Ruth Olmsted

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Preferred email

olmstedrm@gmail.com

Address

43 Riverview Rd. Clifton Park NY 12065 USA

Phone

518-209-1568 ©

Teams

Pokingbrook Morris (Albany NY) (current women's fore, former long-term squire and sometime bag)

Traditions

Cotswold: Fieldtown, Bampton, Ducklington, Lichfield, Beverwyck, Wheaton Under Glenmont, and smatterings of Bledington, Bucknell, Sherborne. Distant muscle memories of Headington, Hinton, Oddington Border: Assorted Sword: Kirkby Malzeard, Ampleforth misc. others if pushed Rapper: Reduced to workshop status by lack of use Abbots Bromley

Morris instruments

Pennywhistle Pipe and tabor Fiddle

Beasts and fools

Not usually

Beer preference

Dark English ale – something that comes close to Newman's Albany Amber

Anything else that needs to be said

If you learned morris dancing in the 1970s and early 80s, in Ohio or Iowa through Girl Scouts or college, you may have learned it from me!