New England at Sea: Maritime Memory and Material Culture

The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife Annual Proceedings 2016 This publication is a collection of papers presented in June of 2016 addressing the subject New England at Sea:  Maritime Memory and Material Culture. This publication consists of five topics:  Memory and Material Culture; Looking Back on Technology and Maritime Economics; Preserving Memory through Songs and Painting; The Experience of Minorities; and Maritime Clothing. Each of the papers presented discussed a particular theme under one of these topics.

The following is the title and author of each paper:  Making Modern and Antimodern Maritime Memories: Gloucester’s Fisheries Diorama at the 1893 Columbian Exposition by W. Jeffrey Bolster, Preserving, Interpreting, and Sailing America’s Icons: USS Constitution and the Charles W. Morgan by Margherita M. Desy, “Their exploits on the ocean wave…might still be handed down”:  The Salem East India Marine Society Museum and Maritime Memory by George Schwartz, Reading the Survival “Log” of the Polly of Boston by Daniel Finamore, Traditional Nineteenth-Century Ship Design:  Half-Models, Mould Lofts, and Horning Poles by Nathan R. Lipfert, A New England Whaler Goes Slaving by Anthony J. Connors, Huzza for the American Navy: The Sea Battles of the War of 1812 in Song and Verse by Caroline F. Sloat, Speed, Technology, and Adventure in Fitz Henry Lane’s Celebrated Ships of the 1840s by Melissa Geisler Trafton, Black Hands, White Profits: The Critical Role Black Laborers Played in Rhode Island’s Maritime Economy, 1750-1800 by Charles R. Foy, What Frederick Douglass Left Out: African American Maritime Workers in New Bedford, 1838 by Len Travers, Jewish New Bedford and the Birth of a Maritime Antiques Trade by Laura A. Miller and Marla R. Miller, “A complete suit of flannel under-clothing, for bad weather”: Rediscovering and Reproducing Richard Henry Dana Jr.’s Cape Horn Wardrobe by Tyler Rudd Putnam, Oilcloth and Nippers: Outfitting Gloucester Fishermen in the Late Nineteenth Century by Laura E. Peluso.