LEADER 04038nam 2200553 450 001 9910824092503321 005 20230803213456.0 010 $a0-271-07746-8 010 $a0-271-06434-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9780271064345 035 $a(CKB)3710000000459462 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001532737 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12645190 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001532737 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11475796 035 $a(PQKB)11248151 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6224662 035 $a(DE-B1597)584469 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780271064345 035 $a(OCoLC)1253313679 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000459462 100 $a20200930d2014 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aStaging ground $ean American theater and its ghosts /$fLeslie Stainton 210 1$aUniversity Park, Pennsylvania :$cThe Pennsylvania State University Press,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (xvi, 226 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) $cillustrations 225 0 $aKeystone Books 300 $a"Keystone books." 311 0 $a0-271-06365-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tList of Illustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$tPrologue: 1961 --$t1 Haunted --$t2 Mr. Yecker Opens a Theater: 1866 --$t3 The Killing of the Conestogas: 1763 --$t4 Sacred Space --$t5 Mr. Hager Builds a Hall: 1852 --$t6 ?What Has the North to Do with Slavery??: 1852?1861 --$t7 Interlude --$t8 Theater of War: 1861?1865 --$t9 Mr. Yecker Opens an Opera House: 1873 --$t10 In Transit --$t11 Buffalo Bill and the American West: 1873?1882 --$t12 Memory Machine --$t13 The Minstrel?s Mask: 1852?1927 --$t14 Empty Space --$t15 Players: 1886?1893 --$t16 Women?s Work: 1870?1931 --$t17 Cartography --$t18 Images, Moving and Still: 1896?1930 --$t19 Ghost Dance: 1896?1997 --$tEpilogue: 2008 --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIn 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. Interweaving past and present, private anecdote and public record, Stainton unfolds the story of this emblematic space, where for more than 250 years Americans scripted and rescripted their history. Staging Ground sheds light on issues that continue to form us as a people: the evolution of American culture and faith, the immigrant experience, the growth of cities, the emergence of women in art and society, the spread of advertising, the flowering of transportation and technology, and the abiding paradox of a nation founded on the principle of equality for ?all men,? yet engaged in the slave trade and in the systematic oppression of the American Indian. 606 $aTheater$zPennsylvania$zLancaster$xHistory 606 $aTheater and society$zUnited States$xHistory 615 0$aTheater$xHistory. 615 0$aTheater and society$xHistory. 676 $a792.09748/15 700 $aStainton$b Leslie$f1955-$01659200 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824092503321 996 $aStaging ground$94013751 997 $aUNINA