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Country Dance Society, Boston Centre

LC control no.n 92049303
Descriptive conventionsrda
Corporate name headingCountry Dance Society, Boston Centre
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Variant(s)C.D.S.
CDS
Country Dance & Song Society. Country Dance Society, Boston Centre
See alsoEnglish Folk Dance Society, Boston Centre
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Beginning date1940
LocatedCambridge (Mass.)
Found inA Choice collection of country dances, c1990: verso added t.p. (Country Dance Society, Boston Centre; 1950 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Mass.; f. 1915; C.D.S.)
Its website, 5 Sept. 2002 history (f. Mar. 23, 1915, as part of United States Branch of the English Folk Dance Society; various changes of name and organization; in 1937, national org. became English Folk Dance Society of America; in 1940, name of English Folk Dance Society, Boston Centre, changed to Country Dance Society, Boston Centre; Country Dance and Song Society (CDSS) considered parent org. of Country Dance Society, Boston Centre)
Not found inEncyclopedia of associations, 1991: (Country Dance and Song Society of America; f. 1915; Northampton, MA; has 90 local groups)