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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

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.

Two pictures with my new book, Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America. On the left, perched on a curving railing in front of a classic limestone building-- the JCB Library, and on the right on a wooden table next to a small scruffy white dog with brown eye patches and one brown ear. No, she really shouldn't be on the table!

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Beth Folsom @herstorian24.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

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

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Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife @dublinseminar.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

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.

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Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife @dublinseminar.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Third act driven by collector William Guthman, asking to buy the retrieved powder horn from the Putnam heirs. Sale in 1988. Finally sold/donated to Historic Deerfield in 21st century. #DubSem2025

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Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife @dublinseminar.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Second act in the Putnam horn’s history was as a family heirloom. Subject of the earliest drawing of a powder horn design. Then displayed, including at Centennial Expo. Loaned to Ohio Historical Society in 1934, lost by 1970s. #DubSem2025

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Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife @dublinseminar.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

#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.

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Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife @dublinseminar.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

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.

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Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife @dublinseminar.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Falk analyzes a Mohawk Valley chest labeled Jacob Kniskern 1778—probably not the date of making, but a dire year being remembered. Two nieces born 1775 were likewise given chests marked 1778. Likewise, the Petrie sisters got chests marked 1775—not their birth or marriage years. #DubSem2025

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Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife @dublinseminar.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

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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Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife @dublinseminar.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Barbara Rimkunas reports that Revolutionary War veterans headed most black households in Exeter, NH, in the 1790s, but there was little first-hand information about them. Had to work through accounts from older white people. #DubSem2025

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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

"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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I've Never Seen Anything

How could the Jedi Order vanish from public memory in less than a generation?

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Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife @dublinseminar.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Next, David Naumec tells #DubSem2025 about seeking to recover stories of Revolutionary War veterans of color at Historic New England sites. Getting around cliché lore, some of which might even turn out to be reliable.

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Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife @dublinseminar.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

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.

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Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife @dublinseminar.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

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.

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Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife @dublinseminar.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

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

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Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife @dublinseminar.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

The 1925 Lexington pageant, written by Sidney Howard, starts with the local battle but continues thru the full Founding, expansion, Abolitionism, and the labor movement (but not the Communist Revolution!). Freedom pushes forward into the future. #DubSem2025

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Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife @dublinseminar.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

By staging the pageant in an amphitheater, Lexington could recreate the landscape of 1775 that had been overwritten in the center of town. #DubSem2025

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Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife @dublinseminar.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

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

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Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife @dublinseminar.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

One major priority in marking the “Knox Trail” in the 1920s was to create a driving route. That meant deviating from what the commission’s expert thought was the most likely route. New York revised its trail in 1975 based on more research. Further sites might deserve recognition. #DubSem2025

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Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife @dublinseminar.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

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.

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Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife @dublinseminar.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

The crowd was not expecting to see a photograph of John Paul Jones taken 110+ years after he died. #DubSem2025

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Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife @dublinseminar.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

#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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Beth Folsom @herstorian24.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Had a wonderful day yesterday at the @dublinseminar.bsky.social - so many smart, thoughtful folks doing such great work. Looking forward to Day 2!

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Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife @dublinseminar.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

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.”

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Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife @dublinseminar.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Just a little discussion of how the men who started the Bunker Hill Monument couldn’t get it up, and women had to come to help. #DubSem2025

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Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife @dublinseminar.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

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.

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Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife @dublinseminar.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Buell’s scrapbook was itself a scrap, an unfilled account book from the 1830s. She first inventoried her own collection of antiques, then who came to see them. Eventually included fabric samples and clippings, sewn over original accounts. #DubSem2025

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Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife @dublinseminar.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

#DubSem2025 resumes with Mariah Kupfner’s analysis of Sophia Buell’s scrapbook and other collections of fragments deemed meaningful because of their Revolutionary connections.

