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Obama Day Memories 10
Twenty-something Austin reader Alex Winkelman remembers:
The Winkelman family sat in front of Bruce Springsteen at the Inauguration — until he and his family got moved to a very, very important person’s area.
James Lehrer, host of PBS’s “The NewsHour,” was among the guests at the Ben Barnes/Bernard Rapoport reception on Sunday night. It was also a great visiting point with many Austinites and Texans, including the Melanie Barnes, the entire Rapoport clan, Merediths, Deborah and Larry Peel, Winkelmans, Sen. Kirk Watson and son Preston, Sen. Rodney Ellis, Alexa and Blaine Wesner, Diane Land and Steve Adler, Wyeth Wiedeman, Amy and Kirk Rudy (dressed very casually, having come from the concert on the mall, but on their way to a black tie event).
At the Huntington Post Pre-inaugural Ball, Jake Winkelman held Ron Howard’s place in line so that Ron and his wife, Cheryl, could visit with Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel. On exiting the same event late Monday night, Marc Winkelman ran into and had a brief chat with Robert DeNiro.Send Obama Day memories to mbarnes@statesman.com.
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