Those wishing to dance the Virginia reel like Rhett and Scarlett have a ballroom to practice in again. A long, narrow ballroom – and the rest of President John Tyler’s Sherwood Forest plantation – ...

This is how it’s done. First, you take a short walk. Then you sashay, a step where the left moves off to the side, only to be chased by the right. Then you go in the opposite direction, with the right ...

Magnolia boughs. Cotton bolls. "Dixie." Virginia Reel. Plantations tied to land grants. Floor length white dresses for coeds. White jackets with black plantation ties for the guys. Ah, it was all so ...