ROSE AND THISTLE
Gene Hubert (via Beth Molaro)
BECKET

A1: Down Hall Four in Line /Turn as Cpl/Return; bend the line

A2: Ladies ch half, courtesy turn  into
    Left-hand-star

B1: w/ Next Neighbor, balance and swing

B2: Circle L 3/4 
    and partners swing
Here's a note for the archives...

I danced for many years in Winston-Salem, NC where Gene called and danced.  The Rose and Thistle was a local restaurant where we assembled after the weekly dance for drinks and snacks.  

One evening Gene asked a group of us to walk through a dance he had recently finished.  So we moved a few tables and danced it, right there in the restaurant.  The dance worked and was thus named 'Rose and Thistle.'

The 'Rose' was one of those places where everybody in town ate.  It has since been torn down to widen I40 and straighten out the notorious and deadly 'Hawthorn Curve'.  Local folklore was that original road curved to avoid the restaurant. 

That's my story!  I call that dance a lot, often in a medley.

AnneMarie Walter
Asheville, NC



--- In trad-dance-callers@yahoogroups.com, "davidsmukler" <david@...> wrote:
>
> Thanks, Bree and everyone else who chimed in.
> 
> Here's the dance as I have it (which is the same as what Barrie Bullimore posted):
> 
> Rose and Thistle
> Becket
> Begins in a line-of-4 facing down	
> A1- Down the hall 4-in-line, turn as couples
>     Return, face across
> A2- Ladies chain across
>     Left-hand star
> B1- Balance and swing the new neighbor
> B2- Circle left 3/4 and swing partner, end facing down with the same neighbors in a line-of-4
> 
> I suspect this must be one of Gene's dances, and will wait to get confirmation from Robert C. I wonder if he knows of any other Gene Hubert creations that are not published anywhere....
> 
> David Smukler
> 




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