* In the dining rooms and kitchens of our new friends, ...we have taken excursions, real and figurative, through family photos, vacation pictures, philosophical ideas, Unitarian ideas, and personal convictions.  We've compared notebooks, movie reviews, oral histories, and recipes.   In the Round Robin, the wisdoms of the retired grandparents, the challenges of the single mother, the rapture of the newlyweds, and the anxieties of young parents mingle and mix.  It's quite an education.  Holly Gilbert

* Social interest groups appear like mushrooms on the lawn, thrive for months or even years, then vanish when tastes and interests change.  Yet upon this nebulous social whirligig, friendships are formed that serve a lifetime, and the community itself is solidified.

* Long time members Hal and Cathie Breidenbach . . . started Outsiders because of their "love for things out of doors."  And the love sometimes was literal, such as the time Julie Bradford met a charming cyclist on the Michigander bike trip and is now riding as Mrs. Julie Bradford Coronado.

* Defining a social interest group isn't all that easy . . . I consider the Rummage Sale a social interest group, for example, and that's where I met and got to know a lot of people when I first came to the church.  Carol Glass

* Indicates passage was selected from Birmingham Unitarian Church, The First 50 Years.

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