Notes on Tony Parkes' "Contra Dance Calling"

In 1992 Tony Parkes , one of the best-known New England contra dance callers, wrote a book: Contra Dance Calling: a Basic Text . In 2010 he published an updated second edition. I found used copies of each and read through them, interested in both what he thought, and what he thought to change. I read the whole 1992 first edition, then skimmed the 2010 second edition with the older one open at the…