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Réf.
41396
Type
conference item
Titre
Mint in the Mucklands: Imagining the 19th Century Peppermint Oil Industry in Lyons, New York
Langues
English
Auteurs
Mikulski, Jenny A.
Date
2008
Pages
12 p.
Titre de conférence
16th ICOMOS General Assembly and International Symposium: ‘Finding the spirit of place – between the tangible and the intangible’
Lieu de conférence
Québec, Canada
Date de conférence
29 sept – 4 oct 2008
Mots-clés
industry / industrial heritage / 19th century / canals / corridors / intangible cultural heritage
Pays mentionnés
United States
Monuments et sites
Erie Canalway, Lyons, New York State, USA
Résumé en anglais
National Heritage Areas are a relatively newtypology of historic designation in the United States. These
areas are not necessarily contiguous physically and arevalued for many intangible reasons, as well as for their
tangible resources. They have received a special distinctionfor their capacity to “tell nationally important stories about
our nation.” It is important to consider what stories arebeing told, how, and by whom. This paper uses the town of
Lyons, New York – a stop along the Erie CanalwayNational Heritage Corridor – as a case study and cautionary
example for how heritage is an imagined construct. Lyons iscelebrated as the erstwhile Peppermint Capital of the World,
yet the town’s historic peppermint oil industry is widelymisremembered, even by its own residents. This paper
argues that National Heritage Areas have the potential fornuanced readings of the multifaceted and contested histories
of cultural and geographical patterns of human settlementand industry
areas are not necessarily contiguous physically and arevalued for many intangible reasons, as well as for their
tangible resources. They have received a special distinctionfor their capacity to “tell nationally important stories about
our nation.” It is important to consider what stories arebeing told, how, and by whom. This paper uses the town of
Lyons, New York – a stop along the Erie CanalwayNational Heritage Corridor – as a case study and cautionary
example for how heritage is an imagined construct. Lyons iscelebrated as the erstwhile Peppermint Capital of the World,
yet the town’s historic peppermint oil industry is widelymisremembered, even by its own residents. This paper
argues that National Heritage Areas have the potential fornuanced readings of the multifaceted and contested histories
of cultural and geographical patterns of human settlementand industry
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yes
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