Morris Dancing is anything but down-to-earth! And we hope that the stories we tell will be the same. Although the whole of society is grounded, and sent to its room, we can escape via cyberspace - you don't even need a wardrobe, just a laptop or a smartphone, and the magic code, which is this
The Zoom meeting will start at 7.30 on Thursday 21st May, our usual 3rd Thursday slot, and carry on till we're all told-out - we welcome tellers and listeners who may not be able to get to real Ringwood, but only need a click to get to the virtual one.
Be inspired by the past - by Maypoles - Robin Hood - Chaucer - whatever!
Hope to see you there!
Adderbury Morris in 1908, a boys' side especially revived for Empire Day [the last performance of the old side had been in 1880] by 21-year-old Frances Etrenne Hoskyns of Cotefield House, and Mr and Mrs Walker, the school headmaster and his wife, on the basis of Cecil Sharp's book of 1907. Cutting edge historically informed performance!
Of the boys in the picture who went to war in 1914 only Charlie Coleman, front second on right, returned.
The way things used to be.
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