Baytown Arts Renaissance of the Postwar Era
Wanda Orton recalls a Baytown cultural boom in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Baytown Civic Music Association performances at REL auditorium drew crowds with Ferrante and Teicher and Metropolitan Opera stars. Local groups fostered art, writing, theater, and film culture, shaping a thriving postwar arts scene.
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Truman
Margaret
Carnegie Hall
Metropolitan Opera
White House
Trumans
Marilyn Monroe
Saturday Review of Literature
New York
Robert E. Lee High School
Europe
Baytown Civic Music Association
Ferrante and Teicher
Beverly Sills
Robert Rounseville
Mimi Benzell
Goose Creek
Houston Symphony
Houston
REL
Art League
Artists Guild
Cinema Guild
Bay Theater
Lee College
Creative Writers Club
Poetry Society
David Arnett Sr
Baytown Little Theater
Clare Farrar
Lynn O'Hagan
The
Alley
the Playhouse
Theater Inc
Music Hall
Old City Auditorium
Playhouse
Emeril
Local medic becomes caretaker for Iraqi autistic boy Ben
Six weeks into a Baghdad posting, medic Tyler Ratliff has acted as guardian to eight year old Ben, an Iraqi boy with autism. Ben’s energy and curiosity test Ratliff as he balances duties at the Adhamiyah Joint Security Station. The story begins Oct 1 when Iraqi Police found the boy wandering alone in Adhamiyah and brought him to the district police station. SEE SOLDIER PAGE 28.
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Baghdad Spe
Tyler Ratliff
Ratliff
Ben
U.S
Baghdad
7Th Cavalry Regiment
Adhamiyah
JSS
William Chastain
Kennesaw
Baytown Optometrist Dr Chris Warford profile
Baytown native Dr Chris Warford, second generation optometrist owner of Texas State Optical on Texas Avenue, shares family ties with Pam Couch Warford and children Brandon and Lauren. He cites Baytown’s negativism as a change he’d pursue and values faith, family, and service.
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Baytown
U.S
From Tears to Triumph At 27 She Speaks To Grads
Hilda Trujillo, once a child bride at thirteen and mother at fifteen, tells her life story to Lee College Project Leeway graduates and President Martha Ellis. She recalls years of abuse, fear, and a harrowing escape at twenty two with two children, then a dangerous pursuit by her ex husband until a victims advocate helped find a new path.
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Hilda Trujillo
Lee College Project Leeway
Martha Ellis
Trujillo
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