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Folk Dancing in Summer School, 1928

Douglas Kennedy, director of Folk Dancing School.
Douglas Kennedy, director of Folk Dancing School during Summer School at Mass. Agricultural College, c. 1928. Courtesy Special Collections and University Archives of the W.E.B. Du Bois Library at UMass Amherst.

Summer School at Mass. Agricultural College was home to a national Folk Dancing School in 1916 and 1917, and again from 1927 to 1933. Beginning in 1927, the school was directed by Douglas Kennedy, director of the English Folk Dance Society in London.