Here in Greensboro's Aycock Neighborhood, we are quite used to feeding the masses and we gotchur Friday night barbeque right here. (map)
 HoggFest photo by Wharton
Impromptu 'porch parties' of thirty or more are almost a weekly weekend occurance hereabouts. In addition, several times per year the whole neighborhood gets together over 'pot luck' dinners to discuss things and eat more than we should. Now and again we really pig out with a hundred and more in attendance as we gather to plan for the leadership and future of Greensboro's finest neighborhood. So Friday night's neighborhood barbeque for ConvergeSouth's presenters and attendees will be hospitality as usual around here. The only difference is that we are going to have a few new neighbors to welcome and share in the food and fun.
Ya'll come.
Aycock is one of Greensboro's three locally designated historic distircts. Straddling the border of east and west Greensboro, our neighborhood is one of the city's most diverse, eclectic and community-aware/politically-active enclaves. And, boy-howdy, do we blog.
- Grunkle Guru lives over on Park Ave. He and his lovely wife are good friends. Guru is family guy and a blogging golf/sports commentator.
- Across the street from my house lives Louisa's Paintings who has had some success selling her artwork with the help of her blog and is the hostess with the mostess, as you will soon find out.
- Long-time resident, and part-time blogger, Ed Whitfield lives near War Memorial Stadium and is a serious District 2 contender for the upcoming City Council elections. He was recently endorsed by the editorial staff at the N&R for the job
- Matthew Gross, the banana pudding maven, loves borrowed Bourbon and lives just across the way. Matt was Howard Dean's blogging guru during the just-passed presidential primary season and currently does other mysterious stuff for a living. The brains and looks of the Gross household is wife Mel.
- David Wharton, another Bourbon fanatic, has several roles in our community. He teaches classical studies in his renumerated position at UNCG, but in his spare time does some other stuff. He is the parent of three great kids including Sam (who is Absolutely American), he frequently holds the fort down while his wife Lorette goes on extended trips to make the real money. Through his blog he teaches Greensboro about how to approach community development and acquire good architectural taste, and he serves on Greensboro's Historic District Commission.
- We still miss frograbbitmonkey, but maybe she'll come back soon.
Obviously, we understand you blogging types.
So if you're in town for Converge South this weekend, we'd be real pleased if you'd come by and sit on our porches and sample our 'que, baked beans, coleslaw, cornbread, beer, banana pudding and so forth. Of course WiFi is open and available on every participating porch.
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