Re: RAT Response to Online Theater Comments Re. Cat Hebert

["frances@International-Behind-the-barcode.org" <frances@international-behind-the-barcode.org>]

Right after Cat's point:
> The point of acted out stories within the life of a community is to
> refresh ideas, lessons, beliefs in the minds of the participants. It is
> replayed in the memory, which is why these stories tend to be passed
> down.  It is important for stories that truly reflect the feelings /
> beliefs of an age / a culture to be retold so that members of succeeding
> generations can learn from them (and learn how to tell them).

came this from Birmingham, Alabama:
>
>  I'd appreciate your help in encouraging folk to come to our program
>  Sunday, May 20th at 2 p.m. inside St. Paul's Cathedral. See Greg Garrison
>  story in this Friday's paper. Called "The Assassination of Father Coyle",
>  the program wil consist of some actors reading part of the trial
testimony
>  from the court case where the shooter was found not guilty. Father Coyle
>  was Irish born but had been pastor of St. Paul's from 1904 to 1921.
>  He presided at the marriage of a minister's daughter who had become
>  Catholic to a dark-skinned Puerto Rican man. Less than 2 hours
>  after the ceremony the minister, who was a member of the Klan,
>  came up on the old rectory porch and shot Father Coyle. He died
>  forty minutes later in the operating room at St. Vincent's.
>  It was preceded by years of terrible public anti-Catholic bigotry in
>  Birmingham. The murder, trial and that bigotry have been poorly
>  recorded by historians. Many of us believe Father Coyle died a
>  martyr for the Faith and plan to raise that question at the end
>  of the program.
>
>  Thanks for whatever you can do to get this word out. It's a timely
>  tie-in with the meeting you wrote about. As we all work together to
>  speak out and act against bigotry, we will come closer together
>  than we ever imagined.
>
>  Gratefully, John Wright, Jr.

John:  You might want to subscribe to this group.  Peggy>
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