For better or worse, some of the most prestigious journals in the country have started to pay attention to Talbot County’s Talbot Boys controversy. A few months ago, The Atlantic highlighted the placement of the confederate monument on local courthouse green, and now the New Yorker has produced a podcast by Casey Cep (a graduate of Easton High School) this week.
Here is a link to listen to it.
Lewis Marcus says
Regarding the Talbot Boys Statue.
The county courthouse is part of a public forum that represents the culture and laws of our current times. Anything that represents the division of the past belongs in a historical place representing the past where one can revisit history. A historical museum of the Civil War would be an appropriate place for the statue. Not at a county courthouse that is suppose to represent our current culture and laws.
Lewis Marcus
Shirley says
I was born and raised in Easton,it us just like any other small-town the majority of the people are white and Republicans.I want to if the ones voted to keep it up was born in Easton.The only person that really try to help the black community there was Mrs.Rita Pettit tell the day she died.
Gayle Scroggs says
With national publicity, the Talbot Boy statue is now the shame of Easton.
We need to vote out the three counselors who voted for it. In the meanwhile we can boycott their businesses. They have harmed the area’s reputation. They did not listen to constituents who wrote overwhelmingly in favor of removal.
I regularly chat with tourists who stare at the statue in total disbelief, wondering what kind of citizens would keep a monument to the defense of slavery in front of a courthouse!! Imagine what they say to their friends when they get back home. Nothing that would encourage them to visit or move to Talbot County!
Dan Watson says
A wonderful podcast…don’t fail to listen. Nice work Casey.
Suzanne Todd says
I understand that Mr. Pack is inquiring about the economic impact the statue might be having to businesses in St. Michaels as well as in Easton. If this plan succeeds in convincing council members Price, Callahan and Divilio to join him and council member Lesher in voting to relocate the statue, that’s wonderful. However, I find it sad and shameful that economic issues might be a deciding factor rather than realizing it’s the right thing to do.
David Montgomery says
It seems to me that any economic harm to Talbot County should be blamed on those promoting unjustified claims of current racism in national media, not on our elected representatives trying hard to weigh the validity of arguments on all sides. That is just more bullying and intimidation of those who do not agree with Mr Pack and his demonstrators.
B Thompson says
Oh boy. You almost got me there! You started to raise my ire until I realized you must be joking. “…promoting unjustified claims of current racism in national media…” has to be one of the most laughable phrases published in the Talbot Spy. Ha ha ha ha ha. You almost got me, you kidder, you.
Keith Alan Watts says
Superlative journalism. Casey’s podcast — and accompanying article — will help move the needle on this. It is no longer a question of “if” for “The Boys” — but “when.”
https://www.newyorker.com/news/us-journal/my-local-confederate-monument
One “act of conscience.” Surely it is there . . . .
Now would be a good time . . . . to act.
Dock Deerin says
The podcast is riveting and the article in New Yorker equally spectacular. What great research and writing. Time to take the statue and base down.
Anne Stalfort says
Wonderful job by Casey Cep. Everytime I hear or read of the ridiculous reasons for keeping the Talbot Boys in place, I get angry. The members of the County Council who voted to keep the Boys in place are on the wrong side of history and morality. How can it be moral to keep in place a monument to hate; a monument to slavery; a monument to a way of life that survived by treating one race as less than? Come on Council Members show some moral courage.