The Red Herring Morris Day of Dance 2002

(AKA "DoD or "The Dawd")

May 11, North Shore, Massachusetts

Morning stand, Derby Wharf, Salem

1) The assembled multitude.

2) & 3) Red Herring does "Old Gordon." (In the background of photo 2 is the Friendship, a reconstruction of a 1797 three-masted, square-rigged merchant vessel known as an "East Indiaman")

4) Heartwood Morris.

1) Bassett Street Puppies.

2) Headcorn Morris men.

3) Headcorn musicians.

4) The Bassett Street Hounds.

1) & 2) Headcorn Morris women perform "Over the Hills and Far Away" to Ian Graham's vocal accompaniment.

3) MOTley Morris.

4) MOTley musicians take "requests."

1) MOTley's Debbie Lewis.

2) Headcorn's quasi-equine compatriot Jason.

3) Red Herring musicians.

4) Headcorn Morris Men.

1) Ah, lunch at Salem Beerworks.

2) Bacca Pipes Jig, up close and personal.

3) ...followed shortly by rapper performed with table knives...

4) ...all of which can probably be explained by this collection of empty or near-empty beer pitchers.

Right, break's over, off to...