Stuff we've missed...so far.

     Just about every week I come across another annual event that did not or will not happen this year in Montgomery...because of, well, you know what.

     But the first thing cancelled was not as a result of the Covid19. The Capital City Classic baseball game between Alabama and Auburn was supposed to be played in March, but a scheduling conflict caused it to be called off last October.  
 
     Little did we know that it would have been cancelled anyway, part of a cascade of cancellations that was about to come! There has yet to be a single Montgomery Biscuits game played, and that entire season is in danger. Virtually all sporting events have been cancelled.

     We missed The annual Book Festival at Old Alabama Town; we missed the SLE Rodeo;  we missed the grand opening of the Selma-to-Montgomery Interpretive Center on the ASU Campus (which is snake bit or something, the opening was delayed again and again, once because the Congress couldn't agree on a

budget!)...The U.S. Park Service and ASU had held a media preview just before the plug was pulled, again!);

We missed the premier of the movie Son of The South, a mostly Montgomery-filmed biopic in which I have a small speaking part (it will show eventually!); we missed The Capital of Dreams Triathlon; we missed The Flimp Festival at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts; we missed weekly cruises on The Harriet Two; plus all of the other Springs events: graduations and proms and big weddings and...more than I can count.

     And think of all of the non-profit fundraising events that could not be held! The walks and runs, the cooking competitions, and dress-your-pet contests, all raising money for good causes!
 
     I would normally go up to Birmingham to be a judge in the big Do Dah Day Parade, a fundraiser for the Humane Society. Nope, not this year. We, or at least I, missed that too.