EVENTS May Day 1949

Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series 16: EVENTS
May Day 1949 Program

EVENTS May Day 1949

TAGS: On-going events at Pine Mountain Settlement School, May Day 1949, last year of the Boarding School, folk dances, dance program, Mary Rogers illustration, Dancing Green, 1949 Calendar for May

INTRODUCTION: EVENTS May Day 1949

In 1949, the last year of the Boarding School at Pine Mountain Settlement School, May Day was in full swing. The transcription and images of the event’s program (see below) provide a list of the typical dances performed during this celebration. The list includes such favorites as Morris Dances (including the Bacca Pipes Jig); Hunsdon House; Picking- up-Sticks; The Weaver’s Dance (where all dancers are wearing something that they themselves wove); Cumberland Square Eight; Hole in the Wall; North Skelton Sword Dance; and others.

TRANSCRIPTION: EVENTS 1949 May Day Program

[01] Cover – [Illustration of a dancing couple by Mary Rogers.] “May Day 1949”

[02] Page 1

Pine Mountain May Day
April 30, 1949 at 2:30 p.m.
The Dancing Green

(In case of rain the dancing will be in Laurel House.)

[03] Page 2

THE GISBURN PROCESSIONAL
BINGO
THE COMICAL FELLOW
Three Morris Dances:
THE BACCA PIPES JIG
SHEPHERD’S HEY JIG
RODNEY
THE PAW-PAW PATCH – by the Creech School
HUNSDON HOUSE
THE BISHOP
PICKING UP STICKS
ABRAMS CIRCLE DANCE
HUNTSMAN’S CHORUS
HEARTSEASE
LA RUSSE
THE WEAVER’S DANCE – All the dancers are wearing something
that they themselves wove.
THE HOLE IN THE WALL
NORTH SKELTON SWORD DANCE
CUMBERLAND SQUARE EIGHT
THE TEMPEST