Rich Holmes's Morris Site

This is Rich Holmes's contribution to the ever-increasing genre of morris dancing related sites on the WWW: A collection of stuff having to do with what morris dancing is, isn't, and oughta be. Verifiable facts are liberally seasoned with my own opinions (not necessarily those of The American Travelling Morris, The Binghamton Morris Men, Griffin's Corners Morris, Thornden Morris, or anyone else) and garnished with a few outright lies. Read on.

Available here are:

• In general...
  • What isn't morris?
  • All right, so what IS morris?
  • The Normal Person's Guide to the Morris
• Dances
  • Border morris dances
  • Salt Springs Morris dances (PDF format)
• Directories
  • Morris teams directory (on the Morris dancing wiki)
  • Directory of Online Morris Dancers (DOOMD)
  • Mainly Morris Dancing
• Morris in Syracuse
  • Morris dancing in Syracuse, New York
  • Thornden Morris
  • Bassett Street Hounds
  • Salt Springs Morris (now defunct)
  • Griffin's Corners Morris (formerly Grindstone Creek, formerly Griffin's Corners)
• Origins and history
  • A discussion of the origin and history of morris dancing
  • What's known about the earliest morris in Europe
  • A Cotswold morris map
  • Morris dancer's pronouncing gazetteer
  • The Ladies Go Dancing at Whitsun. Or do they?
  • Pre-1980s morris in North America
  • The history of "Lass of Richmond Hill"
• Literary morris
  • Cervantes
  • Jonson
  • Pratchett
  • Shakespeare
• Music
  • Ducklington tunes
• Miscellany
  • An explanation of beasts and fools in the morris
  • The Morris Book, by Cecil Sharp (Project Gutenberg ebook from the 1907 edition)
  • Morris dancing wiki
  • Naff/Twee/Sad Morris Survey
  • Tradition statistics
• The Morris Dancing Discussion List
• MDDL archive
• MorrisContent -- A "morris content only" edition of the MDDL digest.