Michele Norris reads from listeners' e-mail about a conversation with Chester Reed — who retired from the U.S. Postal Service at 95 — and about our story on the growing popularity of contra dancing ...

Fifty years ago, Scott Russell and his girlfriend, Susan Davis, saw an ad in Creative Loafing for international folk dancing at Garden Hills Recreation Center. They decided to attend and joined about ...

From the time I was a young child and attended high holiday services, I always felt a shiver up my spine during the prayer where the community begs God not to abandon them like the way elders are ...

Along with formal court dancing, parlor dancing, square dancing, hoedowning, flatfoot dancing and jigging, contra dancing has survived in the Eastern USA for generations, and Birdsboro is an epicenter ...

WILMINGTON, NC (WECT) - Contra dancing is hundreds of years old, but still pretty obscure to many Americans. The dance form includes a live band, and a room full of spinning and swinging. Contra ...

With caller Bob Nicholson offering instruction, contra dancers form a circle in the hall at St. Faustina Parish Center in Nanticoke. You can expect a similar scene this Sunday, April 6, at St.

Her parents were visiting from Connecticut, and they’d brought her 90-year-old grandfather along. What kind of entertainment would three generations enjoy on a Saturday evening? “I like to meet new ...

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