Keywords: Contra Dance
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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…"
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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…"
