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#LucyisMargate: a community's efforts to save their town's resident pachyderm
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#LucyisMargate: a community's efforts to save their town's resident pachyderm
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Hamilton
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Anne Marie
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Anne Marie Hamilton
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Gomes Coelho
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Rui Gomes Coelho
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Woodhouse-Beyer
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Katharine
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Katharine Woodhouse-Beyer
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Trinidad Rico
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Rutgers University
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Lucy the Margate Elephant is a historic structure located in Margate, New Jersey. She was constructed by James V. Lafferty in 1881 and is shaped like an Asian elephant. The elephant was in danger of demolition but was saved by a group of volunteers in the 1970s known as the Save Lucy Committee. In this thesis, I examine the emotions and connections people feel toward Lucy and try to determine why the campaign for her preservation has been so successful. To do so, I discuss notions of community and heritage and provide a general background on zoomorphic architecture and roadside attractions in the United States.
The methodology used in this study was a mixture of interviews and document analysis. Interviews with individuals connected with Lucy and documentary evidence suggested that people connect with Lucy because she is a unique and singular structure. She is also frequently associated with childhood memories and serves in many ways as a symbol for her community and as an outlet for people’s feelings about change in the community’s character.
The methodology used in this study was a mixture of interviews and document analysis. Interviews with individuals connected with Lucy and documentary evidence suggested that people connect with Lucy because she is a unique and singular structure. She is also frequently associated with childhood memories and serves in many ways as a symbol for her community and as an outlet for people’s feelings about change in the community’s character.
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Lucy the Elephant
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Art History
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Architecture -- Conservation and restoration -- History -- New Jersey -- Margate City
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1 online resource (vii, 86 pages) : illustrations
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M.A.
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Includes bibliographical references
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ETD graduate
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The author owns the copyright to this work.
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Hamilton
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Anne
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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