The Country Dancer Archives
Volume 26, 1965-1966
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Table of Contents:
Editorial
Theatre Benefit
“Fifty Years On”
Voyager Trio Embarks
Where the Action Is
Chestnut
The Nibs and Jean New World Reel
An (Urban) Folksinger’s Almanac
The Golden Jubilee Year
In Which a Historic Discovery is Reported
News from All Over
In Memoriam
Boston Centre’s Own Jubilee
Frank Proffitt Memorial
Births and Marriages
Folk Music Ambassador
Book and Record Reviews
A Thank You to Many
A Plea from the Top
Volume 25, Winter 1964-65
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Table of Contents:
Calendar of CDS Events
Marriages and Births
Golden Jubilee
The Buffalo Dance at San Felipe
Mall Peatly
A Union for Folksingers and the Teaching of the Folk Guitar
Second Impressions
The Proper Victorians
The Singers Write
Direct Line at Hudson Guild Farm
C.DS. Performances
“Newcastle” at Newcastle
Center News
Book and Record Reviews
Acknowledgements
Volume 24, Summer 1964
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Table of Contents:
Calendar of Events
Marriages and Birth
A Gallimaufry of Gambols
History through Song and Ballad
CDS — World’s Fair Performance
The Baron of Brackley
Center News
News from All Over
Acknowledgements
Deaths
Volume 23, Winter 1963-64
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Table of Contents:
Calendar of Events
Marriages and Births
Banjo Styles — Part 2
Sword Dancing in Hawaii
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Indian Dances
Welcome to Pittsburgh Center
My Mother Bid Me
Pinewoods 1963
John Powell
Acknowledgments
New York World’s Fair
New York Performances by CDS
Center News
The Pinewoods Patient (A Poem)
Deaths
Book and Record Reviews
Volume 22, Summer 1963
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Table of Contents:
Calendar of Events
Acknowledgment
A Kennedy Evening
Twenty-four Hours Ashore
Benefit
Get-away Day on Staten Island
Pinewoods Scholarship Fund
Louise Chapin
The McPeake Family are Unique!
International Folk Music Council
Dancing at the White House
Banjo Styles
The Bonny Lass of Fyvie O
New York World’s Fair 1964-1965
Hindman Dancers at Spring Festival
Educational TV and Radio
The False Young Man
Volume 21, Winter 1962-63
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Table of Contents:
Calendar of Events
Marriages and Births
The Pipe and Tabor
Tour of the Berea Country Dancers
Little Sweetheart — words and music
An Evening of Folk Music
Pinewoods Chamber Music Week 1962
1962 Christmas Festival
In Memoriam
Center News
Welcome
Christmas Ceremonies
Book Reviews
Whaling Ship Days
Record Reviews
Volume 20, Summer 1962
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Table of Contents:
Calendar of Events
Marriages and Births
Harmonizing Pentatonic Folk Songs
English Folk Dance Festival
Douglas Kennedy
Jack Langstaff Concert
The Folk Art Committee
Dancing on the Green
Latin American Tour
Morris Dancing is For All Ages
In Memoriam
Labanotation: A Trip to Paris
36th Annual Spring Festival
Spring Weekend
Welcome
New York Activities
Center News
Sharp’s Arrangements to Appear for Guitar
Book Reviews
Record Review
CDS Sales Department
Volume 19, Winter 1961
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Table of Contents:
Calendar of Events
Marriages and Births
A Christmas Ceremony
From London (England)
The Kennedy Tour
Folk Dance and Royal Ballet
Fourteenth Annual Conference of the IFMC
Nottingham Swing
Pinewoods 1961
Five Gold Badge Awards
Mr. Kennedy’s Report of the Awards Presentations and the Citations
Style in Dancing: II
Headquarters Area: New York Activities
October Weekend
Legend of Laikonick
Center News
Book Reviews
Record Reviews
Washington Irving Saw It Too!
CDS Sales Department
Volume 18, Summer 1961
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Table of Contents:
Calendar of Events
Marriages and Births
Two Worlds of Folk Music
Ranch House Reel — A “New” Dance
Labanotation Defined
On Playing Recorder Music
Recorder Playing in Holland
Spring Dance Programs in Schools
Spring Weekend
35th Annual Spring Festival
The Friends of Old Time Music
The Musical Cock and Other Nonsense
Dr. R. Kenworthy Schofield
Dancing on the Green
Festival Time
The Mountain Folk Festival, Berea, KY
Center News
Square and Folk Dance Events
Pittsburgh Party
John Barleycorn
Book Reviews
Record Reviews
CDS Sales Department
Volume 17, Winter 1960-61
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Table of Contents:
Calendar of Events
Marriages, Births, Engagement
A Long Road — And Its Turnings
Jack-in-the-Green
D’ye Ken John Peel
The Kennedy’s Visit
Dancers not Tourists!
