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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 2020
Page
4
A BAYTOWN bicentennial Class of 1976 graduate, Lisa Ficarro Crawford, argues against changing the name Robert E. Lee High School. She praises Lee’s character and notes slavery’s role in history, urging preservation of the school name to honor local heritage and avoid costs.
A reader argues against honoring past Confederate figures and questions Confederate propaganda. They reference Allan Stone and Alexander Stephens, challenge the framing of Civil War causes, and urge scrutiny of how history is commemorated, asking whether modern schools acknowledge extremist legacies and whether state rights arguments justify federal actions on slavery. The note ends mid-sentence with a cautionary tone.
In postwar West Texas in the mid 1990s I met Alan a nearby district superintendent at several area meetings. He proudly recalled Robert E Lee High School Baytown Home of the Fighting Ganders and asked about my alma mater. We learned we both attended Robert E Lee High School Baytown and had overlapped in the JCL decades earlier.
Bipartisan bill from Reps. Ann Kirkpatrick and Dan Newhouse proposes tax credits to support local newspapers, subscribers, and small businesses for five years. Subscribers could claim up to 250 annually for newspaper fees, while small firms under 1000 employees receive advertising credits and a payroll credit to hire local journalists. The Baytown Sun and similar outlets would benefit as part of maintaining local journalism.
On this date we recall 1861 Civil War Battle of Manassas a Confederate victory. In 1925 Scopes trial verdict in Dayton found guilty of teaching Darwinism. In 1969 Apollo 11 astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin left lunar surface for docking. In 2000 Danforth declared no federal wrongdoing in the Waco siege aftermath.
John Peter Sjolander, famed as Bard of the Bayou and Dean of Texas Poets, helped establish the Texas Poet Laureate title in 1933 after his writing career waned. A prolific writer in Galveston Daily News and other outlets, he gained national fame in 1898 as the Tolstoi of Texas and published hundreds of poems and short stories across decades.
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