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From the Radiolab podcast: Can you fit the identity of a whole nation into a dance? Of course not. But we tried anyway.
People have been doing the square dance since before the Declaration of Independence. But does that mean it should be the American folk dance? That question took us on a journey from Appalachian front porches, to dance classes across our nation, to the halls of Congress, and finally a Kansas City convention center. And along the way, we uncovered a secret history of square dancing that made us see how much of our national identity we could stuff into that square, and what it means for a dance to be of the people, by the people, and for the people.
Special thanks to Jim Mayo, Claude Fowler, Paul Gifford, Jim Maczko, Jim Davis, Paul Moore, Jack Pladdys, Mary Jane Wegener, Kinsey Brooke and Connie Keener.
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[@CaseLowe-f6f]

very good

[@RyanEllison-wz7jq]

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[@mchyde4433]

KOA campground on I believe Cape Hatteras sometime in the early 80s. We stayed for a week and I Square danced every night with a cute little girl when I was probably 10 years old

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Numero uno

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