24 Nov
2021
24 Nov
'21
9:33 a.m.
Just to clarify: The Square Dance History Project functions independently from CDSS,
although there are certainly close connections: David Millstone, founder and curator of
the Project, is a CDSS past president, and CDSS helped fund the six-caller Dare To Be
Square weekend held at the Campbell Folk School in 2011, which was a sort of launch party
for the Project.
CDSS has a wonderful page about squares, originally put together by Nils Fredland, but
they seem to be making it harder to find. From the CDSS home page, go to Resources, then
Callers, then Reflections on the History and Evolution of Calling, then Introduction to
the Various Styles of American Square Dancing.
Tony Parkes
Billerica, Mass.
www.hands4.com<http://www.hands4.com/>
New book! Square Dance Calling: An Old Art for a New Century
(coming in December)
From: Lisa Sieverts via Contra Callers <contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2021 8:37 AM
To: Contra Callers <contracallers(a)sharedweight.net>
Subject: [Callers] Re: Squares from Northern Junket
Just a reminder that we also have this resource at CDSS:
Square Dance History Project<http://squaredancehistory.org/>
And the digitized Northern Junkets at UNH
Northern Junket | Music and Dance | University of New
Hampshire<https://scholars.unh.edu/northern_junket/>
Lisa Sieverts
603-762-0235
lisa@lisasieverts.com<mailto:lisa@lisasieverts.com>
On 23 Nov 2021, at 16:10, Colin Hume via Contra Callers wrote:
Northern Junket was a magazine which Ralph Page edited from 1949 to 1984.
I've now started copying out the Squares he published there, sometimes with my own
comments and suggestions - I've finished Volume 1.
I know some of you dance and call Squares as well as Contras.
If you're interested, please read my page at:
https://colinhume.com/instnj.htm
and let me have any corrections and comments either through the list or by email.
Colin Hume
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