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Country Dance & Song Society > Publications > Read > Online Library > The Country Dancer Archives

The Country Dancer Archives

  • The Country Dancer Volume 26, 1965-1966 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
  • The Country Dancer Volume 25, Winter 1964-65 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
  • The Country Dancer Volume 24, Summer 1964 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
  • The Country Dancer Volume 23, Winter 1963-64 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
  • The Country Dancer Volume 22, Summer 1963 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
  • The Country Dancer Volume 21, Winter 1962-63 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
  • The Country Dancer Volume 20, Summer 1962 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
  • The Country Dancer Volume 19, Winter 1961 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
  • The Country Dancer Volume 18, Summer 1961 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
  • The Country Dancer Volume 17, Winter 1960-61 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 Kennedys’ 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
  • The Country Dancer Volume 16, Spring 1960 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
  • The Country Dancer Volume 15, Winter 1959 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
  • The Country Dancer Volume 14, Spring 1959 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
  • The Country Dancer Volume 13, 1958 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
  • The Country Dancer Volume 12, No. 3 & 4 - Spring 1957 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
  • The Country Dancer Volume 12, No. 2 - Summer 1956 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
  • The Country Dancer Volume 12, No. 1 - Spring 1956 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
  • The Country Dancer Volume 11, No. 4 - Winter 1955 - 1956 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
  • The Country Dancer Volume 11, No. 3 - Autumn 1955 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
  • The Country Dancer Volume 11, No. 2 - Summer 1955 Volume 11, No. 2 – Summer 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
  • The Country Dancer Volume 11, No. 1 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
  • The Country Dancer Volume 10, No. 4 - Winter 1954-1955 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
  • The Country Dancer Volume 10, No. 3 - November 1954 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
  • The Country Dancer Volume 10, No. 2 - Summer 1954 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
  • The Country Dancer Volume 10, No. 1 - May 1954 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”
  • The Country Dancer Volume 9, No. 4 - February 1954 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
  • The Country Dancer Volume 9, No. 3 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
  • The Country Dancer Vol. 9 No.2 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
  • The Country Dancer Vol. 9 No. 1 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
  • The Country Dancer Vol. 8 No. 4 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
  • The Country Dancer Vol. 8 No. 3 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
  • The Country Dancer Vol. 8 No. 2 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
  • The Country Dancer Vol. 8 No. 1 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
  • The Country Dancer Vol. 7 No. 4 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
  • The Country Dancer Volume 7, No. 3 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
  • The Country Dancer Volume 7, No. 2 - June 1951 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
  • The Country Dancer Vol. 7 No. 1 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
  • The Country Dancer, Volume 6, No. 4 - December 1950 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
  • The Country Dancer, Volume 6, No. 3 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
  • The Country Dancer Volume 6, No. 2 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
  • The Country Dancer Volume 6, No. 1 - Winter 1950 Volume 6, No. 1 – Winter 1950

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    • 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
  • The Country Dancer Vol. 5 No. 4 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
  • The Country Dancer Vol. 5 No. 3 Volume 5, No. 3 – Summer 1949

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    • 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
  • The Country Dancer, Vol. 5 No. 2 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
  • The Country Dancer Volume 5, No. 1 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
  • The Country Dancer Vol. 4, No. 4 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
  • The Country Dancer Vol. 4, No. 3 Volume 4, No. 3 – Summer 1948

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    • 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
  • The Country Dancer, Vol. 4 No. 2 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
  • The Country Dancer, Vol. 4 No. 1 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
  • The Country Dancer, Vol. 3 No. 3 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
  • The Country Dancer, Vol. 3 No. 2 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
  • The Country Dancer, Vol. 3 No. 1 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
  • The Country Dancer, Vol. 2 No. 4 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
  • The Country Dancer, Vol. 2 No. 3 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
  • The Country Dancer, Vol. 2 No. 2 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
  • The Country Dancer, Vol. 2 No. 1 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
  • The Country Dancer, Vol. 1 No. 4 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
  • The Country Dancer, Vol. 1 No. 3 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
  • The Country Dancer, Vol. 1 No. 2 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 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

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