While rooting around online for contras, I found some really interesting syllabi from the Ralph Page Legacy Weekend. The syllabi are available for 1997 through 2003, and contain the choreography for all the dances called at the weekend.

On the same page, you can find a link to the digitized archives of the Northern Junket, a square dance magazine started in April 1949. In the first issue, there’s a review of Ed Durlacher’s Honor Your Partner. Sample quote:

Every physical education teacher, every recreation specialist, every square dance teacher, ought to have this book. And having it, they should study it and profit by it. If they do not; then they are neglectin their art, and deserve to be ridden out of town on a rail.

No mincing words here!

Here’s a mention of someone I know:

Al Brundage, formerly of Danbury, Conn. and one of the top callers of New England, has built a big barn in nearby Stepny, Conn. and is holding a weekly square dance party every Saturday night.

Here’s a whole page of educational square dance stuff from Educational Activities, Inc.