Food of My People

By: Kathy Gerber
Published On: 4/22/2006 3:24:14 AM


Update:  I apologize for not clarifying that this story is incomplete without viewing the short videos found via the "Community Chalkboard" and "Dedication of the Community Chalkboard" links.

Yesterday I wrote a very long piece on the foods of Virginia.  It morphed into a network of spaghetti code,  so I decided not to share.  Except for this one thing.  I have eaten shad roe and scrambled eggs all my life.

Better to run with a stock quote:

For here, we are not afraid to follow truth where it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is free to combat it.
-- Thomas Jefferson

It's beautiful, isn't it? This particular quote is carved in a stone over a door to Cabell Hall, and I can see it from my window at work. I don't look at it very much, because I've memorized it, a good thing since plans are in the works to tear that building down soon. 

I knew Harris Miller was coming to Charlottesville today, but my friends who work downtown weren't able to attend.

According to the Miller web site, one of his stops in town was at the new Community Chalkboard.

There wasn't a huge crowd on hand, but I understand there's a late flu epidemic in town right now.  One of the inevitabilities in a University town is that if something's going around, you catch it eventually. I really try to get a flu shot annually.  Chalk it up to experience.

You have to give Miller's team credit with knowing what's going on around town. The Dedication of the Community Chalkboard took place the day before, Thursday.

This article tells a little bit more about it.

Comments



Wow Kathy, (Susan Mariner - 4/22/2006 8:26:49 AM)
That Community Chalkboard is amazing.  I want to go see it.  Way to go C'ville.


In the meantime, read and write on RK :) (Kathy Gerber - 4/22/2006 11:10:17 AM)
There are several articles on the Chalkboard.  Here's a quote from one of them:

Waldo Jaquith, who worked with the Jefferson Center to create an online version, the "Virtual Community Chalkboard"-- supposedly a model of the real-life item-- foresees the wall becoming a "physical manifestation of blog community culture."

Ironically, Jaquith also likens the wall to a return to the kind of public discourse common in town squares in the 18th and 19th centuries, long before daily newspaper publishers and radio and television producers began deciding what was important.

It looks like Waldo has a really bad case of the flu right now.  Hope he gets well soon.

The animated gif that Lowell has up is a fine bit of chalking.

If you read this, Lowell, I would really like to buy an RK ad as a tribute to info_tech_guy.  I'm not wealthy, so $25 is about right for me.  Can it be something like -



To info_tech_guy
and others like him.
Keep on chalking.

Better suggestions?

Would this be more expensive?



To info_tech_guy
and others like him.
Keep on chalking.
Not a chalker?  Dance.
Susan can show you how.



That's right... (Susan Mariner - 4/22/2006 2:13:32 PM)
I'm dancing for Democracy :)  Still I was surprised my dancing ended up pictured on the front page of the Daily Press and in so many other place.  Looks like more Democrats should do a Democracy Dance! 


1 Week for a Blogad on RK costs $25 (Lowell - 4/22/2006 2:49:14 PM)
Just click here and fill out the information.  Examples of "great" blogads are here.  Any other questions, contact Brian Patton at brian@raisingkaine.com

Thanks!

Lowell



Cool :) (Kathy Gerber - 4/22/2006 3:06:37 PM)
Susan - is it ok to use that picture?  Do I need to get permission from the paper?

And it can link to webbforsenate.com



Fine with me if you use that picture (Susan Mariner - 4/22/2006 3:45:26 PM)
I have no idea if you need permission from the paper.  I saw what appears to be the same shot in the Washington Post blog and at some other blogs. 


Picture (Kathy Gerber - 4/22/2006 9:06:03 PM)
Well, I'm having a hard time finding it now, so let me know if you have a link!