Be the Change

Weekend, in photos

Friday night took us to Wilkes-Barre to see one of our favorite local bands, Ajar. We'll be touring (officially) with them very soon, and we got a photo with them after their set:

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I'm sitting on a speaker in the back. The rest of the photo is (from left to right) Geoff, bassist; Winston, guitarist; Traci, sis and fellow WOM girl; Andres, singer; Steven, drummer; John, manager.

Those guys are so much fun! I can't wait to go on tour with them. We'll see them again this Friday.

Saturday was the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade. This year was the 4th annual parade, and attendance has already grown to over 10,000! Three of my photos ran in the newspaper yesterday (Sunday edition equals more readers! Yay!), and my favorite of those photos was this one:

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Every parade, I think, has a grand marshall, someone or a group to whom the parade is dedicated. This year's was "all coalminers, past and present" and their families. These kids were dressed up as coalminers and their families. Adorable!

The interesting thing that happened this weekend was the amount of people who talked to me at the parade just because I work for the newspaper. I worry sometimes how people might treat me because I know the general negative feelings toward members of the press. Everyone was so friendly to me at the parade, though. It was really nice.