Contents

• Introduction / Peter Benes and Jane Montague Benes
• Purveyor to the peddlars : Nathaniel Coverly Jr., printer of songs for the streets of Boston / Kate Van Winkle Keller
• "Pedlars in divinity" : street religion in Massachusetts and Rhode Island before 1830 / Peter Benes -
• "I never used to go out with a weapon" : law enforcement on the streets of prerevolutionary Boston / J.L. Bell
• Doctors in the streets : medicine as public performance in early-nineteenth-century New England / Anu King Dudley
• "Within the King’s lines" : the Long Island letter-book of Prudence Punderson / Patricia Oat-Judge
• Shakers and the public roads : burdens and blessings, 1780 -1875 / Glendyne R. Wergland
• Commotions on Meetinghouse Hill / W. Michael Ryan
• From "Bolshevik Hall" to Butterly Ballroom : the assimilation of South Norwood’s Lithuanian Hall / Patricia J. Fanning
• Admission twenty- five cents-children half-price : exhibiting Egyptian mummies on nineteenth-century America / S.J. Wolfe and Robert Singerman
• Streets in 3-D : early stereography in New England / Jeanne Schinto
• "Fair New England" : displaying the region at the Eastern State Exposition / Anthony J. Antonucci