Rich Holmes

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Preferred email

rsh_doomd@richholmes.net

Address

3949 Griffin Road Syracuse, NY 13215

Phone

315-214-3840 (h)

Teams

Present: American Travelling Morrice <http://www.tc.cornell.edu/~mitchell/atm-intro.html> (2003-) Binghamton Morris Men, Binghamton, NY (2002-) Grindstone Creek Morris <http://www.richholmes.net/gcm/index.html> (formerly Griffin's Corners), Parish, NY (2001-; Squire, Fore, and one-third of the membership) Thornden Morris <http://www.weavemaker.com/morris/>, Syracuse, NY (1989-; Bag)

Past: Flying Bark Morris, Newport News, VA (1997-1999; former Squire, former Assistant Fore) Salt Springs Morris <http://www.richholmes.net/gcm/index.html>, Syracuse, NY (1996-2001; former Bag, former Squire) Ribbonsteel Rapper, Syracuse, NY (1987-ca. 1991) Bassett Street Hounds <http://purl.oclc.org/net/hounds>, Syracuse, NY (1986-1996; former Squire, former Adderbury Fore)

Web page URL

http://www.richholmes.net/

Traditions

Cotswold: Bampton, Adderbury, Oddington, Wheatley, Saltington, Griffin's Corners, Chipping Campden, Ducklington; bits of Fieldtown, Bledington; nearly forgotten Headington. Border: Some Red Stags dances; Hounds' variants of Shropshire Bedlams' “Morning Star”; Flying Bark's versions of Dilwyn, Upton Snodsbury, and Brimfield; Flying Bark's “Requiem for Mister Ed”; Upton Hankie and “Upton” (Chingford) Stick. Rapper: In my troubled youth.

Morris instruments

2-row melodeon 1-row pennywhistle

Beasts and fools

Homeless goat

Beer preference

Griffin Road Homebrew

Anything else that needs to be said

Collector of orphaned squeezeboxes, good morris books, and bad pub/campfire songs.