Clark Baker has written an article on Hexagon Squares (dancing with six couples in a hexagonally-shaped formation, not a rectangle). I first saw them while dancing to Bill Eyler , and I’ve called some simple stuff on occasion. But Clark has taken it to a whole other level, suggesting that six couples can dance a hexagon when most of the dancers are in four-couple squares and the caller is calling normal squares.

Anyway, Bill wrote an article for on hex squares in May 1993 for Mikeside Management, the note service published by Stan Burdick from 1992 through (I think) 2001. (Maybe he’s still publishing it; I let my subscription lapse.) Clark wanted a copy, so I went through my back issues and found the article. As I went through the old issues, I realized what a wealth of good information is buried in that (and other) note services. I say buried because there’s virtually no way that a new caller can get copies of those old note service issues, unless they happen to know a retiring caller who wants to get rid of old stuff and happened to be a subscriber, or unless they’re lucky enough to live in Albuquerque and have access to the Lloyd Shaw Foundation Archives. But even the archives don’t appear to have Mikeside Management.

So I googled Mikeside Management, just to see if it has any presence on the web…and there are two: one is in a listing of contact info (I think) in a Danish callers publication, and the other is here: Caller and Cuer Database — Corben Geis, in the notes of a caller who was a Mikeside Management columnist.

Well, I’ve got my back issues, and I do go back and mine them for ideas…but it’d be nice if the info were accessible to others.