Taking Indiana Very Seriously
July 19th, 2008
While walking through the local farmer’s market and purchasing some lovely produce from the Cooley Family Farm, among other vendors, we were approached by Obama supporter wanting to know if everyone in our party was registered to vote. After telling her that we have been registered voters for a number of years, she asked if we knew about the Obama regional office opening at 514 Main St. We had heard about it, we told her. She then asked if we knew about the opening reception taking place at 1PM today, with former US Senator Birch Bayh as a guest speaker. That we hadn’t heard about, so we took a flyer and told her we would be there. We finished our shopping and went home.
When it was time to go, I headed towards downtown Lafayette. I parked the car in the 5th street garage and walked over to the address, 514 Main St. The office was setup in a decent size space, easily accommodating those that were in attendance. By the time the speakers started, the place was packed with local officials, young Obama supporters outfitted in the various Obama clothing lines, and several people draped in the campaign garb for local people running.
As usual, I recorded the whole thing. Below you will find MP3s of the entire speech, and each speaker’s speech as its own separate file. Further down, we included a short list of things we learned from attending this event. Enjoy listening to your local politicians.
Listen to the full event
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Download the full event (38:34)
The speaking order for this event was:
- Christine Schellack (audio download) (1:57)
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- Joe Hogsett (audio download) (3:20)
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- John Polles (audio download) (2:25)
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- Nels Ackerson (audio download) (7:29)
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- Birch Bayh (audio download) (23:27)
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Lafayette Food Co-Op Interview
May 18th, 2008
At the first Farmers’ Market of the year, May 1st, we ran into some of the people doing surveys and interviews about starting a Lafayette Food Co-Op. We decided to do an interview ourselves. We talked to Cody, who is leading the way with this project.
It turns out there used to be one here for thirty years that finally died in the mid-90s. It’s time to bring this idea back to downtown Lafayette. If anyone has a inexpensive place that would need a little fixing up, please contact them!
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Download the Lafayette Food Co-Op Interview
Contact Information:
E-mail: lafayettefoodcoop [a] yahoo.com
Website: http://cityfoods.club.officelive.com/
The co-op is in the very early planning stages, so be on the lookout for further developments. If you want to help out with this project, please contact them at the above address. We are very excited about the possibilities with this project. Please support local food, media, and community.
Danny Weiss at the Farmers Market
May 12th, 2008
The first audio piece put online that we recorded with our new Zoom H2 Handy Recorder. Let us know what you think.
This audio was taken on May 10th, at the Farmers Market, located on 5th Street in downtown Lafayette. We have Danny Weiss playing the saxophone, and entertaining the crowd early morning shoppers. Also, this is just a sample. There will be more!
You can hear the Danny Weiss Trio every Thursday night at the Black Sparrow from 10PM - 1AM.
The song is Jerome Kern’s All the Things You Are. Thanks for the update Danny!
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Download Danny Weiss playing All the Things You Are at the Farmers Market (4:57)
UPDATE:
Added another track, Sandu by Clifford Brown
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Download Danny Weiss playing ‘Sanud’ at the Farmers Market (4:10)
