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Post by angel71242 on Jun 22, 2009 8:29:51 GMT -5
Wow!! Thanks for putting all this in here Maria! It sure brings back fond memories. That picnic was AWESOME!! Charlie Lawson made me a hamburger that day!! And the one thing I will never ever forget was getting to hold that gun. Got my picture made with it too. That was quite an incredible thing - you finding that gun and the lady who owned it agreeing to bring it to the picnic and let everyone see it and hold it!!!
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Post by angel71242 on Jun 22, 2009 8:30:43 GMT -5
AND..I got to meet Sissy that day!! That was wonderful too!!!!!
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Post by Angela on Jun 22, 2009 9:10:00 GMT -5
Lord have mercy I will never forget that day!!!! Over 50 people attended and the amount of food we had covered 5 tables. But the gun, man that was the highlight of the picnic. That was the surprise we told everyone that we had for them. It took every ounce of strength I had in me not to divulge that surprise secret before that day. We had Shirry keep it hidden in the trunk of her car until I made the announcement. Then everyone went ballistic when Shirry brought it out. Everyone that was there that day held that gun and had pictures taken of them holding it. That day was "hell to the yes!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by angel71242 on Jun 22, 2009 9:18:16 GMT -5
That day was "hell to the yes!!!!!!!!!!! Couldn't of said it better myself!!!!!!!
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Post by Brian on Jun 22, 2009 10:15:03 GMT -5
I would have loved to have been at that picnic, but...I didn't know y'all then. But I do now.
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Post by angel71242 on Jun 22, 2009 10:33:28 GMT -5
Wouldn't that have been great! **sigh**
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Post by Angela on Jun 22, 2009 11:01:14 GMT -5
Vickie and I are working on maybe having a picnic for the forum in August. A Sunday afternoon one. We'd like to have the picnic in Lawsonville since that's where Charlie Lawson was born and raised. We want to and are planning to have the picnic in the Snow Creek Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery. That should be a hoot!!!!
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Post by angel71242 on Jun 22, 2009 11:31:10 GMT -5
Well alright!! Can't wait to hear more details!
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Post by Brian on Jun 22, 2009 11:34:38 GMT -5
I like old cemeteries as much as the next person (as long as the next person is Maria), but I don't know about having a picnic in one.
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Post by Angela on Jun 22, 2009 11:39:20 GMT -5
Scared Brian?
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Post by angel71242 on Jun 22, 2009 11:54:03 GMT -5
Cluck, cluck Brian!!
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Post by Brian on Jun 22, 2009 12:03:43 GMT -5
LOL, no...its more that it seems an unsanitary place to eat. A little OCD kicking in maybe. And, what would people think seeing a bunch of people romping through a cemetery? It seems disrespectful, I don't think it is but others might.
I had to stop and think about that. I really didn't know why at first.
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Post by angel71242 on Jun 22, 2009 12:26:11 GMT -5
Well who cares what others think?? If we were tearing stuff up and destroying property then yes, it would be disrespectful. But to have a nice, pleasant lunch, while at the same time paying our respects to the dead, then who cares what other people think?
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Post by Angela on Jun 22, 2009 13:14:19 GMT -5
I visited a cemetery in Beaufort, N.C. a couple of years ago and they had a lot of what they call "Table-Top tombstones. I was told by a tour guide that the tombstones were made that way specifically so that family members who had loved ones buried there and who had to travel a long distance from their home to attend Sunday services at the church could bring their lunch with them and sit on the ground around their loved one's grave and spread their meal on the long wide flat surface of the grave and eat their meals there while at the same time visit their loved one buried there. The dead are buried so deep and inside air-tight coffins inside a sealed vault that germs have no way of escaping.
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Post by Brian on Jun 22, 2009 13:25:12 GMT -5
I saw your pictures of those tables. I'd never heard of that before. I don't think it actually would be more unsanitary than a park, it just seems like it should be. I suppose if everyone else was going to be there I could too. As much as I enjoy old cemeteries, it had never occurred to me to eat in one.
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