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Morris Dancing

One time, I was out on a Green Dress Run with the Salt Lake HHH. We were cruising through a park, in green dresses, singing and whooping it up. We happened upon the SCA dudes going at it with their swords and armor, and both groups saluted each other. A lot of communication happened in those ten anonymous seconds… basically, we all said “You guys are nuts, and what you do is silly… but you know what? we’re nuts too, and what we do is probably even sillier.”

Subcultures are wonderful, and Brattleboro seems to understand that more than most places. And so, today, we have the 37th Marlboro Morris Ale, a convocation of several hundred Morris dancers. From gawky teens to persons well up in the white hair stage of life, hundreds of dancers converged on our area today to jump around in the heat in their funny jingle-bell costumes and play their archaic instruments.

It’s silly… and we’re so glad for that.