http://www.statenews.com Lansing residents Alyshia and Verlinda Roberson have camped out for seven nights straight in front of the opening gates at Lansing’s Common Ground Music Festival since it began nine years ago. Each year, the mother-daughter duo has taken what they call a “vacation” from work and slept in folding chairs just to be the first ones to enter the summer music festival. en-us Foundry4 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:58:18 -0500 webmaster@statenews.com