Graham Ritchie and Bob Doucet went deep into the heart of enemy country last weekend, charming their fanatically Boston Bruin-supporting hosts with soothing songs and persuading them that "Go Canucks Go!" was just a harmless medieval Celtic incantation used by the ancient Druids before downing a shot of mead. Bob Doucet was leading a band of 10 Bowen Island Black Sheep Morris Dancers to southern Vermont on the weekend. The Sheep had been invited to the prestigious Marlboro Ale, a 36-year-old large annual gathering of Cotswold Morris Dancers from all over the northeast from Toronto to New York and all points between. Bob danced and played with many of those teams when he lived in and around Boston back in the mists of time, and he seems to be quite an icon for the Morris community there.
