The Barn Dance

The Barn Dance was an animated short starring Mickey Mouse. It was the fourth cartoon in the Mickey Mouse series. Mickey Mouse picks up his girl, Minnie Mouse, to go to a barn dance.
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We sometimes squeezed in more, but four was comfortable. They sometimes played here in the summer as well, as I remember stopping at the Viking Cabins in Wentworth on the way home for an ice cream. Dad would also buy a pint of ice cream for Ma, who would get up at They also played at Stinson Lake in Rumney, Hew Hampshire on Friday nights during the summer where Dad remembered some couples rushing to get there from the Boston area, stopping at the dance first, and checking into their cabins later.

Ma says that just recently a person came up to her at a Senior Dinner and spoke about how he loved to watch Dad and Irene dance together at the Stinson Lake dances. Ma says that Dad received two dollars a dance at first good money for those days and was earning twenty-five per evening when he got done. My most vivid memories of Dad calling, however, focus around the Painted Barn in Wentworth.

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Now demolished, this old barn was located just west of the stream, which runs along the south Wentworth road where it branches off from Route Its big barn doors were wide open on warm summer nights, allowing music from the band on the stage at the far end of the hall to stream out to the passing cars. Bench seats lined both long walls and a snack counter had been built into the former stable on the east side.

There were still six or eight twelve-inch-square floor-to-ceiling beams left in the barn, arranged symmetrically around the floor. The square spaces between these beams made just the right space for one set of dancers, and the beams even gave a post from which to push off in order to get a promenade going right along.

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I think there was room for three sets wide and four the length of the barn. There was a fine floor, with the little dance wax that Dad scattered around each night adding to its danceability.

Dances at the Painted Barn were from 9 to 12 on summer Saturday nights. Many people have fond memories of arriving a little past 9 and hearing the fox trot or polka perhaps 'Red Wing' or the 'Beer Barrel Polka' as they got out of the car and started for the door. These dances were almost scripted, with many of the same tunes and dances played in much the same order each week, although I doubt that anything was written down.

The first few dances were round dances, waltzes, polkas, fox trots, etc. As teenagers we liked to get four couples our age in a set, so we could swing fast and promenade twice around while the other set were going once around. Sometimes groups of counselors from area summer camps would attend the dances and we locals liked to laugh at them trying to dance and swing in sneakers no less!

On these occasions, it was not uncommon for Dad to come down onto the dance floor, directing the befuddled couples through the dance, all the while calling the changes. Three squares would be called, usually coming from the following selections: If one knew how to swing, do-si-do, allemande left, allemande right, lady's change and grand right and left, a person would get along fine.

If there was a particularly enthusiastic crowd, and if we just stayed on the floor in our sets after the third dance, we could sometimes get Dad to call one more dance, but three was the norm. Dad, Pat, and the boys retired outside, while many of the dancers did the same. There was certainly drinking outside, but there was a cop on duty and Dot Brown, owner of the Painted Barn and organizer of the dances, was clearly in charge. Much of this behavior would not and should not be tolerated today, but that was a different era, and drinking a few beers during the Saturday night dance was common.

Finally, just a few minutes before 12, Dad or Pat would announce the last waltz, and so the dance ended at midnight, usually with 'One Who Has My Heart,' which Pat speeded up to polka pace for the last few bars. Dad would typically dance one or two polkas or foxtrots during the night, and if he spied a particularly good dancer in the hall, would prevail on Pat to play a Viennese Waltz. Traditional Irish Music is known and admired around the world. The history of Irish traditional music is interwoven into the fabric of Irish culture our folklore and dance.

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I remember seeing this and more in Zita Fitzgerald ya wanna get down here and take sum photos. Kieran Rouse check this out. Oh, well--it's an early Mickey cartoon and they hadn't yet hit their lovable stride. Overall, typical animation and quality for an early short, though the story lacks the charm of most of the films in the series.

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