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8 Letters to Editor

Letter to Editor: Talbot Boys Needs Signage

February 1, 2021 by Letter to Editor

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The Talbot Boys monument is not an eyesore and it would be expensive to move. It’s reason for being is however is an uncomfortable and objectionable part of our County’s history.
I’d be happy if an educational, “teaching moment,” in the form of a sign/plaque could be installed by it, one that discusses Talbot’s racial history, ties it in to the civil war, Buffalo soldiers, the local underground railroad, emancipation, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, & civil rights, etc.
A forward thinking, positive display could satisfy all sides of the debate, in an affordable manor right there on the courthouse lawn! See the attached educational signs that have been erected out at Frederick Douglass Park.
Bobbie Wells
Talbot County

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Letters to Editor

  1. Bob says

    February 1, 2021 at 5:37 PM

    What an excellent suggestion. Thank you, Miss Bobbie!

  2. Henry Herr says

    February 1, 2021 at 11:09 PM

    The money has already been raised to move the monument (it is expensive) and a sign was suggested free of cost to the county Oct 2019. The council refused.

  3. Anthony says

    February 2, 2021 at 5:34 AM

    I’m sure many would volunteer to tear the statue down. If a private entity wants to pay the expense of a move, why should we worry about the cost? It should be removed so we may wash our hands of it. Doing so does not erase the history of having dirty hands but it lets us move forward with clean ones.

    Put your signs by the Douglas statue if the aim is education.

  4. Gren Whitman says

    February 3, 2021 at 9:26 PM

    Don’t understand how anyone can suggest that the odious, racist Confederate “Talbot Boys” monument still on public display in front of the county courthouse in Easton isn;’t an “eyesore.”

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