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Such meetings, spontaneous and arranged, punctuate Horwitz's zigzag journey through the Old Confederacy, with stops at battlefields, museums, redneck bars, gatherings of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, an Afrocentric school, and the living rooms of countless affable Southerners.
The paper describes the event as one of the largest gatherings ever in the nation's capital and one of the biggest religious gatherings in the nation's history, and says the crowd numbered "perhaps a half-million people."
Some yardas may not have planted grass, but instead hard-packed dirt that is kept free of weeds, swept frequently, and kept prepared for family gatherings.
(He shows up at Jewish gatherings wearing a yarmulke with "Alfonse" stitched on it.)
In a similar vein, several of the engineers have braved the elements by appearing at our daily all-hands gatherings on the flight deck without coats; only to be outdone by a petty officer who wore shorts through the frigid Strait of Magellan!