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Subject: RE: [Leica] After hooking up with Chubby ...images
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 09:18:45 -0400

So am I..;-)

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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 5:11 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] After hooking up with Chubby ...images


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
>>
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>>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
>>
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>>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
>>
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>>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
>>
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>>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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