Thanks, Bob, for your detailed look at this formation. An earlier use of this dance formation, and the earliest one I know, is the Weston Mt. Zia, written by Daniel Clark ten years ago. Details are here:
http://fam.bmi.net/zia.htm There were a series of posts discussing this dance back in January of 1999; a search on rec.folk-dancing for "Walla Walla Wunder" will bring you to the list, which included a discussion of possible English country dance antecedents of this formation, and a similar dance that came to Nick Hawes in a dream. David Millstone Lebanon, NH
