Absolutely LOVED this post, Elaine! "Lurking local Native Americans and the Goddess of liberty" indeed!
Davol's advise that it was "important than to call down the snobbish, superior (so-called) classes of select society who draw their skirts away from the ‘vulgar herd’ from whom they sprung”.
That boy could certainly turn a phrase! Suffice to say, today, he'd be in trouble plenty!
Who knew there was an American Pageant Association? Quite a revelation. The pageant I'm most familiar with is the annual re-enactment of April 19, 1775 on Lexington Green. It has a long history as well.
Absolutely LOVED this post, Elaine! "Lurking local Native Americans and the Goddess of liberty" indeed!
Davol's advise that it was "important than to call down the snobbish, superior (so-called) classes of select society who draw their skirts away from the ‘vulgar herd’ from whom they sprung”.
That boy could certainly turn a phrase! Suffice to say, today, he'd be in trouble plenty!
Thank you, Tom!
We put on a play at Shawsheen school in the early 50s based on Stephen Foster’s life.
I was not familiar with this pageantry except via the circus pageants of roughly the same time. Interesting on so many levels.
Who knew there was an American Pageant Association? Quite a revelation. The pageant I'm most familiar with is the annual re-enactment of April 19, 1775 on Lexington Green. It has a long history as well.