Community, art, and the state: Storming the citadels (Comedia series)

Kelley, Owen

Comedia

WASHINGTON'S FRIDAY NIGHT DANCE is the largest and longest-running contra dance in the area. From a modest beginning in 1974 in downtown Washington, its growth was later encouraged when it moved to the Spanish Ballroom at Glen Echo Park in the early 1980s. 
 Dozens of interviews with dancers, musicians and callers reveal the kaleidoscope of experiences at the Friday night dance. Out of these interviews comes the story of how the event is sustained by a community. The members of this community collectively possess all the skills necessary to make a traditional American dance a vital part of their lives. 
 If you are curios about the music at contra dances or the origin of contra dance itself, you'll enjoy the essays on these and other topics that are also included in this book.

How the Friday night dance came to Glen Echo Park: A collection of essays about the largest weekly contra dance in the Washington, D.C. area

O. Kelley

Controversy persists over how many people would ride the "maglev." This magnetic-levitation rail line has been proposed to connect Baltimore and Washington. If the maglev ran mostly empty, then it would not be worth constructing. To evaluate the maglev's ridership potential, the present document contains a wealth of information for concerned citizens, elected officials, and transportation planners. This information goes far beyond the six-page discussion of maglev ridership in the DEIS, the project's draft environmental impact statement. For unknown reasons, the DEIS uncritically copies its ridership information from a contractor's report that the public is not allowed to read. In contrast, both facts and controversy are laid bare in the document that you are now holding.

Ridership Revisited: The Official Ridership Forecast for the Proposed Baltimore-Washington Maglev Is a Factor of Ten Too High

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Owen Kelley

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