A Look at Southern Squares - Document by Bill Martin
Creator: Bill Martin (This PDF was created in July 2025 from a download made from the Wayback Machine by Emily Addison.)
Bill Martin was a pivotal figure in the revival of old-time square dancing in the Pacific Northwest and, by extension, elsewhere throughout the U.S. This information was originally posted on the BubbaGuitar website, but we downloaded it using the Wayback Machine and reformatted it so it can live on as a PDF.
Bill Martin writes: "These many pages represent all the information I could find about Southern mountain square dancing. Over the years I continue to find errors and clueless guesswork here and there. I was younger then and so excited about discovering this kind of dancing. The site is still useful and fairly comprehensive."
The document is well organized: Orientation, Bibliography, Little Circles, Big Circles, Squares, Mixers
Subjects: Southern Appalachian - general, Southern / Appalachian / Big sets, Southern / Appalachian / Four-couple squares
Tags: Big Circle Dance, big set, Bill Martin, Portland, Southern, Southern Appalachian Squares
Tags: Big Circle Dance, big set, Bill Martin, Portland, Southern, Southern Appalachian Squares
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Bill Martin, “A Look at Southern Squares - Document by Bill Martin,” Square Dance History Project, accessed July 14, 2025, https://squaredancehistory.org/items/show/2107.
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A Look at Southern Squares - Document by Bill Martin
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Bill Martin was a pivotal figure in the revival of old-time square dancing in the Pacific Northwest and, by extension, elsewhere throughout the U.S. This information was originally posted on the BubbaGuitar website, but we downloaded it using the Wayback Machine and reformatted it so it can live on as a PDF.
Bill Martin writes: "These many pages represent all the information I could find about Southern mountain square dancing. Over the years I continue to find errors and clueless guesswork here and there. I was younger then and so excited about discovering this kind of dancing. The site is still useful and fairly comprehensive."
The document is well organized: Orientation, Bibliography, Little Circles, Big Circles, Squares, Mixers
Bill Martin writes: "These many pages represent all the information I could find about Southern mountain square dancing. Over the years I continue to find errors and clueless guesswork here and there. I was younger then and so excited about discovering this kind of dancing. The site is still useful and fairly comprehensive."
The document is well organized: Orientation, Bibliography, Little Circles, Big Circles, Squares, Mixers
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This PDF was created in July 2025 from a download made from the Wayback Machine by Emily Addison.