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The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife
sponsored by Historic Deerfield, Inc.
Let the Games Begin: Sports and
Recreation in New England
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, June 20–22, 2014
Deerfield, Massachusetts
The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife
P.O. Box 321 Deerfield, MA 01342
Let the Games Begin: Sports and Recreation in New
England is a three-day conference of eighteen
lectures and demonstrations on the subject of the
region’s recreational and sports history from 1620
to 1930. The program begins with lectures on the
origin and political role of American football, on
the invention of basketball, on the beginnings
of baseball and its audiences, and on the story
of college athletics and of Fenway Park. Other
sessions address competitive and calling dances,
toys and board games, and sports uniforms. The
conference concludes on Sunday with sessions
on snowshoe clubs, canoe-making, recreational
fishing, boxing, and bicycling.
The Seminar is designed for sports fans, educators, historians, collectors, authors,
librarians, and museum curators; students and the general public are cordially invited
to attend. A selected and edited transcript of this conference will appear as the 2014
Annual Proceedings of the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife to be issued about
two years after the conference. Past Seminar Proceedings and publications by program
speakers will be available at the conference.
The thirty-ninth annual meeting of the Dublin Seminar series, Let the Games Begin:
Sports and Recreation in New England, will take place on the weekend of June 20
through 22, 2014, at the Garonzik Auditorium, Koch Science Center, Deerfield
Academy, in Deerfield, Massachusetts. The lecture program will begin at 7:00 P.M. on
Friday evening and will continue until approximately 11:30 A.M. on Sunday. Lunch
and dinner will be provided on Saturday, June 21; coffee and doughnuts will be served
each morning. Optional dormitory accommodations beginning Friday afternoon will
be available at Bement School, Deerfield. Optional discounted museum admission to
Historic Deerfield, valid from Thursday, June 19, to Monday, June 23, may be purchased
in advance.
LECTURE PROGRAM
Friday evening, June 20, 7:00 p.m.
Football
Brian D. Bunk, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst
New England’s Football Heritage
J. L. Bell, Boston1775.net
Political Football: The Signification of Rough
Sport in Military-Occupied Boston
Saturday morning, June 21, 9:00 a.m.
Basketball
Rebecca A. R. Edwards, Rochester Institute of
Technology
Jump Ball: Basketball in Early 20th Century
Southeastern Connecticut
Baseball
Robert Haner, Norwich University
The Beginnings of Baseball
Rick Stattler, Swann Auction Galleries, N.Y.
“Utterly Stuck on their Team”: Early Baseball
Spectators in Providence
Sports Venues
Richard A. Johnson, The Sports Museum,
Boston
The Hidden History of Fenway Park, 1912–1944
Seth Meehan, Boston College
Athletics in the Making of Catholic Gentlemen
and American Catholics at Boston College
Saturday afternoon, June 21, 2:00 p.m.
Dance Competitions, Dance Callers
April F. Masten, Stony Brook University
“Man and money ready”: Challenge Dancing in
Antebellum America
Susan M. de Guardiola, Independent Scholar,
New Haven, Connecticut
“Let the figures be simple”: The
Professionalization of the 19th-Century
Ballroom
Games for Children
Laura E. Wasowicz, American Antiquarian
Society
“Divertisements for Young People”: Book-Based
Games and Game-Based Books in 19th-Century
New England
Cheryl A. Harned, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst
Out of the Box: Packaging Other Worlds as Toys
for the 19th Century Imagination
Register for this conference online at www.historic-deerfield.org/dublinseminar, or complete this form. Reservations are limited and will be accepted
in the order received and must arrive on or before June 10, 2014. Advance
registrations are refundable, less $10 handling, if returned before June 10, 2014.
Scholarship requests must be made by May 23, 2014.
Saturday evening, June 21, 7:30 p.m.
Sports Uniforms
Frances E. Davey, Florida Gulf Coast
University
“Amusing and Atrocious”: Gymnastics Uniforms
and the Creation of the Smith College Student
Body
Name
Camille M. Breeze, Museum Textile
Services, Andover, Massachusetts
Preserving Historic New England Sports
Uniforms
Phone
Demonstration of Period Baseball
Equipment by Rick Stattler
Sunday morning, June 22, 9:00 a.m.
