Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/04/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Whadya mean "we demand pictures" ? Whitwell is about 130 miles east of where I live. Its about 30 miles west of Chattanooga. I drive near it fairly often when I am on my way to kayak the rivers in that area. Near where you get off Interstate Highway 24 to then go to Whitwell is the largest fireworks stand in the world I think. Its covered with neon lights and sends up a glow that can be seen for quite a ways off. Its what we call a Yankee Trap - where people from Detroit and Chicago stop to buy things that are illegal where they live - kinda like the Alligator Farms in Florida. (do they still exist?) It is the most unlikely place that I can imagine for this story to occur for exactly the reasons mentioned in the story sent in by Erminia. Driving through the area early on Sunday morning about all you can find on the radio are fundmentalist hell-fire and damnation religious shows and a little country music. That it seems so unlikely to us that it is happening in Whitwell exposes our judgemental sides in a most unflattering way. It is real and it is happening and it is really a sweet, wonderful lesson for the kids and probably a lot of adults as well. Henry >I see Kyle has been up to his pranks again. Oh God, no, it's TRUE. > >Henry Ambrose, we demand pictures. > >God Bless America! > >on 4/7/01 4:12 PM, Erminia at erminiaq@earthlink.net wrote: > >> "A Measure Of Hope >> The Whitwell, Tenn., Holocaust Project Has Spread Far Beyond the Classroom" >> >> Saturday, April 7, 2001; Page C01 >> >> >> "WHITWELL, Tenn. -- It is a most unlikely place to build a Holocaust >> memorial, much less one that would get the attention of the president, that >> would become the subject of a book, that would become an international >> cause. >> >> Yet it is here that a group of eighth-graders and their teachers decided to >> honor each of the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust by collecting 6 >> million paper clips and turning them into a sculpture. >> >> This is remarkable because, for one thing, Whitwell, a town of 1,600 tucked >> away in a Tennessee valley just west of the Smokies, has no Jews." > >-- >Johnny Deadman > >http://www.pinkheadedbug.com > > >