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❖Stories and articles about our music and dance traditions and about events that have occurred over the years.
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❖Photos of dances and dancing.
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❖These represent the traditions of New England, English and French Canada, the British Isles and the Scandinavian countries, as they are represented in New England. Not all of those will be present from the beginning. The material for this section will be organized by regional background.
Some of these stories were originally published in the Seacoast Country Dance Newsletter; others were explicitly prepared for the web site, or exist here in more extended form.
To keep the main pages from getting out of hand they will include story/article summaries with links; to keep the number of pages reasonable I’ll put a few shorter items on the same page at times.
The Organization of This Section
This section is organized primarily by the geographical and ethnic origin of the material.
The Local Community Contra & Square Dance. I wrote an article about the small-to-medium sized local dances around New Hampshire and my feeling that they play an important role in keeping the dance community going that’s often overlooked in favor of the more noticeable large urban dances, festivals, etc.; and describing some of the interesting variety they bring to the dance scene. Part of it was originally published in the March Seacoast Country Dance Newsletter.
