[HPFGU-OTChatter] Miss Mary?

[Parker Brown Nesbit]

She's an elderly African-American lady who works part-time at Middleton 
Place. (an historic rice plantation in Charleston, SC.  We do living 
history/slavery history.) We'd been without a weaver pretty much for a year 
and a half before I started work there.  Miss Mary sits in the weaving shop, 
doing yo-yo quilts (which are not proper for the 1700s--they didn't start 
making those types of quilts until the late 19th century).  She comes in my 
shop, closes the door and the windows, and sits.  Even when it's 90 degrees, 
she's got the shop shut up.

Now, I like my air (plus the fact that I have 'power surges') and I *am* the 
weaver. Folks don't even visit the shop because it's shut up, so they're 
missing an important part of our story.  I've been sitting outside on 
Mondays, but it's bloody hard to interpret dyeing when you've not got the 
dye examples at hand.  Plus, not too many people stop by and ask what I'm 
doing, so I don't feel like I'm properly doing my job, which is to weave and 
tell visitors about African-American weavers, weaving, and dyeing.

Sorry for the rant, but this has been going on for a month now.  I've talked 
to our boss, but he hasn't done anything about it yet.

Peace & Plenty,

Parker




>From: "Amy Z" <aiz24 at hotmail.com>
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>Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 07:52:31 -0400
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Severus Snape, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

'...I have not been helping Sirius get into the castle and I certainly don't 
want Harry dead.'  An odd shiver passed over his face. 'But I won't deny 
that I am a werewolf.'  Remus Lupin, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of 
Azkaban

'But I'm also--I don't know if anyone ever told you--I'm your godfather.'  
Sirius Black, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

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