| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 226 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
"Keystone books." |
| Summary |
"Through both history and personal memoir, examines the role of the Fulton Theatre in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in the shaping of American identity from colonial times to the present"--Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Haunted -- Mr. Yecker opens a theater: 1866 -- The killing of the Conestogas: 1763 -- Sacred space -- Mr. Hager builds a hall: 1852 -- "What has the north to do with slavery?": 1852-1861 -- Interlude -- Theater of war: 1861-1865 -- Mr. Yecker opens an opera house: 1873 -- In transit -- Buffalo Bill and the American West: 1873-1882 -- Memory machine -- The minstrel's mask: 1852-1927 -- Empty space -- Players: 1886-1893 -- Women's work: 1870-1931 -- Cartography -- Images, moving and still: 1896-1930 -- Ghost dance: 1896-1997. |
| Summary |
"In this poignant and personal history of one of America's oldest theaters, Leslie Stainton captures the story not just of an extraordinary building but of a nation's tumultuous struggle to invent itself. Built in 1852 and in use ever since, the Fulton Theatre in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is uniquely ghosted. Its foundations were once the walls of a colonial jail that in 1763 witnessed the massacre of the last surviving Conestoga Indians. Those same walls later served to incarcerate fugitive slaves. 'Staging Ground' explores these tragic events and their enduring resonance in a building that later became a town hall, theater, and movie house - the site of minstrel shows, productions of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', oratory by the likes of Thaddeus Stevens and Mark Twain, performances by Buffalo Bill and his troupe of "Wild Indians," Hollywood Westerns, and twenty-first-century musicals." -- from the book jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Fulton Opera House -- History.
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Fulton Opera House. |
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History. |
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Stainton, Leslie, 1955-
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Stainton, Leslie, 1955- |
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Yecker, Blasius, 1834-1903.
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Yecker, Blasius, 1834-1903. |
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Theater -- Pennsylvania -- Lancaster -- History.
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Theater. |
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Pennsylvania -- Lancaster. |
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Theater and society -- United States -- History.
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Theater and society. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Stainton, Leslie, 1955- author. Staging ground 9780271063652 (DLC) 2013049311 (OCoLC)868147517 |
| ISBN |
9780271064345 electronic book |
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027106434X electronic book |
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9780271063652 |
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0271063653 |
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