Clarksville, Texas, has a tradition of strong community journalism, starting in 1842 with Charles DeMorse and the founding of The Northern Standard, and since his death, continuing to the present day with The Clarksville Times.
I was just reminded of this when, as I was flipping through an old copy of John F. Kennedy's book "Profiles in Courage" - written in 1957, the year I was born - I found something that caught my eye in the chapter on Sam Houston.
Houston was the only senator from the South who voted against the Compromise of 1850, an important piece of legislation that probably staved off the Civil War for ten years.
He was severely abused for that, and in telling the story it's said that his vote "as described by the indignant Clarksville Standard—“the last feather that broke the camel’s back.”'
I read "Profiles in Courage" when I was a school boy, but of course the name of Clarksville meant nothing to me then.
I'm kind of proud to still uphold a long-standing tradition of community journalism.
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