Summer Folk Dancing
Four Seasons Consort
In Memoriam
English Dancing in the Green Mountains
C.D.S. Christmas Festival, 1960
October Weekend
Dancing on the Green
Nonsense Refrains in Folk Song
Pinewoods Parings, 1960
Map of Pinewoods
Book Reviews
From Christchurch Bells to Jingle Bell Rock
Center News
Dance Doings in New York
Volume 16, Spring 1960
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Table of Contents:
Calendar of Events
Marriages and Births
The Music of Cecil Sharp
Appalachian Visit
The Matachines
Cecil Sharp in the Mountains
Spring Weekend
Engagement
Black Jack Davy
Pinewoods 1959 Folk Music and Recorder Week
Folk Arts Program at Hindman
Spring Festival
International Folk Music Meeting
Cecil Sharp Centenary Folk Song and Music Program
Book Reviews
Congratulations
An Old Time Caller
Folk Music Afternoon
Kitty O’Lynn Consort Concert Headquarters Area, New York Activities
Center News
C.D.S. Sales Department
Volume 15, Winter 1959
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Table of Contents:
Calendar of Events
Marriages and Births
Cecil Sharp — Centennial Year Celebration
And to you our Wassail too
Playford Puzzle
What’s in a Name
A President Leads a Christmas Procession
If You Can Walk You Can Dance
October Weekend
A Rigged Country Dance Quiz
Sword Dance Costume
On Organizing a Country Dance Group
Recorder News — What’s Playing
Dancing on the Green
Center News
I Remember Pinewoods
The Four Seasons Consort
In Memoriam
Welcome — to new Affiliated Group
The Miami Valley Folk Dancers
Some Notes on the Language of Folk Song
Record Review
C.D.S. Sales Department
Volume 14, Spring 1959
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Table of Contents:
Calendar of Events
Births
Spring in Folk Custom - Douglas Kennedy
Visits and Workshops
H.R.H. The Princess Margaret
Fairfield Fancy Contra - Dick Forscher
C.D.S. Theater Benefit
Morris Dance Costumes
Square and Folk Dance Events
Center News
Berea Christmas School
C.D.S. Families
Folklore Conference in Rumania
Inspiration from the Hey?
Ralph Vaughan Williams Memorial
Engagement
Frank Warner at Pinewoods
Recorder News: What’s Playing
A Trip to Paris
History of the CDS (part 4)
In Memoriam
New York Activities
Ballads, Songs, and Snatches
Other Reviews
Leap Frog
Suggestions Invited
Volume 13, 1958
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Table of Contents:
Calendar of Events
Marriages and Births
Worchepe ye Seynt Nicholas
1958 Pinewoods Photograph Contest
Prize Winning Photographs
Pinewoods Impressions 1958
History of the CDS (part 3)
Morris Dance Costumes
The Glencoe Promenade
Ritual Dance — Southwest Indian and Morris
Living Green
Dr. Vaughan Williams — Obituary
Center News
In Memoriam 1958
October Weekend
Memorial Gift
C.D.S. Records
History of a Folk Song Addiction
Fall Activities in New York
Volume 12, No. 3 & 4 - Spring 1957
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Table of Contents:
CDS Calendar
To All Members and Subscribers
National Headquarters
Unexpected Gifts
Dancing in New York
Carnegie Hall Performance
Letter to the Editor
An Unusual Craft
Our Traveling Members
History of the Country Dance Society of America (part two)
Japanese Folk Dancers
Congratulations
Madison Avenue Window
May Day in Padstow
New York Festivals
New Jersey Festival
Our Newest C.D.S. Center
British Isles Club
1956 Review — 1957 Preview
Tradition
Such is Fame!
A Cheshire Morris Tune
C.D.S. Takes a Booth
Book Notes
International Folk Music Council
Why the Name?
