Word: puritans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...archaeological dig in Winnepsaugusaukeeswampscott, Massachusetts, site of early Puritan settlements, historians have found fragments resembling banjos, harmonicas, large gold-plated belt buckles and, most amazingly, several pages of an early Hee-Haw script written on parchment. This startling evidence shows that the Puritans, sober settlers of Boston and founders of Harvard, may have had some contact with honky-tonk...
...historians are left to puzzle out the role country music played in daily life. Research has turned up the names of several of the greatest hits of Puritan country. These include "My dog just died so my wife must be a witch," "It feels like I fell off of the city upon a hill," "My wife's been cheating (while I'm in prayer meeting)," "If this is predestined, what does the Lord have against me?" and the far-and-away all-time bestseller, "Repent, or thou shalt suffer eternal damnation...
...script shows some early gems of Puritan "country" humor, including this bit: Earl: "Eddie, thy daughter is uglier than a possum with acne." Eddie: "It is predestined that she be so, to learn humility. Yeeeeeee-haw!" (Audience hangs Earl and Eddie for the sin of play-acting...
Some evidence also exists of a traveling Puritan show similar to the early 80s television series "The Dukes of Hazzard," where two wily Puritan brothers running contraband hat buckles evade the county sheriff on an extremely fast and maneuverable mule. The end of the show featured a simulated mule chase, ending when the sheriff's mule flips over and lands upside down in the bushes, causing him to say simulated curses like "dag-nab-bit" and "razza-frackin." The main difference from the modern-day version is that, instead of escaping at the end of the show, the Dukes were...
Brustein says Bostonians are not generally receptive to theater. According to Brustein, Puritan severity and intolerance of the arts are still alive and well in the city...