A History of the Washington Birthday Celebration
Author : Stanley C. Green
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,95 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Festivals
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Author : Stanley C. Green
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,95 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Festivals
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Author : Elaine A. Peña
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 25,96 MB
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1477321446
Since 1898, residents of Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, have reached across the US-Mexico border to celebrate George Washington's birthday. The celebration can last a whole month, with parade goers reveling in American and Mexican symbols; George Washington saluting; and “Pocahontas” riding on horseback. An international bridge ceremony, the heart and soul of the festivities, features children from both sides of the border marching toward each other to link the cities with an embrace. ¡Viva George! offers an ethnography and a history of this celebration, which emerges as both symbol and substance of cross-border community life. Anthropologist and Laredo native Elaine A. Peña shows how generations of border officials, civil society organizers, and everyday people have used the bridge ritual to protect shared economic and security interests as well as negotiate tensions amid natural disasters, drug-war violence, and immigration debates. Drawing on previously unknown sources and extensive fieldwork, Peña finds that border enactments like Washington's birthday are more than goodwill gestures. From the Rio Grande to the 38th Parallel, they do the meaningful political work that partisan polemics cannot.
Author : Joe S. Graham
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 49,2 MB
Release : 1997-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781574410389
When the early Spanish and Mexican colonists came to settle Texas, they brought with them a rich culture, the diversity of which is nowhere more evident than in the folk art and folk craft. This first book-length publication to focus on Texas-Mexican material culture shows the richness of Tejano folk arts and crafts traditions.
Author : New York (City) Union Defence Committee
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : pages
File Size : 35,40 MB
Release : 2016-05-24
Category :
ISBN : 9781359596437
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Author : 1865 General a. New Jersey Legislature
Publisher :
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 27,11 MB
Release : 2016-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781363870943
Author : Robert Haven Schauffler
Publisher :
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,92 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Holidays
ISBN :
Poems, essays, et cetera by Oliver Wendell Holmes and others.
Author : Robert Haven Schauffler
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 14,75 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Margaret McNamara
Publisher : Schwartz & Wade
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 50,28 MB
Release : 2012-01-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0375844996
A perfect picture book biography from award-winning author Margaret McNamara and New Yorker artist Barry Blitt comes this partly true and completely funny story of George Washington's 7th birthday. In this clever approach to history, readers will discover the truths and myths about George Washington. Did George Washington wear a wig? No. Did George Washington cut down a cherry tree? Probably not. Readers young and old who are used to seeing George Washington as an old man, will get a new look at the first president—as a kid. Perfect for classrooms, Presidents' Day, or as a birthday gift.
Author : Ramin Ganeshram
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,12 MB
Release : 2016
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9780545538237
An expoloration of fifty influential and inspirational women who changed the world. Everyone is buzzing about the president's birthday! Especially George Washington's servants who scurry around the kitchen preparing to make this the best celebration ever. Oh, how George Washington loves his cake! And, oh, how he depends on Hercules, his head chef, to make it for him. Hercules, a slave, takes great pride in baking the president's cake. But this year there is one problem--they are out of sugar. This story, told in the voice of Delia, Hercules' young daughter, is based on real events, and underscores the loving exchange between a very determined father and his eager daughter who are faced with an unspoken, bittersweet reality.
Author : George Washington
Publisher :
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 27,14 MB
Release : 1913
Category :
ISBN :