Talk:Paris, Tennessee

Back to my sandbox for now

This was in such bad shape that I've moved everything back to my sandbox for now. Hope to bring it back out for collaboration sometime before long.Pat Palmer (talk) 14:44, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

This page under construction

I am working as the lead author on this article, which is under construction. I don't yet know what it's final format will be. It is what I would call an experiment. However, one of its goals is to provide a more complete history of the town and county as regards race relations. The existing history as found on the web is missing huge chunks of interest. A great deal of important information about what happened in the past has been deliberately forgotten, not recorded, actively discouraged from being talked about, or plain old ignored. This may be in part because the elements related to race relations are simply embarrassing and people would prefer to pretend none of it ever happened. Nowhere was history buried and forgotten and glossed over more fully, with more active enthusiasm, than in the Southern United States. Trevor Noah, in his auto-biography "Born a Crime", notes that these days even Germany openly and deliberately teaches to children what happened during the Holocaust in World War II, to prevent it ever happening again. But in the U.S., not so much. He wrote:

In American, the history of racism is taught like this: "There was slavery and then there was Jim Crow and then there was Martin Luther King Jr. and now it's done."

Pat Palmer (talk) 17:43, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

Note to self on needed reference

There is a need to find and place the reference on pre-civil-war schools. Maybe also the ref on education for free negroes.Pat Palmer (talk) 15:14, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

About former county high schools

Before consolidation, there were high schools at Buchanan, Cottage Grove, Henry, Puryear and Springville. Pat Palmer (talk) 13:39, 6 May 2022 (CDT)

question...

What is a hushpuppy? There used to be a brand of suede shoes called hushpuppies.

This article seems to imply it is a food item... George Swan (talk) 10:43, 6 August 2022 (CDT)

In the southern U.S., a hushpuppy is a deep-fried, corn-meal fritter or dumpling, with onions that is typically served with fried fish. A photo here: https://www.thespruceeats.com/thmb/rpGjtoavQXrIUDQ19Cya-fWOuGc=/940x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(webp)/beer-batter-hushpuppies-22-56a8c08c3df78cf772a04ebd.jpg Pat Palmer (talk) 13:06, 12 September 2022 (CDT)

Old 23rd district info

Would like to work this info into the article at some point: Much of the former Henry County 23rd voting district became part of the Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge system after the creation of Kentucky Lake in 1945. See https://www.radionwtn.com/2019/07/29/history-of-old-23rd-district-on-program-of-historical-society-meeting/ Pat Palmer (talk) 12:08, 13 September 2022 (CDT)

old image

File:800px-Henry County Tennessee Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Henry Highlighted 4733400.svg.png
Here's the prior image used for the top of this article. Also, this one was used earlier but not now: File:Confederate monument.jpg Pat Palmer (talk) 08:52, 16 January 2023 (CST)

needing further re-org

• The basic town description should come to the top, and the history parts to the bottom, maybe.
  • Maybe the lead-in just briefly mentions the historical highlights, such as the Chickasaw, cotton/tobacco and slavery, Jim Crow and segregation, and factory displacements.