Weddings
Births
Miss Gadde’s Strathspey
More About Recorders
Volume 12, No. 2 - Summer 1956
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Table of Contents:
Pinewoods
From Brasstown
Dancing in Seattle
Square Dance Award
History of the Country Dance Society of America (part one)
Cleveland Dancers Try Their Skill and Have Fun with a Handicapped Square Dance
“Wilderness Road”
How to Promote Morris
Cambridge Morris Workshop and Country Dance Weekend
Arts Festival
Notes on Calling and Presentation of Dances
Early American Square Dancing?
Pretoria - South Africa
Folk Dance Celebrations
Book Notes
A Festival at Rifton
The CDS Fund
Volume 12, No. 1 - Spring 1956
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Table of Contents:
CDS Calendar
New Jersey Festival - at Piper’s Fancy
New York - End of Season
Pinewoods 1956 Version
Oranges and Lemons
The Dance
The Rhyme
Summer Dancing in England (pictures)
Book Reviews by Evelyn K. Wells
The Ballad Book
Traditional British Ballads, A Selection
Books Received
Pennsylvania Dance Party and Picnic
Center News
Congratulations
June Weddings
Summer Vacations
Volume 11, No. 4 - Winter 1955 - 1956
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Table of Contents:
National C.D.S. Dates to Note
New York
Festival Patrons Needed
Houseparty Dance Weekend
We Point with Pride…
Mountain Folk Festival
Goodwill Through Folk Dancing
Dragons, Lions, Hobby-Horses and Bulls
Going to Germany this Summer?
Frontier Dance News
Circulating Dance Library
Our National C.D.S. President (Lily Roberts Conant)
News from England
Greetings from New London
From Cairo, Egypt
Center News
Correspondence
Berea Christmas School
More About Recorders
C.D.S. National Officers and Council Members
Republication of Ballads
Volume 11, No. 3 - Autumn 1955
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Table of Contents:
December Special Events
In New York
Visit to the Southwest - June 1955
New Books - To Own and to Give
Pinewoods 1955
Acknowledgment
Ballade of a Man’s World
Southeastern Kentucky Regional Folk Festival
Boston’s September Weekend
Center News
Mary Perera
New Center
The Virginia Reelers
Wedding
Berea Christmas School
Other Christmas Dance Vacations
Volume 11, No. 2 - Spring 1955
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Table of Contents:
Summer Dance Camps
Correspondence
National Spring Festival in New York
Connecticut Square Dance Festival
New C.D.S. Center
Community Square Dance Club
Kentucky Folk Festival
New Jersey Festival
Ralph Page and his home state New Hampshire
The Contra Master
Mountain Folk Festival
Correspondence
Holiday Hill
Summer Vacation Camps and Courses
Correspondence (cont)
American vs English Versions
Book Reviews by Roberta Yerkes — Frog Went A-Courtin’ and A Guide to English Folk Song Collections
Volume 11, No. 1 - Spring 1955
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Table of Contents:
Calendar
New C.D.S. Center
Community Folk Dance Group of Warren, OH
Recorder News
Opportunities for Visits to Europe
The Twain Can Meet
Weddings
Births
Square and Round Dancing in Cleveland
Spring Customs
Cape Cod Vacation
“Wilderness Road” a drama of the southern mountain people
Spring Festivals
Dancing and Crafts
May Festival in Connecticut
Caller Available for Travel
Center News
Folk and Square Dancing — For Old People? Sure!
