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Subject: RE: [Leica] After hooking up with Chubby ...images
From: "bdcolen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 15:17:52 -0400

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


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Subject: [Leica] After hooking up with Chubby ...


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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. 
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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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