Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Waiting to see your Tri X. bdcolen wrote: >I haven't "gone" digital - but I borrowed an E20N from Olympus for this >shoot because I thought I needed everything virtually before I got back >- but it now turns out Newsday is scheduling the story for Labor >Day....:-(... I shot a bunch of Tri-X as well, which I'll have back >later in the week. And had the picnic/softball game/children's >games/swimming/cardgames/and cookout schedules for Saturday afternoon in >a state park not been rained out, I would have shot about 20 more rolls >of film than I did....ah well...The rain, and moving of the Saturday >stuff in doors, really put a crimp in the range of photo >possibilities.... > >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Bill >Satterfield >Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 4:06 PM >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >Subject: Re: [Leica] After hooking up with Chubby ...images > > >When did you go digital, B.D.? > >bdcolen wrote: > >>For anyone who understandably - didn't want to bother reading that last >> > >>post - there was a photo link at the very end of it....(it was a test >>to see if you'd read the copy..;-) >> >>http://www.leica-gallery.net/bdcolen/folder-3290.html >> >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >>[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of bdcolen >>Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 12:44 PM >>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >>Subject: [Leica] After hooking up with Chubby ... >> >> >>... >> >>So here goes.....the top of the story.... >>--------------------------- >>Columbia, South Carolina --- This is a story whose beginning is clouded >> > >>in a fog of oral history, wishful thinking, and family pride. And if >>the events of the last week are any indication, it is a story that will >> > >>continue to unfold for generations to come. >> >>It begins sometime in the first half of the 19th Century - no one is >>quite sure when. All that is known for sure about the date is that it >>occurred during the period when slavery was still the mainstay of the >>Cuban economy. Than and the central fact that it begins when a young >>man who was to become known as Jude Bracy was snatched from his home >>somewhere in West Africa, sold into slavery and shipped to Cuba, where >>he eventually was sold again and taken to Florida. >> >>The more romantic - or roots hungry - of Jude Bracy's decedents believe >> > >>that he had a wife and family in Africa, whom he some how brought to >>America; the more realistic believe that it was here that Jude Bracy >>fathered 11 children - Henry, Willis, Robert, James, Malachi, Simon, >>Mary, Martha, and Eva - firmly established the Bracy family in the >>piney woods of South Carolina in post Civil War America. >> >>Recently, more than 100 of the descendents of Jude Bracy came together >>in a Holiday Inn here, hard by the railroad tracks outside of town, to >>celebrate being Bracys. >> >>They came from as far away as Texas and New Mexico, Queens and >>Michigan, Boston and Staten Island, and from right here in Columbia for >> > >>the First Bracy Family Reunion. Their reunion was unique because only >>they are the Bracys, but in having a family reunion bringing far flung >>family members together, they joined the countless thousands of >>American families who hold official reunions. >> >>Some of these families, like the Bracys, have never before held a >>reunion; others come together annually. Some may gather at a picnic >>ground in an Applachian hollow; others make take their entire family >>on a cruise up the Alaskan coast. But rich, poor, or, as is usually the >> > >>case, a little of each, these families will all gather to do the same >>thing - celebrate being a family. >>------ >> >>And the first cut of the digital images...in some sort of story-line >>order.... >> >>http://www.leica-gallery.net/bdcolen/folder-3290.html >> >> >> >> >>-- >>To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html >> >>-- >>To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html >> >> > > > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html