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From: "MaryLynn M." <>
Subject: Re: [NTH] H. ALDRIDGE of Brackley
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 14:22:03 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <8b.1d886bb.27ab2845@aol.com>


do you or anyone know more about this mumming? I live
just north of Philadelphia, PA and every New Year's
Day, Philly has a huge, day long event called the
Mummers Parade. Different clubs perform for prizes
for costuming, string band music with skits, etc.
It's very beautiful, but the thing that makes it the
Mummers Parade is the Mummers strut. Every year the
tv announcers discuss possible origins of the parade.
Is this similar?
--- wrote:
>
> At Brackley one H. ALDRIDGE was interviewed in 1933
> about the old Christmas
> custom of mumming. Can anyone kindly tell me
> anything about this man?
>
> And if any reader has memories or family stories
> concerning this custom I
> would be delighted to hear from them.
>
> Yours,
>
> Keith Chandler
> Oxfordshire
>
>
> ==== NORTHANTS Mailing List ====
> Althorpe, Northampton. Home of Diana Spencer,
> Princess of Wales.
>


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