Dancing at the Warm Springs Hotel

Dancing at the Warm Springs Hotel

For more than a half a century, thousands of men, women, and children

vacationed at the Warm Springs Hotel to enjoy lavish entertainment, bathe in therapeutic mineral waters, and socialize away from society’s rigid complexities at home.

After the Civil War, the hotel thrived at a time of southern remembrance, clannish loyalty, elegance and sophistication.

It was a resort renowned for serious matchmaking and secret rendezvous, pool parties and fancy-dress balls, a time of indulgence before the world faced war and depression in the next century.

The narrative propels the reader into an era of affluence in an elite Southern resort during a time of transition from enslavement to entrepreneurship in the local Black community.

Rare photography of men women at work and play in both communities, create an  unforgettable realism.