Entertainments at Taverns & Long Rooms in New England, 1700-1900
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Entertainments at Taverns & Long Rooms in New England, 1700-1900
This publication is a collection of papers presented in June 2019 addressing the subject Entertainments at Taverns and Long Rooms in New England, 1700-1900. This publication consists of four topics: Entertainers and Performers of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; Consuming Beverages; Tavern Architecture; and Dancing and Lecture Programs. Each of the papers presented discussed a particular theme under one of these topics.
The following is the title and author of each paper: Theatricals in Taverns in the Early Nineteenth Century: From John Rannie to Richard Potter and Beyond by John A. Hodgson, How to Amuse Alehouse Patrons in 1750: An Inventory of Richard Brickell’s Effects by Peter Benes, Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Tavern Entertainments: Acrobats and Actors, Menageries and Magic by Robert A. Olson and Caroline F. Sloat, Before Barnum: Museums in Central and Western New York, 1820s-1830s by Paul E. Johnson, “I treated them with some lemon punch…”: Social Drinking in the Eighteenth-Century Tavern by Donald R. Friary, Exploring Barnard Tavern: Traditional Architecture for Commercial Use by Eric Gradoia, Social Dancing in Eighteenth-Century Portsmouth by Jeffrey R. Hopper, Phrenology and Head Readings as a New England Sideshow in the Late 1800s by Kimberly R. Smith.
