In small community museums; truck stops; restaurants; bars; barbershops; schools; and churches; people create displays to tell the histories that matter to them. Much of this history is personal: family history; community history; history of a trade; or the history of something considered less than genteel. It is often history based on the historical record; but also based on feelings; beliefs; and memory. It is neglected history. Private History in Public is about those history exhibits that complicate the public/private dichotomy; exhibits that serve to explain communities; families; and individuals to outsiders and tie insiders together through a shared narrative of historical experience. Tammy S. Gordon looks beyond the large professionalized museum exhibits that have dominated scholarship in museum studies and public history and offers a new way of understanding the broad spectrum of exhibition types in the United States.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy KPCoyoteI was delighted by the adaptation of this story into this form.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. ... you are into the classical writings of the masters like Shakespeare and those of his life timeBy RichardIf you are into the classical writings of the masters like Shakespeare and those of his life time. this book is not for you. This book is a up to date and modern story written in the style of the time of Shakespeare. The author of this kind of book. is a genius. if he ever had the chance to meet Shakespeare. Shakespeare would be laughing with the idea the author put into this book. If you as a reader want to study Shakespeare and stay awake doing it. this is the book for you to read.7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. It tieth the two togetherBy Peter OlsonThis book is a seamless knitting together of many of the Bards timeless words and phrases with the oft hilarious and idiotic plot of "The Big Lebowski". Some of the most memorable lines from out of the movie work so well when translated into Elizabethan parlance that it is a wonder that Shakespeare did not. in point of fact. write the script himself. Tis a moste effective parodie if ere twas one worth the name methinks.
