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Square Dancing By The Numbers, Part 3

Friday 30 September 2005, 11:48 pm
Keywords: Square Dancing , Round Dancing

I bid $11 on this Ebay auction earlier today:
SQUARE DANCE CALLS PIONEER FOLK 1930S-50S 5 BOOKS LOT

Ha! The auction ended at over $140. This lot included the book that started it all. No, not Pappy Shaw's Cowboy Dances, but Henry Ford's Good Morning. It also includes Dance A While, another highly-sought book that is still being published in its 9th edition, and is the classic intended for public school teachers who want to teach square dancing to their students. (Remember those good old days?)

Good Morning is available in a number of editions and a wide range of prices on Amazon.com.

So is Dance A While.

I wish the demand for old books like this translated into a burgeoning interest in square dancing. But I fear it mostly translates into my paying very high prices for old square dance books.

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Square Dancing By The Numbers, Part 3

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