TULIP TIME, U. S. A.: STAGING MEMORY, IDENTITY AND ETHNICITY by Terence Guy Schoone-Jongen

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Finally, I scrutinize each 24 celebration for themes, meanings, messages, and lessons presented in each festival as well as for the discontinuities or disagreements manifested in each celebration. Beyond content, this study offers something new and different in terms of structure. Previous studies of similar displays of ethnic heritage have tended to intensively study one celebration in one community alone (Danielson, Hoelscher, Graden, Zarilli and Neff, Swiderski, Silverman, Cronin and Adair) or compare two celebrations from communities with different ethnic backgrounds (Hoelscher and Ostergren).

In the midst of all this literature about festivals, heritage, authenticity, ethnicity, and ethnic celebrations, my study offers something of a new and unique direction. In particular, I am taking up the often overlooked topic of DutchAmerican heritage celebrations, several of which were among the first to specifically use ethnicity to draw an outside audience to the celebrating community. In other words, three Dutch towns--Holland, Pella, and Orange City-were among the first to put their Dutch heritage and ethnicity on display specifically for visitors to the town.

They might also include banquets or picnics, historical displays of things like important historical artifacts 46 (General X’s sword, for instances), patriotic tableaux vivants, and, in the case of smaller communities, reunions of former local residents (Glassberg 9-24; Travers 31-68). Other annual occasions took on many of the same features of Independence Day celebrations, as in the case of Washington’s birthday and Evacuation Day in New York (McNamara 35-39). Besides this type of annual festive celebration, larger cities would hold celebrations to mark important occurrences or to welcome visiting dignitaries.

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