Book Review by Roberta Yerkes — Singing Family of the Cumberlands
Summer Vacation Camps and Courses
Volume 10, No. 4 - Winter 1954-1955
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Table of Contents:
National C.D.S. Dates to Note
International Festival of Music and Dance
Member Artist
Winter Rituals
New Film
Book News from the Oxford University Press: Jean Ritchie Tells Story of her Singing Family
The Twelve Reel
Folk Dance Enters Modern Dance Field
Impressions of the Ampleforth Sword Dance Play
Christmas Festival
New Center
North Texas Frolic and Dance Club
Folk Dance Program at Stuart Robinson
The Christmas and New Year Gift Fund
Gift from Centers
Gift of Records
English Dances in Germany
Question and Answer
Volume 10, No. 3 - November 1954
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Table of Contents:
Calendar
Weddings
Recorder Classes
Christmas Festival in New York
Dr. Raymond F. McLain
November Celebrations
E.F.D.S.S. Director
E.F.D.S.S. President
Pinewoods Camp
Berea Christmas School
Cecil Sharp House
Photograph of Mural Painting at Cecil Sharp House
A Saturday evening with Douglas Kennedy
Square Dancing part 2
Center News
The Ladies Triumph, or Katy’s Rambles
“No Knobbly Knees and Few Beards”
Cockleboat Jig
Volume 10, No. 2 - Summer 1954
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Table of Contents:
Welcome to the East
Pinewoods — August 8 to 30
A May Weekend
Ye Olde Maying
Our Featured Caller — Al MacLeod
Four Leaf Clover
We Sing Behind the Plow
Kentucky Folk Festival
A Place of Fresh Green
Denver Festival
National Spring Festival in New York
Dancing in Baltimore
The Dancing English
Our C.D.S. Raffle
Our C.D.S. Fund
Volume 10, No. 1 - May 1954
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Table of Contents:
Calendar
“Town and Gown”
Words for Square Dance Tune
Correspondence
Connecticut Square Dance Festival
From the E.F.D.S. to the C.D.S., by Eileen Gunnell
For Our Music-Makers
For Summer Is Icomen In Today
Folk Ceremonials
Scrambled Dances (answers)
Our C.D.S. Families
The Shrigley Family
Center News
Mountain Folk Festival
C.D.S. Christmas Fund
“Over Tables, Chairs, and Stools”
Volume 9, No. 4 - February 1954
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Table of Contents:
Country and Contra
Jack in the Green Tunes
Calendar
A Philadelphian Visits London
Our Featured Caller — Dick Forscher
Ends Turn In
National C.D.S. Event — The First of May — Spring Festival
William Wells of Bampton
Pinewoods 1954
Morris Dancing and Customs Today
One Picture May Save a Hundred Words
Continuing Tradition
Our C.D.S. Families
The Rosser Family
Benefit Dances
Center News
John C. Campbell Folk School
Berea College, KY
Scrambled Dances
Correspondence
Volume 9, No. 3 - Winter 1953-1954
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Table of Contents:
The Kissing Bough
"A little of your treasure"
Presentation
Mummers’ Plays
Sword Dance Plays
Country or Contra?
Walk In, St. George
Center News
Dancing in the H.Q. Area
Our C.D.S. Families — The Hider Family
Weddings
Births
Book Review by Roberta Yerkes — The Burl Ives Song Book
Books Received
Volume 9, No. 2 - June 1953
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Table of Contents:
Calendar
From Our Mailbag
Letter Needed
The Compleat Campers
Our Featured Caller — Paul Hunt
Bully of the Town
Phrasing Clarified, by Dick Best
National Spring Festival in New York
Kentucky Folk Festival
Connecticut Square Dance Festival
Mountain Folk Festival
Mt. Bethel Maypole
Twin Sisters
Fund Campaign
Pinewoods 1953
Ah, Pinewoods!
Benefits for Fund
Volume 9, No. 1 - Spring 1953
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Table of Contents:
Calendar
Weddings
Births
World Festival of Folk Dance and Folk Song
For Madrigal Singers
Our Featured Caller — Ralph Refferteller
Grapevine Twist
Berea Christmas School
Letter to May Gadd from Will Kimber
The Various Types of Dance Rhythms, by Dick Best
New Yorker Profile
What to See When In New York
Newcastle
William Kimber and his Letter
National Executive Committee
Our Secretaries
Mrs. Mireille Backer
Miss Pauline Chamberlain
Book Review by Roberta Yerkes — Contras Are Fun
Volume 8, No. 4 - Winter 1952-1953
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Table of Contents:
