1985-2005 -- Twenty Years of Capers!

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Mayfield Morris and Sword is a women's Morris dancing team from Palo Alto, California. Founded in 1985 by Jody McGeen, formerly of New York's Ring o' Bells Morris, Mayfield is well known in the San Francisco Bay Area, and across the country, for its elegant, precision dancing, its raspberry vests, and its spirit of fun. And now we've got an elegant, precise, raspberry web page, which we hope you find fun (or, at the very least, informative).

Yeah, we darn well better have a web page, seeing as how we're located in the heart of Silicon Valley. In fact, the "Mayfield" in our name is a reference to the town of Mayfield, a hard-drinking, hard-partying city that refused to ban liquor in response to Leland and Jane Stanford's requests. So, the Stanfords founded a new town, Palo Alto, where they banned alcohol, and all the students would go over to the town of Mayfield when they wanted to get schnockered. Palo Alto and Mayfield merged in 1925, and the Mayfield area (California Avenue and environs, to locals) remains a popular spot for Stanford MBAs, local dotcom (ex-)millionaires, social activists, and drunken revelers staggering over from the university campus (still!). We'll leave it to the reader to further speculate on the synergies between the team and the town. . .

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