Timber Salvage Reel

by Ralph Page

Longways improper contra

A1

• Do si do on the side; do si do partner

A2

• Ones balance and swing partner

B1

• Ones lead down the middle; and back, and cast

B2

• Star right; star left

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.

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