Abstract Ann Marie Blessin recounts her early years growing up in Scotland and Canada. By the age of 13, Blessin was teaching dance, and was certified to teach Highland dancing as well as tap dancing. Blessin's grandmother wanted her to pursue a career as a nurse so she enrolled in nursing school, but never finished the degree. She talks about teaching tap dancing for the Linkletter/Tauten Dance Studio in Arizona and then in Denver, Colorado. Blessin discusses her involvement in sacred dance that...

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This box contains (2) tapes with oral histories from 2006: Ann Marie Blessin and Marda Kirn.