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Dorothea Graham Jensen
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A Buss from Lafayette
Teens
Author Insight
Perkins Tavern
The Perkins Tavern where the dance is held (and Clara dances with Dickon) was a real place. There were several iterations of the Perkins Inn/Tavern over the years. (The sign board bears the date 1796.) In 1825, it was run by Captain Brinsley Perkins - a most colorful character who shows up later in this story. I have posted a picture of the actual sign board for the Perkins Inn on Pinterest (https://www.pinterest.com/dgjensen116/a-buss-from-lafayette/) and on my website, dorotheajensen.com
Book Excerpt
A Buss from Lafayette
I noticed that the final item posted on the front of Towne’s store was a notice for a dance at the Perkins Tavern on Saturday night. I thought about the dancing school taught by a traveling dancing master at Perkins Tavern about a year and a half before. My mother and father had insisted that I attend. I had reluctantly agreed to go, since I had not wanted to vex my mother, so very ill at the time. No boy had asked me to stand up with him, however. Not one. As I had been far too shy to line up on the dance floor without a partner, I had sat by the wall in the best wallflower tradition. In the end, I had learned the steps, but only by observing others and listening to the dancing master’s instructions.
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