Maryland Monroe
by Sue McKinnell 3X32 Strathspey for 3C set dance
Bars
1-8	1C dance a figure of 8 down around 2C.
9-12	1C dance down between 2C and 3C and cast up to 2nd place. 2C step up on bars 11-12.
13-16	1C turn LH 3/4 to end in lines across, 1W down between 3C and 1M up between 2C. All set.
17-24	All advance and retire up and down the dance then dance set and link for 3 couples. End 2W, 1W, 3W on the M's; 2M, 1M, 3M on the W's.
25-32	All turn partners RH once round and chase CW halfway.
Repeat from new positions.
Suggested music is The Dumfries Lad from Auld Friends Meet Volume 2 by Muriel Johnstone.
Years ago when I was in high school a good friend told me about a class his uncle was taking in how to use visualization to help remember a list. Then he told me about the one his uncle used to remember the original 13 colonies in the order in which they joined the union. The seventh image is described “sitting on the mass of ice is Maryland Monroe” (Maryland). It’s now 60+ years later and I still remember the whole sequence, so I decided to use the phrases as titles for some dances; this is the seventh of those dances.
	08/25