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The Country Dancer Archives

Volume 26, 1965-1966
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Volume 25, Winter 1964-65
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Volume 24, Summer 1964
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Volume 23, Winter 1963-64
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Volume 22, Summer 1963
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Volume 21, Winter 1962-63
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Volume 20, Summer 1962
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Volume 19, Winter 1961
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Volume 18, Summer 1961
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Volume 17, Winter 1960-61
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Volume 16, Spring 1960
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Volume 15, Winter 1959
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Volume 14, Spring 1959
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Volume 13, 1958
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Volume 12, No. 3 & 4 – Spring 1957
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Volume 12, No. 2 – Summer 1956
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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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Volume 11, No. 3 – Autumn 1955
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Volume 11, No. 2 – Summer 1955
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Volume 11, No. 1 – Spring 1955
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Volume 10, No. 4 – Winter 1954-1955
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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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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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- 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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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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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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- 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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Volume 4, No. 4 – Christmas 1948
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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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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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Table of Contents:
- 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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Table of Contents:
- 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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Table of Contents:
- 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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Table of Contents:
- 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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Table of Contents:
- 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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Table of Contents:
- 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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Table of Contents:
- 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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Table of Contents:
- 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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Table of Contents:
- 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