News From Browntown

Norma Rae Lives!
I guess all those years of being surrounded by labor icons including George Meany's portrait in PawPaw's office and the famous poster of Salley Field as Norma Rae posted in my office got to Emmalee. Our very own Norma Rae joined the picket line last night along with her brother and sister union musicians and other assorted union members (including some IBEW members who always show up to support a picket line for any of their labor brothers and sisters). Apparently Emma and the President of the IBEW Atlanta Local had quite an interesting chat as they walked the picket line together carrying their picket signs.

Click on this link for the Atlanta Journal Constitution story -
http://www.ajc.com/search/content/lvballet1026a.html
Emma was interviewed for this article but her comments did not make the cut - which is okay because she was there and did her part! You go, girl!
Paw Paw would be so proud.

News From Browntown

News From Browntown
It is going to be very, very quiet on the compound for the next couple of days. Dad is in South Carolina and Grammy has gone to Williamsburg. Just Cleo and me to hold down the fort in the cold!

What can I say?

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The Weekend That Was.....On Rupley

So this weekend literally had too much going on to pack into a blog entry, so Ill let the pictures speak for themselves. Friday night, was our big shindig we had for friends of ours, as well as the neighbors, featuring everyone;s favorite classic rock cover band, Swami Gone Bananas. A few of us who have some musical instrumentation skills (well, I use that term loosely for some of us. And by that, I mean me) decided to jam a little ourselves while the headlining act set up their rigs. See below, the band, me, Ryan, Jarrett, TJ playing as well. Emmalee decided not to bust out the bassoon, I think it was a fear of it being broken, which is understandable.

Saturday night was Eric Clapton, which, as I told you dad, you can't really "review" Clapton, he was either awesome, or out of this world. Really no in between. Didnt get any pics, as the security folks I assumed were going to be a little tight with photos being taken and all. Derek Trucks never ceases to amaze. Maybe one of these days Ill be able to put my thoughts of the concert together enough to warrant a review. For now, enjoy the pics.

Field Day

Well, somebody had to post something, so here are some pictures of our field day activities in Piedmont Park this past weekend. It was great weather, and great times with friends. Silly games such as dodgeball, tug of war, water balloon toss, relay race, and obstacle course. We ended up as the Double Vision team quite by accident, the real team didn't show up, so we Ruplians took over. And we were quite glad we did! Next year we're gonna plan ahead and begin training earlier in the season...