A Dance Called America

Journey from the Isle of Skye to the Deep South, to the Rockies and beyond. A dance was devised in eighteenth-century Skye. An exhilarating dance. A dance, a visitor reports, 'the emigration from Skye has occasioned'. The visitor asks for the dance's name. 'They call it America,' he's told. Over a period of three centuries, many thousands of people left the islands and wider north of Scotland to m...