The Iola Reads celebration will offer a festive glimpse of life in early 19th century Britain Saturday.
A Recency Rave Dance party will run from 7 to 8 :30 p.m. Saturday at the John Silas Bass North Community Building.
The dance party is in honor of author Jane Austen’s 250th birthday.
Austen penned “Pride and Prejudice,” this year’s Iola Reads selection.
A Regency dance refers to the social dances popular around 1820, otherwise known as the Regency Era.
The dances are often considered the forerunners to square dances, with members…
