Re: [Leica] After hooking up with Chubby ...images

["Steve LeHuray" <icommag@toad.net>]

B.D. writes:

> 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
>
...I read the whole thing...looked at the pictures too, which will probably
make sense or be better when there are captions attached.

sl

> Subject: [Leica] After hooking up with Chubby ...
>
>
> ...
>
> So here goes.....the top of the story....
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> 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
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