Anniversaries
"O! The Thirteenth Day of December-"
Our Featured Caller — Phil Merrill
Round Just One
New Center
Potsdam, NY
A Mummers’ Play
Recording of English Dances with Symbols
New C.D.S. Members
Births
Correction
Center News
Coming Event
Books Received
Volume 8, No. 3 - December 1952
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Table of Contents:
December Special Events
Berea Christmas School
England 1952
O.B.E. for Douglas Kennedy
Our Featured Caller — Al Brundage
Pick Off Your Corner
Photographs
Marriages
Center News
Pinewoods 1952 (pictures)
“Jean Ritchie Sings”
From Our Mail Bag…
National Council Election Results
New Center
Berea, KY
New C.D.S. Members
Volume 8, No. 2 - July-August 1952
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Table of Contents:
Coming Events
Pinewoods
Boston’s Weekends
Our Featured Caller — Frank L. Kaltman
Bird in the Cage 7 Hands Round
“The Short Course”
“Oranges and Lemons”—An Old Rhyme
Style in Dancing 4
A Philosophical Vision of Square Dancing
New Jersey Festival
American Folk Lore
Stuart Robinson News
Impressions
Volume 8, No. 1 - April-May 1952
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Table of Contents:
Book Review by Roberta Yerkes — Dances of England and Wales
Pinewoods 1952
Coming Events
"The Proclamation Made for May," by Bill Sellers
To You Wassail
Correspondence
Our Featured Caller — Rickey Holden
Texas Whirlwind
Explanation of Texas Whirlwind Call
"American Visitors to England"
Kentucky Folk Festival
Morris Day in New York
Dancing in England
New Centers
Summer (NJ) Country Dance Group
Southeastern Kentucky Regional Folk Festival
Ohio County Recreation Club
Personalia
Center News
Volume 7, No. 4 - December-January 1951-1952
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Table of Contents:
Letter to Members, by Genevieve Shimer
Adult Mountain Folk Festival
Pinewoods Camp
Leaders’ Workshop
Pinewoods Personalities
Folk Music Week
Pinewoods — 1951 and 1952
Lexington Workshop
Country Dances of Today — Book 2
C.D.S. Makes Records
Tunes for “La Russe”
Dress for Men
Center News
Volume 7, No. 3 - August 1951
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Table of Contents:
Coming Events
Pinewoods
Wake Up and Dance
Festival, by permission copyright 1951 The New Yorker Magazine
Tradition
As Others Think We Are
Our Featured Caller — Dick Best
Between the Sides and Forward Six
Comments on the “Call”
Festival at Albert Hall
Cecil Sharp House Reopens
Festival in Yugoslavia
New Jersey Festival
C.D.S. Dances at A.A.H.P.E.R.
The Waltz
Kentucky Adult Folk Dance Club
A Wonderful Idea
New Center
The Burnside Folk Games Club
Marriage
Style in Dancing 3
Volume 7, No. 2 - June 1951
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Table of Contents:
C.D.S. Banner
Pinewoods 1951
New Publication
Coming Events
Ever-Returning Spring
Our Featured Caller — Raymond Smith
Elbow Swing
Explanation of “Elbow Swing” Call
Our Fund
Contributions from Festivals
We Make the New Yorker
Kentucky Folk Festival
A New C.D.S. Venture
Mountain Folk Festival
Philadelphia Folk Festival
Director’s 1951 Tours
Style in Dancing 2
National Folk Festival
New Centers
The Catholic High School, Fort Madison, IA
The Mt. Bethel Dance Group
Center News
Volume 7, No. 1 - March 1951
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Table of Contents:
Coming C.D.S. Events
Other Events
Silver Anniversary Spring Festival
Wake Up and Dance
Georgie
"One of the Lucky Ones," by Evelyn K. Wells
Our Featured Caller — Dick Kraus
When the Work’s All Done this Fall
For Many as Will
National Folk Festival
Style in Dancing
Douglas Kennedy
From our Sales Department
Correction
Kentucky Folk Festivals
Expansion of the Mountain Folk Festival
New Centers
Guild Hall Country Dance Club
Louisville Country Dance Center, KY
Media Country Dance Center, PA
Center News
Volume 6, No. 4 - December 1950
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Table of Contents:
Coming C.D.S. Events
Dancing in Grenoside
Violin Teacher
Dancing in a Kentucky School
Marriages
Our Featured Caller — Ed Durlacher
My Little Girl
Fall Tour
Lectures and Concerts
Lecture on Folk Music by Maud Karpeles
John Langstaff’s Recital
Douglas Kennedy
Cecil Sharp House in London
