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for the judges in the late afternoon, and the big supper at midnight. The dance would start about eight o’clock in the evening and would finish up about five o'clock in the morning, some of the farmer boys had big heads the next day. our family was small then, only five children, there was Joseph, Elizabeth and Frank, they were born in Springfield. Dad and Mother had a farm on Springfield Blvd. about three miles from Elmont, sister Ann and I were born here. The farmers had a spring dance, no parade, at this time I was about 18 years old and remember tending bar for John Herman who had the place at that time, this was also a big time for the boys, when I was about 22 years old I took Ann to one of these dances with Barb, Christ, Pete Lyman. On the