Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
The Lovell Square Dancers |
Accession # |
1974.02.0661 |
Description |
Photo with accompanying letter by Don Dickerman which appeared in Down East Magazine, June 1970, about the Lovell Square Dancers. The people identified in the photo are: Front row, left to right, Anne Hodsdon, Helen Farrington, Uncle Steve Kimball, Minnie Sawyer and Marie Palmer. Back row, left to right, John Farrington, Ed "The Deacon" Hodsdon, Irma Hodsdon, Reggie Pitman, Prod Poor, Maude Silkworth, Gerald Palmer and Linwood Sawyer . According to Minnie Sawyer's scrapbook from the period, they went to New York with Don Dickerman, to dance three times a night 6, 9 & 12 pm, for fifteen minutes at a time at his club The County Fair. They started Oct. 28, 1927 and began dancing Halloween night. They stayed eight weeks, and returned home about a week before Christmas, Dec. 12, 1927. Used in the Summer 2009 Newsletter. |
People |
Dickerman, Donald Horace (1893-1981) Farrington, Helen C. (Beerbower) (1901-1978) Farrington, John Moody (1903-1971) Hodsdon, Anne (Smith) (1891- ) Hodsdon, Edward "The Deacon" (1878- ) Hodsdon, Irma Kimball, Stephen Farrington (1852-1934) Palmer, Gerald Howard (1904-1978) Palmer, Marie C. (1909-1982) Pitman, Merle Reginald "Reggie" (1910-1964) Poor, Prod Sawyer, Linwood C. (1879-1955) Sawyer, Minerva "Minnie" C. (Manson) Farmer (1873-1953) Silkworth, Maude H. (Davis) (1890-1962) |
Search Terms |
"A History of West Lovell" "Yesterday's News" |
Other Number |
1697 |