One ball down, one to go! The big event this month is my annual trip to Gettysburg for Remembrance Day Weekend, this year with only one ball. I’ll also squeeze in a quick trip to Boston and a three-week series of disco line dance classes before retreating home to more-or-less hibernate for a couple of weeks and work on writing and blog restoration before things pick up again in the first half of December.

A full list of events further into the future may be found on my overall gig calendar.

At midnight on January 1, 2008, after a couple of weeks of fussing with a name and site design, I nervously clicked "Post" and officially launched Capering & Kickery with a discussion of how many times one needed to play a country dance to dance in historical style and a plan to slowly write out everything I knew about historical dance.

It's hard to believe it's been ten years. 

Back when I started Kickery, I was warned that most individually-written blogs lasted only a year, maybe two at most, before folding.  I've personally had a couple of others that have dropped by the wayside, slain by obsolescence or by my own lack of time.  And nowadays blogs are quite out of fashion, displaced by social media platforms.  But, somehow, Kickery has endured, and from that first short article it has grown a collection of hundreds covering a potpourri of historical dance topics from the sixteenth century to 1970s disco, though with a primary focus on my current interests in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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