Hi all, some of you know me, many others don't. My name is Ted and I am a Missy fan. I didn't know her as well or as long as probably most here, so I have been on this Tribe for months but have never posted, just read and remembered and smiled. But Missy definitely touched my life, however briefly -- I will reply to this message with a copy of an e-mail from January with my Missy story.

But this post is to share a story about our High Sierra tribute to Missy. I am a member of a big group that camps together at High Sierra every year, CampaBarbara, mostly Santa Barbara people or those with roots there (my wife Mia and I live in the Bay Area but attended UCSB way back when). A bunch of other CampaBarbarans (Campa Barbarians?) are in this tribe, at a glance I see Brandi, Sweet P, Craig, Stobi, DirtGirl, Kabir, Melissa, among I'm sure others. And I know many CBers knew and had been touched by Missy.

This year CampaBarbara came to High Sierra as a crazy basketball team, our camp was decorated with a basketball floor and a scoreboard and an arcade-style pop-a-shot game, and most of us were decked out in CampaBarbara jerseys, over 75 of us in total. The jerseys had a CB logo on the front, and each person chose a name and number to go on the back.

We also had various extra jerseys made, including several to hang from the camp rafters honoring veteran CBers who couldn't attend this year, and late rock icons (e.g. "J. Garcia" and "Hendrix"). As part of this tribute, we created a jersey for Missy:

MISSY B.
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The Missy jersey hung prominently from the CampaBarbara bar throughout the festival. With one exception -- during the ALO late night show, "The ALOlympics," a bunch of camp flags were raised to the rafters as part of the Olympics ceremony, and the Missy B jersey went up with them, hanging above the crowd and the band for the whole show.

The following link includes 3 pictures -- 1 group shot of most of CampaBarbara in jerseys, 1 close up with Sweet P in the middle smiling (I'm on the right with red glasses), and a smaller group shot taken Monday morning, as we packed out, with about 1/3 of our camp and the Missy jersey -- Sweet P is holding it. Click here, then "View Pictures":

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I also posted the one with the Missy jersey on this tribe's photo page.

So, I hope everyone enjoys the photos, and the story.

And Momma Baron -- I have the jersey here in my office and would like to send it to you please. Can you contact me directly, either via tribe or at tedandmiap@comcast.net, with a mailing address?

Q-4 forever and always

ted :)