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Battle of Olustee

In this story, we go to a Civil War Battle Re-enactment in North Florida. I’d never been to such a thing. Michael has, but he was “on duty” and he concludes that this one was better. Click on the horse.

Sitting horse

2008 04 01 Hannah Big Stories Comments Off Permalink

Air Show.


Untitled from hannah on Vimeo.

Last weekend I worked at an Air Show on an Air Force base in Panama City, Florida. There was a lot of Proud-to-be-an-American, Top Gun, Let-the-eagle-Soar kinda stuff going on, and all this was amusing on a family fun level. The crowd were mostly “country people” and tended to be nicer to me than usual, despite the fact that I was there to aggressively promote a brand name insurance company and make them fill out forms…But while I enjoyed the single-engine airplane gymnastics, strange free falls, and choreographed jet fighters spinning and diverging in formation, something gripped me that was frightening and terrible when the Stealth Bomber made its solo dance.It burst out of the heavens and hovered ominously over the crowd. It was everything grandiose: a horse with its nose in the air strutting like a evil winner, a bird displaying its plumage, a ridiculous bicycle doing a wheelie. Then it hooked a right, lit its fiery jet plumes and rocketed into the sky; and repeated this, vrooming back and forth over the crowd, just about breaching the sound barrier every time.

I had to drop all of my paper pads and promotional hand-outs to plug my ears tight. I was rendered immobile just by it’s roar. In pain, I watched it’s parade in disgust. The amusing pomp of the other planes were diminished by this black spaceship reminder of destruction and death. I asked a man at our booth if that thing drops bombs, and he grinned and said “Oh yeah, that is the Big Dog.”

Despite the horrible Stealth Bomber, here is a little show about the Air Show People.

2008 04 01 Hannah Little Stories
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Meet our Bicycles

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Michael got a new bike that is grey, which is a color that he is comfortable in. We very much like riding bikes, as it is perfect fit for taking pictures in sprawling American cities. Scenic places are *nice*, like forests and nature-y bicycle paths with no cars, but rather boring, too. As it happened, the christening of Michael’s new bike coincided with his grandpa’s 80th birthday. So, we adventured through one of the most un-scenic, and very aggressive, strips of non-nature to his grandparents retirement community, Palmetto Palms in Fort Myers, to celebrate. We made picture diaries of the week:
my diary and his diary.

2008 03 31 Hannah Bicycling Comments (1) Permalink

2 Days in La

Michael’s very good friend, Ivan, married a woman named Saskie and in this story we went to New Orleans to attend the wedding. It was a nice 2 days in Louisiana, and it marked the first time we tripped together and subsequently made a picture story out of it. (Actually, going to La was the very first thing Michael asked me to do with him, despite having never met me in person.)

Click on the pretty words:

2 Days in La

2007 12 17 Hannah Big Stories Comments Off Permalink