at war) while the second was Sesquicentennial. #DubSem2025
At #DubSem2025 Ben Haley reveals there was hardly any interest in Henry Knox’s trek in 1776 until around 1920. A Massachusetts commission started to research the route using other sources on typical travel of the time. Knox’s own diary has sparse info.
June 28, 2025 at 1:43 PM
At #DubSem2025 Ben Haley reveals there was hardly any interest in Henry Knox’s trek in 1776 until around 1920. A Massachusetts commission started to research the route using other sources on typical travel of the time. Knox’s own diary has sparse info.
#DubSem2025 starts today’s session with Gerry Ward of the Portsmouth Historical Society on the man, the myth that was Capt. John Paul Jones. Once he was a household name called the founder of the American navy. Now not even Led Zeppelin keeps his name alive for some young people.
June 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
#DubSem2025 starts today’s session with Gerry Ward of the Portsmouth Historical Society on the man, the myth that was Capt. John Paul Jones. Once he was a household name called the founder of the American navy. Now not even Led Zeppelin keeps his name alive for some young people.
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Had a wonderful day yesterday at the @dublinseminar.bsky.social - so many smart, thoughtful folks doing such great work. Looking forward to Day 2!
June 28, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Had a wonderful day yesterday at the @dublinseminar.bsky.social - so many smart, thoughtful folks doing such great work. Looking forward to Day 2!
We’re back after dinner to hear John Davis of Historic Deerfield introduce Zara Anishanslin, whose #DubSem2025 keynote address will introduce her new book “The Painter’s Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists who Championed the American Revolution.”
June 27, 2025 at 11:05 PM
We’re back after dinner to hear John Davis of Historic Deerfield introduce Zara Anishanslin, whose #DubSem2025 keynote address will introduce her new book “The Painter’s Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists who Championed the American Revolution.”
Sarah J. Purcell speaks at #DubSem2025 about women’s crucial financial contribution to the building of the Bunker Hill Monument and the sale of souvenirs in the mid-1900s.
June 27, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Sarah J. Purcell speaks at #DubSem2025 about women’s crucial financial contribution to the building of the Bunker Hill Monument and the sale of souvenirs in the mid-1900s.
#DubSem2025 resumes with Mariah Kupfner’s analysis of Sophia Buell’s scrapbook and other collections of fragments deemed meaningful because of their Revolutionary connections.
June 27, 2025 at 7:24 PM
#DubSem2025 resumes with Mariah Kupfner’s analysis of Sophia Buell’s scrapbook and other collections of fragments deemed meaningful because of their Revolutionary connections.
Beth Folsom of History Cambridge completes the “Institutions of Memory” panel at #DubSem2025 by discussing how Cambridge commemorated the Centennial in 1876. (She’d planned to cover other anniversaries, but there was so much to explore in just one.)
June 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Beth Folsom of History Cambridge completes the “Institutions of Memory” panel at #DubSem2025 by discussing how Cambridge commemorated the Centennial in 1876. (She’d planned to cover other anniversaries, but there was so much to explore in just one.)
#DubSem2025 continues with Elizabeth Pangburn’s examination of Dr. Henry Huntington’s conversion of his ancestral home into a historic museum. In the mid-1900s he hosted family reunions in where everyone dressed in colonial garb. But simultaneously he remade the house nearly unrecognizably.
June 27, 2025 at 5:51 PM
#DubSem2025 continues with Elizabeth Pangburn’s examination of Dr. Henry Huntington’s conversion of his ancestral home into a historic museum. In the mid-1900s he hosted family reunions in where everyone dressed in colonial garb. But simultaneously he remade the house nearly unrecognizably.
#DubSem2025 begins “Recalling the Revolution” with David Wood of the Concord Museum on “Misremembering April 19th.” Efforts to cement the memory of that day started only a few days later in 1775, but were shaped by shifting contemporary priorities.
June 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
#DubSem2025 begins “Recalling the Revolution” with David Wood of the Concord Museum on “Misremembering April 19th.” Efforts to cement the memory of that day started only a few days later in 1775, but were shaped by shifting contemporary priorities.
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Touring Revolutionary sites at Historic Deerfield. Here we are at the Liberty Pole with a Liberty and Union flag at the top. Deerfield’s original pole was chopped down one night. A witness stone recognizes chattel slavery at the same site. Part of our “Recalling the Revolution” conference.
June 27, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Touring Revolutionary sites at Historic Deerfield. Here we are at the Liberty Pole with a Liberty and Union flag at the top. Deerfield’s original pole was chopped down one night. A witness stone recognizes chattel slavery at the same site. Part of our “Recalling the Revolution” conference.
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Doorways at Historic Deerfield from this morning’s walking tour.
June 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Doorways at Historic Deerfield from this morning’s walking tour.
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The authoritarian assault on higher education continues - UVA and Harvard have to hold the line www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u...
June 27, 2025 at 12:25 AM
The authoritarian assault on higher education continues - UVA and Harvard have to hold the line www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u...
In this anniversary year, military reenactments are a common way of “Recalling the Revolution in New England,” as the title of our June 27–28 conference puts it.
When was the earliest recorded reenactment of the first fight of the Revolutionary War in Lexington?
(Answer coming in a reply.)
When was the earliest recorded reenactment of the first fight of the Revolutionary War in Lexington?
(Answer coming in a reply.)
June 27, 2025 at 2:09 AM
In this anniversary year, military reenactments are a common way of “Recalling the Revolution in New England,” as the title of our June 27–28 conference puts it.
When was the earliest recorded reenactment of the first fight of the Revolutionary War in Lexington?
(Answer coming in a reply.)
When was the earliest recorded reenactment of the first fight of the Revolutionary War in Lexington?
(Answer coming in a reply.)