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♪ party are being in the house tonight ♪ everyone just have a good time. ainsley: thats going to be our house next week. brian: party in the house tonight, everyone should have a good time. ainsley: you should be telling your kids dont ever have fun. dont have a party. dont celebrate l.a. very boring life your house sounds fun,. brian: brian thats the wrong message. ainsley: you didnt grow up in the earhardt household. when there was a party it was fun. my parents were very, very social. the...

Flappers, jazz, jitterbug, and the urbanization of america. the square dance was quickly becoming obsolete. and but for one man, it just might have faded away for good. industrialist henry ford, founder of the ford motor company made it his mission to save what had been reduced to a fad. ford set out to reintroduce square dancing to the country by sponsoring community dances, programs in public schools and colleges nationwide, and in nationally syndicated radio show, featuring legendary dance ca...

State dance. in 1982, president ronald reagan signed an act making square dancing the official folk dance. then there was yet ood cross roads. the popularity of line dancing. still, square dancing survives. >> we dont bring in too many young people. a lot of the middle-aged people are busy with their children. i would say we have some in their 50s and 40s. most of us are 60 and above. >> in part two of our look to save square dancing, youll meet the new faces of the oldest art forms and the dive...

Industrialist henry ford, founder of the ford motor company, made it his mission to save what had been reduced to a fad. ford set out to reintroduce square dancing to the country. by sponsoring community dances, programs in public schools and colleges nation wide and a nationally syndicated radio show featuring legendary dance caller benjamin levitt. >> couples, forward and back. >> reporter: ford wanted the country to have something different than the roaring 20s. several states have designated...