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Subject: Re: [Leica] After hooking up with Chubby ...images
From: Bill Satterfield <cwsat@istate.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 15:06:18 -0500
References: <000a01c247b5$2cdeb240$690110ac@ccasony01>

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
>
>
>
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