Old Dogs Teach a Family to Speak Loud and Listen
Jane Howard Lee recalls a Baytown Sun past about a Lab mix Scooter and two elderly dogs Sunny and Miss B. Sunny defends and warns intruders, earning hero status, while the family adapts to Sunny s deafness by shouting and stomping to be heard. The piece celebrates loyal pets and shared routines.
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Miss B
Baytown Sun
Sunny
Sun
Baytown residents wrap yellow ribbon for troops return
Calvin Evans and Cheri Ivey fashioned a large yellow ribbon trimmed in red around the Texas Avenue oak to honor US troops in Iraq. They attached the ribbon after a Trash-Off event without city permission and also distributed a yellow ribbon flag and a signed butcher paper to send to Iraq.
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Baytown
Sun
Phote
Whit Snyder
Cheri Ivey
Calvin Evans
Texas Avenue
Iraq
Calvin
Ivey
Evans
Church of the Nazarene
North Main
Bagland Island
Yellow Ribbon Tradition Origins Debated by Folklorists
Gerald E. Parsons notes the yellow ribbon custom is not a genuine American tradition. The question shifts from Civil War ties to broader historic roots, with references to the song Round Her Neck She Wore A Yellow Ribbon and earlier versions dating back centuries.
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American Folklife Center
Archive of Folk Culture
Sidney Robertson Cowell
California
Philadelphia
Desdamona
County Fair Picnic aids young cancer patients in Baytown
Baytown Civic Pride and the Baytown Evening Optimist Club team with clubs for the fourth annual County Fair Picnic at Baytown Evening Optimist Clubhouse May 31 from 9 am to 5 pm. The event offers booths, games, pony rides, a petting zoo, and train rides for children from M D Anderson Pediatric Cancer Unit and the region, supported by southeast Texas clubs.
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Baytown
Jim Campisi
M.D. Anderson
Campisi
Texas
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Jane Howard Lee
Bubbalee
City
Gerald E. Parsons
Parsons
Library of Congress Folklife