The League of Gnomes

From Plastic Tub

Fashionable group of Poets and wayward mystics seemingly gathered to harrass the establishment, the revolution, the avant-garde and the Accidental Associationalists, especially their journal Reticent 27.

The League was founded in 1943 in New York City and had spread to Philadelphia, Boston, Richmond and Washington, D.C. by 1945. Each city consisted of a "Grotto" comprised of anywhere between three (the minimum) and 13 (the maximum). Grottos weren't independent and answered to the authority of the New York Grotto.

By 1937 Grottos existed in Lebanon, London, Toulouse, Paris, Milan, Naples, Madrid, Bucharest and Cairo.

Grotto activity was limited during the Second World War but from 1950 to 1970 the League of Gnomes' growth remained steady. A series of highly publicised altercations with the The League of Men with Fancy Gloves caused them to cease their public activity in early 1971. Although they are known to have Grottos in nearly every major city in the world, their current membership and raison d'être remains unknown.

The three grades of The League of Gnomes are Troglodyte, Kthonoïd and Noble.

Publications

Unusually prolific, League of Gnomes grottos each produce publications of local interest the most influential of which is probably "NookenCranny", the mouthpiece of the Akron, Ohio grotto.