Bud Rue's fiftieth birthday

August 2, 1984

Put this in your iPod and smoke it.

Here is a one-hour mp3 (the Rue family's first known podcast!), entitled Brother Bud's 50th Birthday, a folk-rock musical medley interspersed with life reminiscences by Jim Rue, snail-mailed by him to his brother on a cassette tape (remember those?) from the west coast to a celebration being held in Milanville, Pennsylvania. (Warning: This file will take about four years to download. Well maybe that's an exaggeration, but it will take quite a while - even on a cable connection. It is more than 61 megabytes, so be patient.)

Pictured above are Jim, Bob, Bill, and Bud Rue.

Another file on this server is an autobiography and collection of letters by Bud Rue (about 17 megabytes), with several other files that you can browse here; as well as a collection of shared readings read in his voice. (The quality of these sound files is not as good as the one linked above, but I may be able to improve them.) Materials from his October 1993 memorial service remain here, with other papers from his life and a few documents relating to Innisfree; a biographical entry from Wikepedia which was deleted by the wizened elders of that "open" online encyclopedia; and the website of the Bud Rue Memorial Walk for Social Justice.