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Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife @dublinseminar.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Cambridge’s Centennial celebration in 1875 and the 250th of English settlement in 1680 were tinged by that generation’s memory of fighting in the Civil War. Writers tied those causes together while overlooking African-Americans. #DubSem2025

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Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife @dublinseminar.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Cambridge was central in the Revolutionary War’s first year. In 1875 it tried to be an equal partner with Lexington & Concord, then emphasized General Washington [supposedly] taking command on July 3 on Cambridge common. #DubSem2025

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Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife @dublinseminar.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

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.)

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Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife @dublinseminar.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Around 1970 a formal vote of directors at the Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum ended the portrayal of “ghostly” things at the house. #DubSem2025

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Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife @dublinseminar.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

#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.

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Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife @dublinseminar.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Lexington hosted a “sham fight” reenacting the April 19, 1775, skirmish on the town common in 1822. Some actual veterans of the start of the Revolutionary War participated.

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Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife @dublinseminar.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

As a true son of Concord, David Wood sings some of “The Concord Hymn” to us at #DubSem2025. He glosses “embattled” as drawn up for battle rather than besieged.

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Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife @dublinseminar.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

#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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J. L. Bell @boston1775.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

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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J. L. Bell @boston1775.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Doorways at Historic Deerfield from this morning’s walking tour.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

The authoritarian assault on higher education continues - UVA and Harvard have to hold the line www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u...

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University of Virginia President Under Pressure From Trump’s D.O.J. to Resign

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Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife @dublinseminar.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

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.)

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Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife @dublinseminar.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

What do the origin stories of the Bunker Hill Monument, the Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum in Hadley, and the Henry Knox Trail reveal about how we remember our national origin story? Join us in Deerfield on June 27–28 to discuss “Recalling the Revolution”: dublin-seminar.org/our-2025-con...

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Our 2025 Conference: “Recalling the Revolution in New England”

“Tercentenary, Paul Revere’s ride.” September 15, 1930. Boston Public Library. The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife’s 2025 gathering, Recalling the Revolution in New England, will …

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Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife @dublinseminar.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Just checking the weather forecast for June 27–28, the days of our conference. Highs in the 70s! Good for meeting in Historic Deerfield’s community center and visiting the historic buildings. And on Friday there are optional walking tours of the Revolutionary town. dublin-seminar.org/our-2025-con...

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Our 2025 Conference: “Recalling the Revolution in New England”

“Tercentenary, Paul Revere’s ride.” September 15, 1930. Boston Public Library. The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife’s 2025 gathering, Recalling the Revolution in New England, will …

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Gravestones of New England @gravestones-ne.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Gravestone of Jeremiah Wilson, 1743, at Old Common Burial Ground in Lancaster, Massachusetts. Carved by Jonathan Worcester.

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Frank Cogliano @frankcogliano.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

I've been in this racket for a while. One of the most enjoyable experiences I've had was an afternoon discussing the American Revolution with @pattonoswalt.bsky.social & @gregjenner.bsky.social for an episode of You're Dead to Me which will air on Radio 4 at 10:00 on July 5 (+ a longer podcast).

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

I am laughing so hard because when does a scholar think they’ve earned the right to call him “Tom Paine,” when so many still go with “Thomas.”

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Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife @dublinseminar.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

J. L. Bell, co-chair of our conference program committee this year, is getting into the “Recalling the Revolution” theme with an online presentation for Old North Church called “The Ghost of Major John Pitcairn” on Tuesday, June 24, at 7pm: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-ghost-...

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The Ghost of Major John Pitcairn

Join us on Zoom for a conversation with historian J.L. Bell about the death of Major John Pitcairn and the mystery surrounding his burial.

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Marla At Large @marlaatlarge.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

So excited that Seminar week is here! If you can’t be with us in Deerfield this weekend, note that recordings for registrants are available on demand for the month following the Seminar! #AmRev250 #Publichistory

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B Haley @ghastlyfop.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Still time to register for the @dublinseminar.bsky.social this Friday/Saturday! Come hear me speak about the “real” Knox Trail. What’s that? Come find out. www.historic-deerfield.org/dublinseminar/

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The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife - Historic Deerfield

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