Summary: Vol. 32 Issue 2

Published: July 2013

Table of contents

• Image of Morris by Tony Forster
• History of Clog Making in Lancashire by Michael Jackson
• A Very English Winter – a Review by George Frampton
• Berkshire Bedlam at the Marlboro Ale 2013 by Malcolm Major
• We Have Our Uses! – The Morris in Conceptual Art – Observations by George Frampton
• The Morris Wars by Derek Schofield
• Where Have All the Researchers Gone? by George Frampton
• Dance with Dommett – Take 2 by Denise Allen
• American Film Archive by Jan Elliott
• DERT 2013 – we are the champions! by Sally Wearing
• Updating Morris: the leaked report by Long Lankin
• Roger Ring Morris

Editorial

There is a fair bit in here about researchers past and present and who will be carrying this on in the future… there always seems to be something new to be unearthed both in the UK and abroad. The morris world seems to be very active over in the USA & Canada – both in research, and in dancing. As I write I know that Morris Offspring are heading over the water and joining forces with Maple Morris for a series of performances. If they are anything like their last collaboration it should be very exciting and inspiring.

From the USA I was also alerted to the death of Arthur Cornelius – his obituary can be found at http://www.cdss.org/tl_files/cdss/newsletter_archives/supplements/winter-2012
2013_obits_online.pdf [no longer available] – there is also an obituary of Ivor Allsop in the same article (already recorded in vol 32-1)

When I read Tony Forster’s article about the image of morris, it rang strong echoes with an interview I heard with Eliza Carthy who was saying that when she started performing, she felt that her audience was mainly her parents’ friends ie not her own age group. Within my own team we do have several young people but there is then an age gap between 30 and 50!

So what will we look like in 10 years…… and what are all the 30 to 50 year olds doing?

Beth

One researcher celebrates:

Roy Dommett celebrated his 80th birthday (25 June) with a party for family, colleagues and friends. There was a performance from Fleet Morris, one of the many teams he has been involved with over the years, a mummers play performed by members of the Dommett family and a short talk from Roy himself reflecting on his life. To reflect his career in defence and rocketry as well as his lifelong passion for morris, his birthday cake had a large silver rocket on top, with appropriate morris icons around the side and at the end of the evening rockets were fired….