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Hay Fever Holiday: Health, Leisure, and Place in Gilded-Age America

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Sort Desciption: By the 1880s hay fever (also called June Cold, Rose Cold, hay asthma, hay cold, or autumnal catarrh) had become the pride of Americas leisure class. In mid-August each year, thousands of sufferers ed to the White Mountains of New Hampshire ...

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By the 1880s hay fever (also called June Cold, Rose Cold, hay asthma, hay cold, or autumnal catarrh) had become the pride of Americas leisure class. In mid-August each year, thousands of sufferers ed to the White Mountains of New Hampshire, to the Adirondacks in upper New York State, to the shores of the Great Lakes, or to the Colorado plateau, hoping to escape the dreaded seasonal symptoms of watery eyes, owing nose, sneezing ts, and attacks of asthma, which many regarded as the price of urban wealth and education. Through a focus on the White Mountains as Americas most fashionable hay fever resort in the late nineteenth century, this essay explores the embodied local geography of hay fever as a disease. The sufferers found in the White Mountains physical relief, but also a place whose history afrmed their social identity and shaped their relationship to the natural environment. And, they, in turn, became active agents in shaping the geography of place: in the very material relationships of daily life, in the social contours of the region, and in the symbolic space that nature inhabited. In the consumption of nature for health and pleasure, this article suggests, lies an important, yet relatively unexplored, source for understanding changing perceptions of environment and place and the impact of health on the local and regional transformation of the North American landscape. keywords: climatotherapy, hay fever, leisure, nature conservation, tourism, wilderness, place I owe special thanks to Martha V. Elenes and Maureen McCormick for their invaluable research assistance. The generous support of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, as well as the intellectual camaraderie of the ...

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