The Lawrence Kansas Monthly Blog

  Every beginning of August, there’s a place that I always love going to when I was a kid. This place is the Douglas County Fair. I’ll never forget my first time I went there with my family. We went on all the rides, go down the fun slide, ate some foods, and had a great time. The first time I went was with my mom and dad. My folks really loved it, especially the farm animals in the showcase. It was in the beginning of August and almost the end of July, the day we went there. It was a really fun time to enjoy it for the very first time. If I could reminisce the second time I went there, it would be my dad and I. We would hang out together, go to the fair and do the same thing we did like last year. Oh, and there’s also this thing that I almost forgot to mention earlier. There’s live entertainment. There’s even games, prizes, airbrushed shirts, and plenty more to think of. In the future, I will plan on going back there for old time’s sake. That other time was when I took my stepsist...

  Here at Americana Music Academy, it's the place for  offering lessons, workshops and concerts featuring the music America plays. It's also the home for fiddling and picking music. Now what happens if you added some line dancing for a special occasion or special event? Well, I'll show you a picture to prove it. This is an art of line dancing that I've once done when I was in school. You wanna know what this dance really is? That's square dancing! And I tell you right now, I haven't done that ever since them. What is a square dance, you ask? I'd be very happy to tell you all about it. A square dance is a dance for four couples, or eight dancers in total, arranged in a square, with one couple on each side, facing the middle of the square. Square dances are part of a broad spectrum of dances known by various names: country dances, traditional dances, folk dances, barn dances, ceilidh dances, contra dances, Playford dances, etc. These dances appear in over 100 ...