Texas Dance Halls: A Two-Step Circuit

Texas shows its best moves in dance halls that dot its landscape.Wherever they’ve found fiddlers and dance floors, Texans have been tickled into motion. And for a century and a half, they’ve been kicking up dust in dance halls across the state. Writing about the eighteen she knows best, Gail Folkins celebrates how these halls still bring people together and foster joy.Folkins etches portraits of proprietors who give space for music and dancing, of musicians who furnish the soundtrack for dram…