Keywords: Contra Dance
Item 78859
Tuscan Opera House Dance Program, Dixfield, February 4, 1926
Contributed by: Dixfield Historical Society Date: 1926 Location: Dixfield Media: Ink on paper
Item 22255
Way Back Ball, Northeast Harbor, ca. 1945
Contributed by: Great Harbor Maritime Museum Date: circa 1945 Location: Mount Desert Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Student Exhibit: Save the Skowhegan Grange & Granges in General
A brief history of the Grange in Skowhegan, its importance to community history, and a plea to save it from destruction.
Exhibit
Music in Maine - Community Music
"My immersion in the late 1970s New England contra dance revival movement led to an opportunity to study the traditional dances of French Canada with…"
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Dancing Fraternity, City of Bangor, 1868
"… more intimate waltz surpassed older dances like contra or group dances in popularity. One historian called the period from 1812 to 1912 the "Waltz…"
Site Page
Surry by the Bay - Surry Village School
"… music instruction began and students learned contra dancing and how to foxtrot and waltz. In 1941 ninth grade was eliminated while the school year…"
Story
Keeping Dance and Music Alive
by Cindy Larock
Cindy Larock's involvement in the traditional music and dance scene in Maine for over 40 years.
