Not knowing the first thing about Morris Dancing or its history here in America, I was surprised when going through the online catalog of old Fox Newsreels from the 1920's at the University of South Carolina Newsfilm Library to discover a clip several minutes long of morris dancers recorded at Hastings-on-Hudson NY in 1929. So, I ordered a copy along with some other things I was interested in.

I watched it twice today, and it seems to be a "staged" session (i.e. for the camera) with several dances all done to the fiddling of a young woman. I will be posting it to YouTube as soon as I get an approved-for-publication (watermarked) second copy from USC, hopefully in the next week or so.

In the meantime, would these dancers have been here from England for a visit &/or some kind of public performance, or would this have likely been a local group of Hudson Valley NY folks keeping an old English tradition going in the new world, or ??