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The Best Ever!

Parades in New England, 1788-1940

Jane C Nylander author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bauhan (William L.),U.S.

Published:28th Dec '21

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Parades tell us something important about American culture and almost every place has a parade tradition. The Best Ever! explores this tradition as enacted in the small cities and towns of New England, events that at once celebrated the skeleton of the American Story and amplified both the distinctive regional and the broader national cultures. Meticulously documented and lavishly illustrated with nearly 300 photographs, The Best Ever! offers never-before-seen pictures of actual parades, including floats and banners that have mostly disappeared and ranging from the Federal Ship carried in the 1788 Ratification parade at New Haven, Connecticut, to 1940 when the parade tradition largely halted at the onset of WWII. Copublished with Old Sturbridge Village.

ISBN: 9780872333451

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

384 pages