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Old Home Week is a practice that originated in the New England region of the United States similar to a holiday or festival. In its beginning in the 19th–20th century it involved a municipal effort to invite former residents of a village, town, or city—usually individuals who grew up in the municipality as children and moved elsewhere in adulthood—to visit the "Old Home", the parental household and home town.
In the late 20th and early 21st century, the practice has spread to other parts of North America and has become a broader celebration with an emphasis on local culture and history. From the Wilmington, Vermont town web site:
Old Home Week is an American tradition in New England, where observers return to their childhood homes.
Old Home Week may also refer to:
- Old Home Week (film), a 1925 silent film directed by Victor Heerman
- "Old Home Week," an episode of American action-drama television series The Unit (season 2)
Old Home Week is a 1925 American comedy silent film directed by Victor Heerman and written by George Ade and Thomas J. Geraghty. The film stars Thomas Meighan, Lila Lee, Charles Dow Clark, Max Figman, Charles Sellon, Zelma Tiden and Sidney Paxton. The film was released on May 25, 1925, by Paramount Pictures.
This film is now considered a lost film.
Usage examples of "old home week".
Only once, on the day of the Old Home Week celebration, while the stray fragments of his address drifted across her troubled mind, had she caught a glimpse of another being, a being so different from the dull-witted enemy with whom she had supposed herself to be living that even through the burning mist of her own dreams he had stood out with startling distinctness.
For the first few days after the close of the Old Home Week festivities Charity escaped her by roaming the hills all day when she was not at her post in the library.
One of the first results of the Old Home Week agitation had, in fact, been the reappearance of Lucius Harney in the village street.