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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 2019
Page
4
Baytown residents donate generously to Blue Santa Goodfellows Toys for Tots and other drives to aid less fortunate children. The season’s charity reflects civic pride and a spirit of giving, ending with a Dickensian quotation about Christmas as a time for kindness and open hearts.
Recaps notable events on December 25 across centuries including Rome hosting the first Christmas celebration in AD 336, Washington's 1776 Delaware crossing, the Met Opera’s radio debut in 1931, The Sting release in 1973, the birth of the World Wide Web in 1990, Hubble repair in 1999, James Brown's death in 2006, Bergdahl and The Interview milestones, and a Trump border wall reference in a recent Oval Office appearance. Thought for Today.
The account recalls Sallie Ashe daughter of Anson Jones the last President of Texas and her family moving to Goose Creek later Pelly. It describes a poverty era Christmas in Washington County with scarce toys hauled from Houston, a prized jumping jack and a blue doll dresser, and their mother mending broken toys all day. The note adds Sallie Ashe birth date January 8 1845 marriage August 10 1865 and death July 4 1919 with Baytown relevance via Chuck Chandler of the Baytown Historical Preservation Association.
Kathryn Jean Lopez recalls a chaotic week before Christmas 2019 marked by impeachment talk and social media noise. She finds renewed hope in FOCUS SEEK attendees, Sisters of Life, Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, Hard as Nails, and a year culminating in the book A Year With the Mystics.
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