[Leica] Fw: Back from Portadown

["David Medley" <dmedley@whidbey.net>]

Good morning to all,

I thought perhaps some of you would be interested in the antics of our very
own Georgette Oden on her way to fame and glory. If you will recall, she is
the part time law student from Texas trying to be the full time
photojournalist. I am on her mailing list while she is attending Trinity
College in Ireland and she has assured me that upon her return, she will
have lots of stories to tell of the young girl and her M-6. I have not asked
her permission to post this (I will ) but I doubt that she would mind.


Cheers,
David Medley
Whidbey Is.   WA
USA
dmedley@whidbey.net

Date: Monday, July 06, 1998 5:05 AM
Subject: Back from Portadown


>Hi all-- I'm back safely in Dublin after a sometimes exciting, sometimes
>boring weekend watching the standoff in Portadown, Northern Ireland.  At
>issue, a contentious parade of Protestant "Orangemen" through the
>Catholic neighborhood and Garvaghy Road (gahr-VAH-hee).  I stayed with a
>Catholic family on Garvaghy Road itself and took quite a few pictures,
>made a few friends, and managed to escape an altercation with some
>Orangemen who did not want me to photograph them throwing rocks at the
>RUC and British Army.  I'm fine, back in class (Scalia is awesome) and
>will be back in Portadown Thursday night, on my way to Belfast.
>
>I would write more but I've had about 12 hours of sleep in the last 72
>hours and I need some food.  Hope everything is going well in your
>respective parts of the world;  I'll be in touch.
>
>Love,
>gigi
>