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 (open facing down)


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