Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ahhhh, delicious......eager trepidation. And why do you need 6 cameras? Godspeed ......BD.... Steve > So I'm sitting in my cubical in the Manhattan PR office, trying to kill > time until I take the 9 p.m. Staten Island Ferry inorder to meet a man > named "Chubby" in the McDonalds at the Staten Island terminal. > > If all goes as planned - BIG IF - Chubby and I will be picked up by one > of three 12 passenger vans which, having begun their trip in Queens, NY, > will travel through the night toward Columbia, South Carolina, for the > first reunion of members of the Bracy family, a clan of black Americans > who have traced their roots back to about 1800 and a slave/witch doctor > on a plantation outside Columbia. > > Should we survive the drive, the festivities begin at 6 p.m. Friday with > a buffet dinner at a Holiday Inn where family members are staying, > followed by the presentation of a birthday cake to the 96-year-old > matriarch of the Bracy family - the youngest reunion attendee is > one-year-old. Family members will assemble a family quilt, and will then > boogee on down with a DJ until midnight or so. > > Saturday begins with a trip to the church founded by the > great-great-great-great grandfather of the woman who put this reunion > together, the church where countless Bracy's are buried, and the church > where the 96-year-old went to school as a little girl. > > The visit to the church will be followed from 1-9 p.m. with a get > together in a state park, where family members will barbeque two whole > hogs, have a card tournament, run games for the kids, and, if luck is > with them, play a softball game with another family having a reunion > there that day. > > Sunday it's back into the vans for the drive back to New York for the > New York area family members and me, your intrepid LUGer, lugging three > Ms, two F100s, lenses galore, an Olympus E20 N digital camera, and 50 > rolls of Tri-X and 10 of Delta 3200. > > What I haven't figured out yet, is how to focus and shoot in my sleep - > and whether there really will be a guy named Chubby meeting me at the > McDonalds at the Staten Island Ferry Terminal.:-) > > B. D. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html