Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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