I’ve Been Blogged (Once and then again…)

I forgot to mention that Susan Klopfer caught me in action at the Longdale Community Center site in Mississippi.

More recently, Jeff blogged about taking me and Scott B Smith out to lunch last Wednesday, when I was in Montgomery, AL. Jeff has his own blog and is also one of the cool people over at Preemptive Karma. Jeff turned up an old list-serve post by ScottB, which is a good introduction to his involvement in the Lowndes County Freedom Organization and the story behind the black cat (later the Black Panther) symbol in African American political organizations.

Definitely check out Jeff's post to read the passage by ScottB. But I also want to make sure you catch the last part, where Jeff announces his project on Tallassee:

I'd been thinking for a long time that the history of Tallassee needed updating. A History of Tallassee was published by the about-to-close Mt. Vernon Mills in 1949, but I'm not aware of any similar historical attempts at archiving since.

I'd been thinking for a long time that the Writers' Bloc site needed doing, for longer things than blog entries.

There's so much to cover since the 1940s, and so many stories that aren't what the Chamber of Commerce would appreciate, but they need to be told; like this one Ben and I have talked about a lot. So it's on. In a serious way. I'm expecting it'll be a forum or portal-style website, collecting and telling the oral history, and that I'll be organizing it in anticipation of a printed version.

Yet another reason being a blogger has been so worthwhile: I keep meeting people and learning things I'd never have had access to otherwise.

Thanks for lunch, Jeff.