About The Company of The Green Man
The Company of the Green Man was founded by Ronald Millar in 1998.
The Company of the Green Man gathers, archives and makes freely available information, images and folklore about the green man in his varied forms and supports current traditions that feature the green man and the Jack-in-the-Green worldwide. We also promote artists and writers who feature the green man in their work and assist where possible the protection and preservation of architectural images of the green man. We are in the process of creating the largest and most accurate gazetteer of green men ever produced.
We also provide a point of contact and discussion for all those fascinated by the enigma that is The Green Man through our e-newsletter Web Site, Flickr Site and this blog. We also publish a twice yearly e-newsletter for all our members.
Membership of The Company of The Green Man is free. Just e-mail us at greenman@virgin.net with your details and you will be added to the list of members.
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.
It was I, who, keen and eager upon reading his freshly printed book and with an avid interest in green men 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 I felt it my duty to continue the great work that Ron Began and to re-awaken The Company of the Green Man. For more information about the Company of the Green Man please feel free to wander around this blog and visit our website at:
