Conrad,
I happen to have a reference from a 1927 issue of "Old Time New England"
(17:140), quoting at length from the "Boston Gazette" of October 28, 1746,
on Pope's Night Celebrations between 5th and 6th November, talking about
yearly problems with rowdiness, and warning that the authorities would crack
down on that year's proceedings.

Best,
Giovanna

PS: INH sadly is no longer with us.


Giovanna Vitelli, PhD, RPA
CELAT Postdoctoral Fellow  / Chercheure postdoctorale
Université Laval
1030 Avenue des Sciences Humaines 
Québec G1V 0A6 
 


-----Original Message-----
From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Conrad
Bladey
Sent: 04 August 2010 09:30
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Subject: Re: Autobiography of Ivor Noel Hume

Thanks for this heads up. I worked most weekends of four years for the 
Guildhall Museum London at which he had become a legend. One of my 
inspirations.
Does INH have a contact. I have a research interest related closely to 
an article he did on Guy Fawkes Celebrations/bonfire. It is important 
for me to contact him
-or anyone else intereested in archelogical pattern recognition for 
seasonal, calendar custom celebrations such as Fawkes and Bonfire. 
(Popes day in the USA).

Anyone know if in Boston any evidence for the november 5 celebrations 
has been located. There was much burned pagentry and effigies involved 
over a significant period and this would have been both rural and urban.

Conrad

somerwell wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>Last evening I had the chance to read through Noel Hume's newly released
autobiography titled: 
>
>A Passion for the Past: The Odyssey of a Transatlantic Archaeologist.  
>
>The book is published by The University of Virginia Press and is available
on Amazon.com at a discount.
>
>It is a wonderful read from one of the true pioneers in the field of
historical archaeology and the progenitor of so many successful careers.  As
with all of Noel's works, the prose is entertaining, informative, and
inspirational. 
>
>>From the Amazon website:
>
>"Noël Hume is a household name. This book should be a professional classic,
to be read alongside other memoirs like those of Graham Clark, Glyn Daniel,
Gertrude Caton-Thompson, and Mortimer Wheeler. The childhood narrative is an
astonishing memoir of loneliness written without a trace of self-pity. The
book goes on to reveal how Noël Hume and his wife Audrey helped create the
colonial heritage of Virginia with their judicious blending of solid
archaeology and Anglo-American diplomacy." -- Carmel Schrire, Rutgers
University, author of Digging through Darkness: Chronicles of an
Archaeologist.
>
>  
>