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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 2011
Page
7
A stay at home mother describes battling a computer puzzle addiction as she spends hours playing Bookworm with Lex the green worm. She notes burnout from home duties, the lure of air conditioning and screens, and a guilty reflection on idle time.
Baytown photographer Angela Whitten will present her first solo show at the aytown Art League with works opening August 5 at 5 p.m. Whitten, 32, a Baytown resident and mother of two, has long pursued photography while balancing a job at a Baytown chemical plant. She rose from school yearbooks to professional work with local clients and Baytown Photo Club roles, with several favorites featured in the club calendar. Whitten is currently battling an inoperable brain tumor and undergoing experimental chemotherapy, facing uncertain prospects while maintaining faith and hope.
Late July 1943 brought a brutal Gulf Coast hurricane that slammed Baytown and La Porte before roaring into Houston. Winds reached 135 mph, four cooling towers collapsed at Humble Baytown Refinery, and wartime secrecy hindered public warnings as U boats threatened Gulf shipping vital to Allied forces.
This column from Feb 22, 2005 praises barbers as a special, highly knowledgeable profession. The writer jokes that barbers rival senators in intelligence, notes many attend barber colleges, and admits not visiting a regular barber in years while praising the craft and its broad conversations.
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