an Osman, the SPEED FREE CLIMBING SAMURAI, died on November 23, 1998 (at the age of 35) while executing a "controlled" rope jump at night from the 1,200-foot Leaning Tower in Yosemite National Parks when the line snapped 200 feet above his harness. A descendant of the samurai families of the Takeuchi clan, Dan became a pioneer of the art of speed climbing and free falling. Soon he became infatuated with taking longer and longer falls on climbing rope and developed a variety of gear and methods to make it "safer". Take a peek at Dan at his best. This is the most amazing sports video I have ever seen. Click <HERE>.
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This is just too weird. I was surfing the net today and googled my grandfather the Rev. Soloman S. Seay, Sr. He was a forerunner of the Civil Rights Movement in the American South (1). Among other things, he is believed to have inspired the famous "I Have a Dream" speech delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963. My grandfather's autobiography, There by the Grace of God: The Memoir of an Early Civil Rights Activist, One of the Great African American Preachers was published in 1990 and will be available in paperback on Amazon in December of 2005 (2). First Edition hardbacks are also available (3).
Well it turns out that there is an alternative band in the UK called the Manic Street Preachers who released a song (presumably based on the autobiography) called "There by the Grace of God" on their 2002 album Forever Delayed. Click here for the Amazon music sample page.
One of their fan websites provides some background:
"There By The Grace Of God" is the title of a book published containing the memoirs of the Reverend Solomon S. Seay, an American activist during the civil rights movement in the American South (in the mid-20th century).
Seay's book is especially welcome because of his role as an older, activist minister in Montgomery, Alabama, at the time when the young Martin Luther King was beginning his career there. Seay was important to King, and also to Rosa Parks, Fred Gray, and others who are now familiar historical names. Seay himself considered his memoir the fulfillment of a life-long commitment to the destiny of his country, his community, and the oppressed. (4)
Above. Pictures of my grandfather and myself from his autobiography.
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