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Jack in the green am I and master have I none, for whilst there are trees upon this land the woods shall be my home. To the seasons kings I bow my head as they do bow to me for my faces are as many as the leaves upon a tree |
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About the Company of the Green Man (Founded 1998) Membership is free just e-mail us your name and County (or if outside the UK your name and Country) and you will be added to the list of members. We will not share your e-mail address or any other information with any third parties without your prior permission Ronald Millar wrote the book The Green Man Companion and Gazetteer in 1997 and in a note at the back of the book invited interested people to join The Company of the Green Man and thus (with a little bit of encouragement) The Company Began. Members enjoyed receiving copies of Ron's Newsletters from Number 1 in September 1998 up until number 27 in September 2005. Many of us assumed that Ron was having some of his usual technological troubles with issue 28 and waited patiently for it to appear, but alas it never did. Sadly Ron passed away in early 2006. His wonderful sense of humour, his aversion to technology and his fascination with what he once described to me as “these mysterious green chaps” will be missed by us all. Keen and eager upon reading his freshly printed book and with an avid fascination in all things green man I wrote to Ron in early 1998 and asked to join the Company to be told that I had caught him slightly unprepared. The book had gone out earlier than he had anticipated and the Company did not yet officially exist! Seven Months later it was flourishing! And so three years after Newsletter 27 in November 2008 I felt it my duty to continue the great work that Ron Began and to re-awaken The Company of the Green Man. I hope that these pages will continue on from where Ron and the Company left off. Sadly the original membership list seems to have been lost, but I am still trying to contact as many of the original members as possible and gain permission to reproduce some of the original articles and observations as well as including new articles and perhaps a few of your own stories about Ronald himself on our Green Man Blog. We have already built and are constantly adding to the Gazetteer and have gone further by creating an interactive and extensive flickr photographic library and accompanying map of as many Green Men as possible. We don’t intend to charge for membership, Ron only did so to cover printing and postage costs. Instead we are going to keep an up to list of books on the Green Man and related subjects on the Green Man shop page, all purchases made from Amazon UK through these links will cost you nothing extra but will earn the website a small referral fee which hopefully will help to cover costs and keep these pages free. Our 2010 Green Man Calendar is also available now through our Cafepress shop Those wishing to advertise within these pages are also welcome to contact us. As well as the Green Man Blog Flickr site and Interactive Map we also intend to produce an e-newsletter for all members (details to follow soon) I’m not sure about the technological leap to cyberspace, but I would like to think that like the Green Man himself Ron is looking down upon us and would approve of the continuation of The Company of the Green Man |