The flow of goods allowed the village to connect with the outside world and flourish during the Middle Ages.
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Catherine Sabino,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
All together, this combination of costumes and period dance — with waltz music by Johann Strauss I — created a vision of a long-ago time in Europe or America, when balls and village dances provided a key way for people to socialize.
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