Timber Salvage Reel by Ralph Page (1938) Longways improper contra (very unequal) A1: Neighbors do-si-do Partners do-si-do A2: Actives balance and swing B1: Actives lead down the middle; and back, and cast B2: Star right; star left In CDM4, Zesty Contras, Ricky Holden's Contra Dance Book Written in 1938, after a hurricane tore up some of the buildings at the (Keene) fair grounds and they had a series of benefit dances to raise money to repair them. One day Ralph Page was suprised to read in the paper that "Ralph Page to introduce original dance called Timber Salvage Reel' tonight"; so he thought he had better do something. This was it.