Comments on: Kindred of the Kibbo Kift

By: admin

admin — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 22:21:14 +0000

Ben
Thank you for sharing this story. It is much appreciated.
best
Matthew De Abaitua

By: Ben Crick

Ben Crick — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 22:14:40 +0000

Your picture of the young man with the football rattle is my father, Edward Denton Crick
born 1901. He was a Boy Scout, Bushman’s Thong and King’s Scout. He joined the Kibbo Kift
in his twenties. His appearance at the Long Man in 1929 was probably his last, having married my mother in 1928. He did not speak much about the KK, but he retained a very high regard for “White Fox”, its founder.

By: Jon - Grey Raven

Jon - Grey Raven — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:58:27 +0000

Hi Math, Thanks for the speedy response. I’m glad to have had the chance to keep the history straight. I’ve put another response along similar lines on the HiLo site to a piece by Matthew de Abaitua. I said there and I’ll say it to you that I’d be happy to share a bit of first hand knowledge of the KK and SCP.
Jon GR

By: admin

admin — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:03:14 +0000

Jon
Many thanks for pointing this out to me. I’ll fix it. My entire essay on the Kindred is in the new issue of The Idler, Back to the Land, although I am happy to email a copy to you (unfortunately The Idler only gave me one copy of the book). I am working on a proposal for a book about camping in which I hope to include and expand my preliminary research into the Kindred that powered this book.

By: Jon Tacey

Jon Tacey — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:43:39 +0000

Good to see this piece about the Kindred. Well done! But, that’s not Will Scarlet. I should know he was my father. This is a continuation of the mistake made by the Museum of London when they had the exhibit about the Kibbo Kift. The picture is of the Gleemaster – Hawk. A wonderful man who wrote much of the material in the KK songbook. Now there’s a resource worth accessing and there are recordings about in which Hawk and his daughter sang them all.
Jon- Grey Raven