The Green Children of Woolpit

Jenny of the Somewhere in Time blog left a memory in comments of visiting Woolpit in Suffolk, where the green brother and sister appeared in the Twelfth Century. The boy died, The girl's color faded with time, and she learned to speak English - she claimed they came from St. Martin's Land, underground. Jenny's book The Mystery of Lewis Carroll will be published in The U.S. February 2, and in the U.K. March 1. Jayne Harnett-Hargrove has a series of portraits painted on musical notation which probably suggested my painting on these pages. The little bits of fabric are shavings from the borders of the Christmas present.

I have painted this on the pages of a disintegrating book I got at a garage sale, no cover and much stained, but illustrated withe beautiful engravings. Here is one with a little text.

What a wonderful world, to have green children appear, or a man named Mr. Green, at sunset, in a balloon.