C.D.S. Fund Campaign
From Our Mail Bag
Costumes and Dancing
Against Competitions
Volume 6, No. 3 - October 1950
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Table of Contents:
Coming C.D.S. Events
Northern England Festival
New Centers
Transylvania College
“Squares-Up” Club of Scarsdale, NY
New York District Council Activities
Square Dance Activities
Special Feature — Callers’ Favorite Calls
Gents’ Left-Hand Star
Our Featured Caller — Louise Chapin
Pinewoods Camp 1950
Bulletin — Douglas Kennedy
Marriages and Engagements
C.D.S. Fund
First Folk Music Camp at Long Pond
Dances from 1450 to 1600
From Our Mailbag
Center News
Volume 6, No. 2 - June 1950
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Table of Contents:
New Centers
Gateway School, New Haven, CT
Huntington, WV
Juilliard School of Music Square and Country Dance Society, New York, NY
Sherwood Square and Folk Dance Club, Denver, CO
The Potsdam Polka Dots, Potsdam, NY
The Adult Festival
The Mountain Folk Festival
Christmas Country Dance School
Handing Down the Little Devils, by Jean Ritchie
“It Was This Way”
In Charge of the Hoeing
Something Going On
The C.D.S. Region by Region
Special Feature — Callers’ Favorite Calls
Jolly Irishmen
Our Featured Caller — Harold T. Goodfellow
The Ballad Tree
Pinewoods Camp
Jean Ritchie Sings
Mr. John M. Glenn
Dance Directory
Personalia
Festival Dancers
News from Centers
Benefit parties
Volume 6, No. 1 - Winter 1950
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Table of Contents:
Pinewoods Camp — Gala Season
New Feature — Callers’ Favorite Calls
Right Hand Up and Left Hand Under
Kitty McGee
National Folk Festival
An Old Timer
Mountain Folk Festival
“–Our Revels Now are Ended”
Council of Southern Mountain Workers
American Square Dances of the West and Southwest, by Lee Owens
News of Members
Spring Festival
The International Folk Music Conference
Song as Well as Dance, by John and Nancy Langstaff
Thoughts About the Christmas School
Bristol Fair
Rocky Mountain Folk Dance Camp
Party Primer
Dance Directory
Membership Memoranda
Volume 5, No. 4 - Autumn 1949
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Table of Contents:
Our New Constitution
Ye Morrice
New Headquarters Office
New Centers
Essex County Square Dance Group, Glen Ridge, NJ
Folk Arts Center of the Country Dance Society of Lexington, KY
Abbots Bromley Horn Dance
National Executive Committee
Set Runnin’ in Eastern Kentucky by Patrick E. Napier
Pinewoods 1949
Regional Festivals in the Southern Highlands
England’s Dances. Folk Dancing To-day and Yesterday by Douglas Kennedy
Deer Dancers by May Gadd
Christmas Country Dance School — Berea, Kentucky
Summer Folk-Dancing in England
Regional Festival at Ringgold, Georgia
Regional Folk Festival at Hindman
Cumberland Regional Folk Festival
Christmas Party in New York
Labor Day Square Dance Festival at Fairlee, Vermont
Some of the Materials Now Available Through the Country Dance Society of America
National Folk Festival
Volume 5, No. 3 - Summer 1949
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Table of Contents:
The Country Dance Music (2) by Edward Tatnall Canby
The Country Dance Society of America
The Mountain Folk Festival for Adults
Center News
Cleveland Comments
Derry Down Derry
Recent Events in the Southern Highlands
Volume 5, No. 2 - Spring 1949
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Table of Contents:
Whitsun Morris by May Gadd
Country Dance Music by Edward Tatnall Canby
Dance Doings at Haverford
At Pinewoods Camp
Camp house Porch Scene
In Oklahoma by Homer E. Howell
Craftsman’s fair at Gatlinburg
Book Reviews by Roberta Yerkes
Hullabaloo and Other Singing Folk Games
Honor Your Partner
Raymond Smith’s Square Dance Hand Book
Center News
Pinewoods Camp, near Plymouth, MA
Volume 5, No. 1 - Winter 1949
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Table of Contents:
To the Callers, by Ed Durlacher
New Square Dance Book
William Kimber
Pinewoods 1949
Figure Dancing
CDS Christmas Party
The Christmas Country Dance School
Book Review — Grandfather Tales by Roberta Yerkes
Mountain Folk Festival
National Folk Festival in Saint Louis
Annual Conference of Southern Mountain Workers
New Country Dancer
Let Us Honor Our Partners!
Center News
Volume 4, No. 4 - Christmas 1948
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Table of Contents:
La Russe Quadrille
Stratford Festival
First Impressions of Pinewoods
Rocky Mountain Camp
Christmas Customs
Looking Back
A Farewell
Fall Tour
News from Regions and Centers
Stuart Robinson
Volume 4, No. 3 - Summer 1948
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Table of Contents:
Forward Up Six, by Adrian L. Hull
Pinewoods Camp
Cheyenne Mountain School Dancers
Spring Festival…1948
Spring General Meeting
Coast to Coast
Couples Swing and Change Places
Sacre Printemps
News from Regions and Centers
Mountain Folk Festival Diary
Book Review — 12 Home Made Square Dances, by Roberta Yerkes
Rocky Mountain Folk Dance Camp
Volume 4, No. 2 - Spring 1948
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Table of Contents:
General Meeting of C.D.S.
Hobby Horses, by May Gadd
Festival in Edinburgh
C.D.S. Spring Party
Unnatural Dance, by Douglas Kennedy
1948 C.D.S. Summer Camp
The Training of Musicians for Square Dance Music, by R. Duncan Hay
Book Review — The Soviet Ballet, by Roberta Yerkes
English Dance Records
News from Regions and Centers
Christmas Country Dance School
The Cumberland Reel
Volume 4, No. 1 - Winter 1948
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Table of Contents:
Six Months in England, by May Gadd
C.D.S. Spring Party
A Special Contributor
Cotswold
1947 Summer Camp
Miss Gadd’s Tour Dates
Letter from Belgium
News from Regions and Centers
Annville Institute Regional Festival
North Carolina Regional Festival
Tennessee Regional Mountain Folk Festival
Acknowledgments
The Cumberland Square Dance
C.D.S. Director on Tour
Volume 3, No. 3/4 - July 1943
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Table of Contents:
Editorial — Readjustment
Louisville Country Dance Institute
1943 Administration Fund
The Farewell Party
From Our President
From the John C. Campbell Folk School
English Fairies and Shakespeare, by May Gadd
American Country Dancing: Facts and Fallacies, by Mrs. Ella G. Sonkin
Mountain Folk Festival, by Elizabeth Watts
Youth and the Squares, by Ed. Durlacher
A Portrait of Mrs. Storrow
Fallacies? by May Gadd
May Day at Lees College
C.D.S. Festival
"I Call Square Dances for the Army, Do You?," by Lovaine Lewis
Do You Play a Recorder?
News from Regions and Centers
More Grand March Figures
Volume 3, No. 2 - April 1943
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Table of Contents:
Editorial — Spring Festival? Summer Camp?
1942 Administration Fund
Promenade High — Promenade Low, by Howard Cleveland
Country Dance Institute in Louisville
National Folk Festival
Regional Folk Festival, by Marguerite B. Bidstrup
A New Center - The Hindman Settlement School
Country Dancing with Service Men, by Laurence B. Cairns
Hindman — and Recreation, by Pauline Ritchie
More About Pinewoods Camp
Can This Be Sabotage?
News from Regions and Centers
More About the Festival
Acknowledgments
1943 Administration Fund
Letter from England
Volume 3, No. 1 - December 1942
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Editorials
Volume Three and a Happy Christmas
Enjoinment to Enjoyment
Grand March Variations, by Richard Chase
Dances of New Hampshire and Vermont, by Naomi Mattuck
Impressions of the Summer School 1942, by Margaret Judson
New England Folk Festival, by Alexander Hoyle
C.D.S. Vice-President
The Ballet and the Country Dance, by May Gadd
C.D.S. Dancers in the Services
New York Christmas Party
Subscriptions
Leonard Elsmith
Administration Fund
Christmas School at Berea College, KY
Acknowledgment
News from Regions and Centers
Arrival in Hawaii
Book Review — The American Folkways Series, by Roberta Yerkes
Addresses
Volume 2, No. 4 - July 1942
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Editorial — The Dancers Take Hold
Pinewoods Camp
Wartime Recreation
The C.D.S. Festival, by Margaret Stanley-Brown
Sweet Ellen, by Mary McNair
We Have Television Too!, by John Hodgkin
May and Dancing in Lexington, by Lovaine Lewis
National Folk Festival, by May Gadd
News from Regions and Centers
Dancing in Baltimore, by L.B. Cairns
Two Views of the Mountain Folk Festival, by Beatrice Kane McLain and Frank H. Smith
Book Review — English Custom and Usage, by Roberta Yerkes
Correspondence
National Administration Fund
Volume 2, No. 3 - April 1942
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Editorial — Need of an American C.E.M.A., by Evelyn K. Wells
New York General Meeting
Music and Dance in England
To Square Dance Callers, by Ralph G. Page
Television Adapts to Wartime, by May Gadd
Traditional and Playford Dances, by Helen Kennedy
C.D.S. Spring Festival
National Folk Festival
The C.D.S. in Wartime, by Margaret Stanley-Brown
1942 Summer Camp
Boston Visit
Course at Brasstown, N.C.
