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History, Myrtle Beach, Shag Dancing, Silver Soldiers
Society of Stranders
Nostalgia for the Shag took root in the early Seventies. Competitive dancing rescued the art from oblivion. In 1980, an old lifeguard from Richmond, Virginia, Gene Laughter, thought he’d throw […]
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History, Shag Dancing, Silver Soldiers
Wild Peacocks
In the late Thirties and early Forties, the Shag was performed to swing music, the jazzy sound of the big bands. As the Swing Era waned, the Shag continued to […]
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Baby Boomers, Myrtle Beach, Silver Soldiers, The 1960's
The Next Breath
Once, in the sixth or seventh grade, my father took me to a high school football game. We stood in the end zone watching the last gasp of another gridiron […]
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Baby Boomers, Myrtle Beach, Romance, Silver Soldiers, The 1960's
Center of the Heavens
All I wanted in high school was a date with Francine Little, the Pekingese puppy. An inexplicably magnetic agglomeration of parts she was. Seemingly mismatched parts if viewed separately, and […]