How can I hear the guy playing banjo and hear his son's feet hitting the floor? Did you know that all that mountain music is Celtic and that step dancing the kid is doing merged in 5 Points in NYC with black slap and shuffle into American tap dance: I think the first tap dancer was a black called Old Tom or Black Tom. All this in book called 5 Points which I will try to find and send to you. Irish and the black were the lowest level of society in Old NY: from 1840s to 1860s when Tammany took over using Irish muscle.
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How can I hear the guy playing banjo and hear his son's feet hitting the floor? Did you know that all that mountain music is Celtic and that step dancing the kid is doing merged in 5 Points in NYC with black slap and shuffle into American tap dance: I think the first tap dancer was a black called Old Tom or Black Tom. All this in book called 5 Points which I will try to find and send to you. Irish and the black were the lowest level of society in Old NY: from 1840s to 1860s when Tammany took over using Irish muscle.
Great Posters.
Denis
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