Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Let us all lift a glass and down a pint to "Naked Grannies" everywhere. A very sobering sight I'm sure. Cheers Wilber GFE OAO2 The reason I stay around is for insights like this, Thank you John Collier!! John Collier wrote: > I grew up in the small town of Castlegar, British Columbia in Canada. We > were a typical resource industry town, with one exception, a very large > population of Russian religious emigrants called Doukabours. Charming people > really but, as with any large religious group, there was a small splinter > group as well, quite violent in the early twenties, called "The Sons of > Freedom". > > They believed in the purity of the natural state and that possessions and > "trappings" were sent from the "other" guy to distract their worship of the > "not other" guy. As with most firmly held beliefs, a great deal of time was > taken up with destroying unbeliever's possessions which annoyed the local > authorities to no end. So after a S of F helped a unbeliever to rid > themselves of their possessions, by burning down their houses, the local > authorities would pack them off to prison. This precipitated hunger strikes > by the prisoners and, of course, protest marches by those not yet > incarcerated or just released. > > What is the point of this long build up? Well one fact I forgot to mention > was that the Doukabours had a very starchy diet were usually about as wide > as they were tall. During the protests the ladies would start singing hymns > and get quite stirred up and feel very close to the "not other" guy, faster > than you could say beached whale, off came the clothes. Strangely, it was > always the ladies not the men! Hmm, perhaps there are nuances of the sects > beliefs I am not completely familiar with. In the twenties and thirties I am > sure the sight of hard working farm girls getting close to their maker would > have been moving indeed; however, by the time I came along, in the sixties > and seventies, it was a sight indeed! > > The whole thing was pretty tragic at the end. The not very little old ladies > in their late seventies or eighties going on hunger strikes until the > authorities couldn't stand the guilt any more, but, the first thing the > ladies they would do when released would be to get the matches and head over > to the neighbours! Back to jail with the grannies. More protests and > excitement would result. The sight of a group of grannies in the buff was > very sobering to this adolescent and may well have gone a long way to > explaining the rather low number of unwed mothers in the area. > > I hope you do not mind this long OT comment especially as I actually could > not bring myself to look at the pictures. Brings back too many painful > memories. :-) > > John Collier > > > From: brian stevens <BrianDavidStevens@excite.com> > > > > Hi guys and gals > > sorry for lurking recently, have been busy! new work just for kyle at > > http://35mmf8.org/naked/index.htm > > the whole site has moved to > > http://35mmf8.org > > enjoy and sorry about the spam! > >