Saying Grace Before The Barbeque Dinner At The Pie Town, New Mexico Fair, 1940, Photo By Lee Russell, via Flickr.com
According to a benign but unnamed source, the turnout at the 27th and Penn cookout tonight was fantastic...
"Kevin" was there, and reports he's had no more rocks thrown through his windows since the ones noted on the Minneapolis Issues list. Don Samuels and Linda Higgens were there. Samuels, a strong proponent of the Minneapolis Advantage program, was glad to be able to put a face on the program when he met Brian Reichow, subject of the previous post.
(Brian is actually my "face of the program," too, since I've never met any other Minneapolis Advantage Grant recipient)
Other people there included members of NPR, possibly named "Bill Miller" and "Anne." Joe Mullery was there. Megan Goodmundson, Robert Johnson & Jeanne Fish, realtors Connie Nompelis and Deb Wagner of "Get to NOMI" fame, Wizard Marks, Crystal Lind, and even (gasp!) Dyna herself, who took some guy for a sidecar ride.
(Does the source mean a MOTORCYCLE? My mental picture of Dyna is being drastically revised this very moment)
One of the Jordan neighborhood organizers actively invited the neighbors from near tonight's event, but only a couple came by, and it was pretty evident who they were. One woman seemed to have overdosed on some pharmaceutical and screamed "Thank you Jesus!" repeatedly during Don Samuels' brief address to the crowd. She also squeled incomprehensibly as she accompanied (escorted?) people to their cars, which lined both sides of Penn. She was still hanging around on the corner of 27th & Penn, squealing at nobody in particular, when my source headed home.
AS THERE IS NO PICTURE accompanying the report in question, I had to go with a generic image from Flickr.com, which I turned up with the search term "barbeque."
And why weren't you there?
ReplyDeleteI was looking for you, dear Johnny...
PS It's "BOB" Miller, and you should really meet him.
ReplyDeleteYou would like him, I am certain.
It's worse than you feared- I have four motorcycles!
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To Ranty: I was with my son. I make a point of doing the fun stuff he wants to do during my visitation, and so we were off doing something else. Invite me to the next thing when you hear of it. I might come.
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