NEWS!
| This
year we will be holding our 100th Tour!
Subject to final plans this will be
in Kampala, Uganda and will mark St George's Day | An
on-line 'Google map' of the Tours is now available,
as is the Google 'photo album'.Congratulations
to Peter Lund MBE for his recent elevation in the New Year's Honours.
The Ancient Men would not exist without him!
(nor would Jack-in-the-Green,
or the mummers etc.)
- If you would like more information
about joining OUMM or are a former member please complete the CONTACT
form or e-mail The Squire: Squire@am39.com.
- Practices
take place on Wednesday evenings from 7.30pm to 9.00pm at St Barnabas School in
Jerico from October to April, alternating with Oxford City Morris Men on a weekly
basis. New members are always welcome.
50 Years
young and still going strong!The Ancient Men undertook
their first tour in 1952 which was based at Fairford, Gloucestershire in collaboration
with The Travelling Morrice. Since then they toured far and wide, from New Mexico
to Japan; more than 90 tours and 11 countries. In 2002 there
was a tour of Croatia, as guests at the Korcula Sword Dance Festival, and to celebrate
our Golden Jubilee we revisited the very first tour during August, accompanied
by The Travelling Morrice. This year's apperances (with
Oxford City Morris Men): Tours: - Kampala,
Uganda, tbc, April
- Tavistock & the Tamar, July/August
Last
year's tour: - Madiera, Sword Dance Festival, 13 - 15 July
- Republic
of Ireland, 29 July - 5 August
- The Solent, August, 17 - 19 August
Previous
year's tours: -
Ancient Wiltshire
30 July - 6 August
2006, Tour 96.
Happy
Chaps on the Wiltshire Tour. ('photos Tim Hutton) 
Contact
details:"The Squire"
Neil "Mac" McKay: e-mail: Squire
@am39.com
"The Cyber-Squre/Bagman"
Gerard
Robinson: e-mail: CyberSquire @am39.com "International
Tours"
Prof. John Forrest: e-mail: International
@am39.com
Information regarding activies in the area, including
a list of local morris sides, can be obtained from: Oxfordshire
Folk Association
Footnotes:
- ' Tradition is a burden imposed by the dead on the living.' Radio 4, Today
Programme, 1996
- 'Not every tradition, however entrenched, is attractive.
Some should be closed down immediately.' Anon.
- 'Mutliplicanda non
sunt rea plurima quam oportet' - William of Occam
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