I’m quite sure I saw Akeer Matthews many times as we travelled up and down Culver Road. He was hit by a car a few months back right across the street from Case’s Garden Store where we buy our plants in the Spring. I know I would have been a skateboarder if that subculture was around when I was young so I always take note of them in a crowd.
Margaret Explosion played at the annual dinner/auction/benefit for Rochester Roots last night. Certainly a worthwhile effort, to get city youth to eat right, green and local when possible, it was none the less a rather sad affair. We played up on a small stage in an old auditorium in the Downtown Presbyterian Church and the sound was great. We tried our best to stay in the background (so much so that a woman started an announcement as we were starting a song) while mostly older, progressive types bid on bath soaps and local wine. Bob and Ken left after we finished playing but Peggi and I stayed around for the dinner. It was delicious and entirely locally grown. I guess what makes it sad is that a program as obviously right on as this one must depend on volunteers to support it. That and the PowerPoint presentation after dinner.
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