Pastoral Recreations
Mehmed Ali, University of Massachusetts,
Lowell
Les Raquetteurs! Community Power and
Connectivity in the French Snowshoe Clubs of
New England
PJ Carlino, Boston University
Working-Class Sporting Leisure in a New
England Mill Town, 1890–1920
Amanda C. Isaac, George Washington’s
Mount Vernon
Fishing Ladies and Sporting Gentlemen:
Recreational Fishing in Colonial New England
Urban Recreations
Christopher Klein, Independent Scholar,
Andover, Massachusetts
John L. Sullivan: The First Sports Superstar
Sam D. Shupe, Boston University
A Horse You Do Not Have to Feed: Bicycles and
Public Parks in Portland, Maine, 1880–1900
Mail to:
Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife
Registration, Historic Deerfield, Inc., P.O.
Box 321, Deerfield, MA 01342
Phone: Julie Orvis, (413)775-7179
E-mail: [email protected]
Online: www.historic-deerfield.org/
dublin-seminar
Fax (with credit card payment):
(413) 775-7220
(Please make checks payable to Historic
Deerfield, Inc. )
ADVANCE REGISTRATION
Organization
Address
Call Julie Orvis, Special Events
Coordinator, Historic Deerfield, to
register or ask logistical questions: (413)
775-7179.
City/State/Zip
E-mail
FEES
Registration
Registration for lecture program, June 20 through 22,
including lunch and dinner on Saturday, June 21.
m Full registration: $160
m Dublin Seminar member: $145
(must add membership below)
m Student registration: $120
Please indicate school and year of graduation:
For program questions, call Peter
Benes at: (978) 369-7382.
Abstracts and Scholarship Request
mPlease send me e-mail abstracts of speakers’ papers.
m I wish to apply for a scholarship to attend the conference. My resumé and one letter of recommendation are
enclosed.
Total Enclosed: $
Please make checks payable to Historic Deerfield, Inc. or
pay by credit card:
mAmex
Dublin Seminar Annual Membership
m $30
Members receive topic, conference, and publication
announcements; a copy of the current Annual Proceedings;
$15 discount on conference fee, and 10 percent discount on
all Seminar publications purchased at the conference.
mMC
mVisa
Card #:
Exp. Date:
Sec. Code:
Cardholder Name:
Optional Housing
(space very limited, reserve early)
Double occupancy housing at Bement School dormitory
$70/night, $25/night single-room surcharge (linens &
pillow provided; rooms have AC and WiFi)
m Fri., June 20 ($70)
m Sat., June 21 ($70)
m Single-room surcharge: $25/night
Name of desired roommate, if requesting double occupancy:
(if none requested, one will be assigned)
Optional Museum Pass
mReduced-rate ticket to Historic Deerfield,
Thursday, June 19, through Monday, June 23
(must be reserved in advance). $5
Scholarship Fund
m Donation to scholarship fund.
Funds will be applied to applications received this year. Any leftover scholarship
money will be applied to this purpose in 2015.
The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife is a continuing series of
conferences, exhibitions, and publications whose purpose is to explore
everyday life, work, and culture in New England’s past. Founded on
the premise that traditional lore and material folk culture are rapidly
disappearing in New England, the series focuses attention on emerging
areas of folk studies, regional and local history, cultural geography,
historical archaeology, and vernacular and antiquarian studies.
Conferences are held in June or July of each year with concurrent
exhibitions at participating museums and art galleries. Selected and
edited transcripts of papers presented at Dublin Seminar conferences
are published each year as the Annual Proceedings. Catalogues of
exhibitions accompanying Dublin Seminar conferences are published
separately. Dublin Seminar conferences are offered in conjunction with
Historic Deerfield. Past Seminar topics and a current list of publications
for sale may be consulted at the conference website,
www.historic-deerfield.org/dublin-seminar.