Bill Litchman - oral history

This is an interview conducted with Bill Litchman as part of the research into preparing a 2018 exhibit on "Square Dancing in the American West" at the University of Denver. Litchman discusses his own background, discovering square dancing right after he graduated from high school and then getting involved with a square dance group at the University of Colorado. This led to dancing at Central City, Colorado. He discusses his disillusionment with the direction that square dancing was going in the late 1960s and how that changed for him when he attended a gathering of the Lloyd Shaw Fellowship in 1969. He discusses the differences between traditional square dances and the modern squares.

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