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The Al-thing of the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift

At Whitsun, the great meeting of all the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift took place. Named the Al-Thing, it was a group camp of 60 to 70 men and women and their children in over a hundred tents, arranged in a semi-circle on a large flat common bordered by a wood.

Kindred of the Kibbo Kift

They were the most intriguing and inspiring of English reform movements, an elite cell a few hundred strong, already nine years into their existence come the occasion of the dedication to the Long Man of Wilmington: they were the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift and they loved camping.