Medical Caregiving and Identity in Pennsylvania's Anthracite Region, 1880–2000

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Notes introduction 1. Golab, “The Polish Experience in Philadelphia,” 52–55; Klein and Hoogenboom, A History of Pennsylvania, 316–20; Poliniak, When Coal Was King, 12. 2. Dublin and Licht, The Face of Decline; Greene, The Slavic Community on Strike; Salay, Hard Coal, Hard Times; Warne, The Slav Invasion and the Mine Workers. 3. Derickson, Black Lung, and Munro, “Grassroots Justice.” 4. Genovese, Angel of Ashland. 5. Abel, Hearts of Wisdom. 6. Diner, Hungering for America. 7. Gabaccia, We Are What We Eat. 8. Caterine, Conservative Catholicism and the Carmelites; Nolt, Foreigners in Their Own Land. 9. Orsi, Thank You, St. Jude; Orsi, The Madonna of 115th Street; Silverman, PolishAmerican Folklore. 10. Korson, Minstrels of the Mine Patch, 1–10. 11. Orsi, Thank You, St. Jude, 256. 12. Baron, “Gender and Labor History,” 35–37; Bederman, Manliness and Civilization , 6–7; Butler, Gender Trouble, 24–25, 136–37, 139–41; Kimmel, Manhood in America, 5; McNally, “Ethnic Stereotyping and Italian American Cultural Identity,” 43–65; Scott, “Gender,” 152–80. 13. Studies on old age include Achenbaum, Old Age in the New Land; Cole, The Journey of Life; Fischer, Growing Old in America; Kutzik, “American Social Provision for the Aged,” 32–65; Woodward, introduction, ix–xxix; and Van Tassel and Stearns, Old Age in a Bureaucratic Society. 14. Peiss, Cheap Amusements, and Chinn, Inventing Modern Adolescence. 15. Interview subjects did not know Mr. Carl’s first name. Furthermore, their use of “mister” indicated their respect for the man and demonstrated that he was a domestic practitioner of powwowing. chapter 1 1. Dublin and Licht, The Face of Decline, 10–11. 2. Borough of Mount Carmel. 154 Y notes to pages 15–22 3. Derickson, Black Lung, 26–30. 4. Quam-Wickham, “Rereading Man’s Conquest of Nature,” 91–108. 5. Martha Anna Girolami Meredith, interview by the author, May 13, 2003, Strong, Pa. 6. Wolensky, Wolensky, and Wolensky, Fighting for the Union Label, 3–4, 35. Minnie Caputo quoted on 53–54. 7. Lillian Bridi Kovalovich, interview by the author, May 14, 2003, Strong, Pa.; Regina Yuskoski Graeber, interview by the author, June 13, 2005, Shamokin, Pa. 8. Davies, The Anthracite Aristocracy, 149–66. 9. Wallace, “The Miners of St. Clair,” 13–14. 10. Borough of Mount Carmel; Corlsen, Buried Black Treasure, 67, 75; Mount Carmel PA Directory; Gordon, Shamokin and Mount Carmel Transit Co. 11. Davies, The Anthracite Aristocracy, 149–50. 12. Meredith, interview; Lillian Bridi Kovalovich, interview; Vincent Daniel Giacomini, interview by the author, March 18, 2004, Strong, Pa.; Carolyn Marie Guizzetti Giacomini, interview by the author, March 18, 2004, Strong, Pa. 13. Roberts, Anthracite Coal Communities, 25. 14. Andrew Kovalovich, interview by the author, July 25, 2005, Strong, Pa. 15. Wallace, “The Miners of St. Clair,” 1–16. 16. Klein and Hoogenboom, A History of Pennsylvania, 356–72. 17. Rose Mary Girolami Perles, interview by the author, 18 January 2004, Elysburg, Pa.; Meredith, interview; Lillian Bridi Kovalovich, interview; Vincent Daniel Giacomini, interview ; Carolyn Marie Guizzetti Giacomini, interview. 18. On company towns, see Buder, Pullman; D’Antonio, Hershey; Garner, The Model Company Town; Garner, The Company Town; Metheny, From the Miners’ Doublehouse; and Mosher, Capital’s Utopia. 19. Aurand, Coalcracker Culture, 25–27, 92; Korson, Minstrels of the Mine Patch, 207–8. 20. Crouch, “The Coal and Iron Police in Anthracite Country,” 100–119. 21. On Progressivism, see Flanagan, America Reformed, and McGerr, A Fierce Discontent. 22. Northumberland County Medical Society Notes 3 (April 1, 1912): 2. For secondarysource information, see Klein and Hoogenboom, A History of Pennsylvania, 426–29. 23. For studies that document leisure practices among the working class, see McBee, Dance Hall Days; Peiss, Cheap Amusements; and Rosenzweig, Eight Hours for What We Will. For information about the leisure activities of the upper and middle classes, see Davies, The Anthracite Aristocracy, 154, and Contosta, “Reforming the Commonwealth,” 307–9. 24. Lillian Bridi Kovalovich, interview. 25. Contosta, “Reforming the Commonwealth,” 307–9. 26. Ashby, With Amusement for All, 92–95; Gorn, Manly Art. 27. Ashby, With Amusement for All, 96–100; Canfield, Growing Up With Bootleggers, Gamblers, and Pigeons, ix. 28. Aurand, Coalcracker Culture, 32–33. 29. Mulhall, “Lost Creek,” 53–54. 30. Canfield, Growing Up With Bootleggers, Gamblers, and Pigeons. 31. Lillian Bridi Kovalovich, interview; Vincent Daniel Giacomini, interview; Pia Marie Eccher Forti, phone interview by the author, May 1, 2004, Strong, Pa.; Carolyn Marie Guizzetti Giacomini, interview. For a secondary-source analysis of married women’s leisure activities, see Peiss, Cheap Amusements, 5. 32. Roberts...