This year's ball was held on January 12, 2013 and was hosted entirely by the Friends of Rockwood. It was a huge success.

This year's ball was held on February 25, 2012 and was hosted entirely by the Friends of Rockwood. It was a huge success.

We turned back the hands of time and enjoyed an evening of popular, mid-to -late 19th Century ballroom dancing.  It was an opportunity for everyone to dress in their finest apparel, hob-nob with Civil War “Admirals” & Generals” and meet “Royalty.”  Rumor has it that Queen Victoria came incognito and later donned her blue sash and danced the Circassian Circle Waltz.  This event was attended by people from the Delaware Valley, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Virginia and New York and one dress was as beautiful as the next.  We have some very talented sewers among this group of Civil War Dance enthusiasts. 

The Tapestry Historic Dance Ensemble offered instruction in 19th Century dances such as the Ballroom Waltz and Hillgrove Trio, not to mention the Circassian Circle Waltz.  The music was performed by String Theory and was just as wonderful as it was last year, if not more so.  They are extremely talented musicians and we were very lucky to have them perform for us. 

Miss “Eliza Blackwell Dupree” offered instruction on the customs and etiquette of Victorian courtship including the most popular flowers appropriate for a tussie-mussie…now I challenge you to find out what a tussie-mussie is if you weren’t at the Ball.