Acknowledgments
News from Regions and Centers
Goddard College Weekend
Square Dance Record
Book Review — Western Square Dances
From Douglas Kennedy
Volume 2, No. 2 - January 1942
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Editorial - The Arts in Wartime
Square Dancing in the Park, by George W. Hibbitt
Weekend School in Vermont
Television News
Thanksgiving by Dancing, by Margaret Stanley-Brown
Country Life and Country Dancing, by Douglas Kennedy
A Christmas Impression, by Walter Clarke, Jr.
Berea Christmas School
Acknowledgments
Defense Recreation, by May Gadd
For Square Dance Callers
Gym Classes in Square Dancing, by Claude S. Chadwick
News from Regions and Centers
Book Review — American Guide Series, by Roberta W. Yerkes
Volume 2, No. 1 - November 1941
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Editorials
Volume Two
Dancing for Defence by Helen Storrow
In England
Berkshire Music Center
Adventure Into Television, by May Gadd
We Went to White Top, by Lovaine Lewis
Vermont Folk Festival, by John Gould
Come Let Us Sing. What Shall We Sing?, by Olive D. Campbell
Recreation Institute at Clarksville, Tennessee, by Frank H. Smith
For Square Dance Callers - variation of the Call for the Ocean Wave Quadrille
One View of Pinewoods Camp, by Lynn Gault
Appointment to the Advisory Board
C.D.S. Badge Competition
News from Regions and Centers
Book Review — Palestine Dances!
New York Activities
Volume 1, No. 4 - May 1941
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Editorials
English Dance and Song
The Country Dancer
Summer Dancing
Mountain Folk Festival by Frank Smith
Cheyenne Mountain School by Evelyn K. Wells
British War Relief Benefit
Rhythm and the Dancer by Melville Smith
Folk Dancing in the Schools by Lucy Madeira Wing
Country Dance Society Spring Festival
May Party in New York
New Haven Center
Appointment to Longy School
A Square Dance Mural
American Legend
Book Review — Swing Your Partners
News from Regions and Centers
The Camp Doctor
Volume 1, No. 3 - March 1941
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Editorial
On Festivals by May Gadd
C.D.S. Dates to Note
Rhythm and the Dancer — Part Two by Melville Smith
A Party in Montclair
Country Dancing in Ohio by Lynn Rohrbough
The C.D.S. 1941 Spring Festival
Country Dance and Modern Dance
Pinewoods Camp
With Virginals and Recorder by Margaret Fitzhugh Browne
A Leaders’ Weekend
Mountain Folk Festival 1941
News from Regions and Centers
The Author of “Dancing in Ohio”
The Gentleman’s Magazine 1731 - 1907
A Trip to Hanover
Locking’s Whim
Folk Dance Course at Brasstown, N.C.
C.D.S. General Meeting in New York
History of the Country Dance Society — Part Three by May Gadd
Volume 1, No. 2 - January 1941
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Editorials
Folk Dancing and the World Today - Lucy Madeira Wing
Dancing in England - May Gadd
Autumn Musical Meeting in Boston - Eleanore Hubbard
Three Triple Minors — Numbers Two and Three by Frances H. Jackson
Rhythm and the Dancer by Melville Smith
The Mummers’ Play by May Gadd
Christmas Revels in New York - Adrian Hull
The Country Dancer
Spring Festival
New Centers
News from Regions and Centers
History of the Country Dance Society — Part Two
New York Activities
Volume 1 No. 1 - November 1940
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Editorials
The Country Dancer
The Second Quarter Century
From the Society's President by Helen Storrow
Cecil Sharp to 1940 by John M. Glenn
News From England
“You’re—A Pretty Good Dancer, Sally Ann,” by Evelyn K. Wells
Pinewoods Camp 1940
Teachers Course
A Dancing Weekend
For Dance Teachers: Three Triple Minors by Frances H. Jackson
Center News
History of the Country Dance Society, 1915 - 1940 by May Gadd
Offer to Centers
Future Numbers of the Magazine
Illustrations
Headquarters Activities in New York
Christmas School at Berea