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Notes Introduction The epigraph to this chapter is drawn from David Streitfeld, “Rock Bottom for Decades, but Showing Signs of Life,” New York Times, February 1, 2009, p. A16. 1. John Luciew, “Welcome to Steelers Country,” Harrisburg Patriot-News, February 1, 2009, pp. C1, C3. 2. Writing about this series, a columnist for the Columbia Journalism Review commented, “So it sounds like the newness of the recession that we get from the national narrative isn’t so new in Pennsylvania.” (Katia Bachko, “Talking Shop: Dennis Roddy: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Reporter Talks About the Recession’s Effects in Western Pennsylvania,” Columbia Journalism Review, May 28, 2009, accessed May 30, 2009, http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/talk ing_shop_dennis_roddy_1.php). 3. Michael Powell, “Democrats in Steel Country See Skin Color, and Beyond It,” New York Times, October 27, 2008, p. A1. 4. One example is Scott Horsley, reporter, and Steve Inskeep, host, “GOP Ticket in Hershey , Pennsylvania,” Morning Edition, National Public Radio, October 29, 2008, accessed via Lexis-Nexis academic database. 5. John Marchese, “Scranton Embraces the ‘Office’ Infamy,” New York Times, October 21, 2007, “Television” sec., p. 1. 6. “VP Debate,” Saturday Night Live, first aired on October 4, 2008, on the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) and reshown in several broadcasts of the Saturday Night Live Presidential Bash, including January 18, 2008; accessed January 19, 2008, http://www.nbc .com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/vp-debate-open-palin-biden/727421/. 7. ABC News and USA Today, “50 States in 50 Days,” special edition DVD included in America Speaks: The Historic 2008 Election (Chicago: Triumph Books, 2008); Don Frederick , “Hillary Clinton Returns to Her Roots in Scranton,” Los Angeles Times, March 10, 2008, accessed February 16, 2010, http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/03/clinton-in -scra.html; and Katherine Seelye, “One Clinton Hometown Sees Her in Images Befitting a ’50s Movie,” New York Times, March 10, 2008, p. A13. 8. Robin Roberts, “Whistle-Stop America: Voices from the Train,” in America Speaks: The Historic 2008 Election (Chicago: Triumph Books, 2008), 11. 9. Author’s attendance, in the spirit of thorough research, at Springsteen’s concerts in Hershey, Pennsylvania, on August 19, 2008, and May 15, 2009, with Denise Graveline; Bruce Springsteen, “American Land,” on We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions—American Land Edition, Columbia Records, released August 25, 2006, accessed February 16, 2010, http:// www.brucespringsteen.net/songs/AmericanLand.html. 10. Herbert J. Gans, Deciding What’s News: A Study of CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, Newsweek, and Time (New York: Pantheon Books, 1979), 50. 11. Such advertising appeals continued through the 1990s as well; see Oren Meyers, “The Engine’s in the Front, But its Heart’s in the Same Place: Advertising, Nostalgia, and the Construction of Commodities as Realms of Memory,” Journal of Popular Culture 42, no. 4 (2009): 733–55. 182 Notes to pages 4–6 12. Susan G. Davis, “‘Set Your Mood to Patriotic’: History as Televised Special Event,” Radical History Review 42 (Fall 1988): 128. 13. Mary Hufford, “Introduction: Rethinking the Cultural Mission,” in Conserving Culture : A New Discourse on Heritage, ed. Mary Hufford (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994), 1. 14. For authority in representation, see, for instance, Naimah Moore and Yvonne Whelan, eds., Heritage, Memory, and the Politics of Identity: New Perspectives on the Cultural Landscape (Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2007). For implications of globalization and recent political change, see, for instance, G. J. Ashworth and P. J. Larkham, eds., Building a New Heritage: Tourism, Culture, and Identity (London: Routledge, 1994); and David Boswell and Jessica Evans, eds., Representing the Nation: A Reader: Histories, Heritage, and Museums (London: Routledge, 1999). For the nature, forms, and practices of museums, see, for instance, Gerard Corsane, ed., Heritage, Museums, and Galleries: An Introductory Reader (London: Routledge, 2005); Eileen Hooper-Greenhill, Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge (London: Routledge, 1992); Roger Silverstone, “Museums and the Media: A Theoretical and Methodological Exploration ,” International Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship 7, no. 3 (1988): 231–41; Mike Wallace, Mickey Mouse History and Other Essays on American Memory (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996); and Sheila Watson, ed., Museums and Their Communities (London: Routledge, 2007). 15. Robert Hewison, The Heritage Industry: Britain in a Climate of Decline (London: Methuen, 1987), 9, 10, 144. 16. Robert Hewison, “Commerce and Culture,” in Enterprise and Heritage: Crosscurrents of National Culture, ed. John Corner and Sylvia Harvey (London: Routledge, 1991), 175. 17. Kevin Walsh, The Representation of the Past: Museums and Heritage in the Post-Modern World (London...