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

["bdcolen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

Then they fail as pictures...;-)

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



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 ...
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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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