Cooper Young Festival - September 13, 2008

On September 13, the local community known as Cooper Young held its annual festival. The streets are blocked off in a 3-4 block radius. Vendors line the sidewalks and sell the handmade items, register people to vote, inform people of local non-profits। It's a fun one day event. One our derby girls is a restaurant owner (Tsunami) and she let us set up behind their booth, where Kel Diabla & Instant Karmen sold their hand made paper, bamboo and metal lamps.

It was a good day. We sold some merchandise, networked and worked in 2 hour shifts from 9 am to 5 pm.

Ragin Caucasian

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I spent the rest of the day rolling around on my skates, passing out hundreds of fliers for our upcoming game on November 1st. It was a beautiful day, perfect weather. It's a lot of work promoting, but very gratifying to hear the tone in the voice of the people you come in contact with and it's always a high-pitched "Oh! I didn't know we had Roller Derby in Memphis! We're there!" or "Oh yeah! I used to watch that when I was a kid! We have it in Memphis now?!"

It brings a smile to my face and makes the sweat and repetition of saying "Come to our Roller Derby game" a hundred times worth it.