The Rock Creek Morris Women began as a group of women dancing as a separate side of the Foggy Bottom Morris in the spring of 1978. Among them were Nancy Taylor, Joyce Harrell, Lisa Kornberg, and our first foreman, Mary Chor. In 1979, the former Foggy Bottom Women announced the formation of the Rock Creek Morris team, Washington’s first official, independent women’s morris team.
In those first years, as now, we began the season with a tour on the vernal equinox, followed by a day of dance to celebrate the cherry blossoms. Other early performances included Easter parades and May festivals, the Renaissance fair in Columbia, MD, the Bluemont Town Fair and the Charlottesville Fall Festival in Virginia.
Rock Creek hosted the first of many delightful Quail Ales at Quail Hill Farm in Brinklow, MD in June 1984. Rock Creek's short-lived but fabulous youth team, the Dandelions, debuted at the Quail Ale in 1991, and both teams traveled to the UK for the first time in 1992.
Adventures in the Pacific Northwest - 2009
In August 2009, Rock Creek traveled to the Pacific Northwest to meet up with friends old and new. We missed our pals the Mossyback Morris Men, but spent time in Seattle with Sound and Fury Morris and a small but enthusiastic band of dancers from Renegade Rose and Bridgetown Morris Men of Portland, OR. We traveled on to Victoria, Vancouver, and Bowen Island, BC, dancing with Island Thyme, Quicksbottom Morris Men, and Hollytree Morris in Victoria, the Vancouver Morris Men and Tiddley Cove Morris in Vancouver, and the Bowen Island Black Sheep.
Rock Creek at Thirty!
In September 2009, the Rock Creek Morris Women celebrated 30 years with a quality party at our old haunt, Quail Hill. Teams from near and far came to party and tour with us around Montgomery County, MD and in Fells Point, Baltimore.