Lori Allen wrote
As a native Texan, I daresay that with 32 years in the
state, mostly in smaller towns, MOST of the Texans I know wouldn't know
what
a lorry is. Neither of my parents did until 1999, when I told them.
Lori (not lorry) Allen
Hello again Lori
As the daughter of a Canadian native, (myself a native of Gilmer, TX,
pop. 4799, county pop 35061)) who learned Scottish accent from newcomers
who arrived in Gilmer ca. 1950, I do feel you are speaking from personal
experience and exaggerating for many Texans. Certainly as a child I was
certain my cousins could not properly pronounce Creek, pardon, or
Schedule, but before I got to London I knew about Telly, Lorry, and Lift.
I listened to recordings of Winston Churchill made during the Blitz.
You speak of your friends in Houston and Dallas, but I watch Masterpiece
Theater and Mystery on PBS from both Dallas and Shreveport in this town
mid way between, and I occassion hear and see BBC productions. So do
other members of NPR and PBS out here in the woods of east Texas. Many of
my neighbors who are members of the Texas Association of Museums or the
East Texas Historical Association to name a few do the same.
Certainly the members of my sister's opera class at University of Texas:
Tyler who bus together to watch the Dallas and Fort Worth operas together
and once a year go to NYC for a week of the Met would know.
I am delighted that you have learned to enjoy the museum world and that
it stimulates you. But please, please, PLEASE, remember not to condemn
all within an area for the sins of some, even if a majority. Even during
the Holocast (sp?), there were Germans who risked their lives for those
who were condemned, even if they ended up being killed themselves.
Even if we still have members of the KKK in our woods, that does not mean
every one here is the same as everyone else. We even now have mosques,
Vietnamese boat people, synagogues and a Catholic Bishop of Tyler out
here in the fundamentalist Bible Belt.
I am trying to speak in favor of all who survive when majority opinions
around them differ. Is it not our job in the museum community to help
explain the validity of experiences which differ from ours whether from
the past or the present?
Mary Kirby
Historic Upshur Museum
Gilmer, TX (aka the infamous town in "A Touch of Evil", Dateline, NBC,
March 8, 2002)
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