Sidney Lanier: Cancelled

Drove up to the Hot Stove meeting north of Cumming after work Wednesday. A new guy had attended Sidney Lanier High in Montgomery. I told him I’d gone to Lanier High in Macon. He said they’re trying to change the name of his school.

Sidney Lanier served in the Confederate army, and was known as the “poet of the Confederacy”. Lanier graduated first in his class from Oglethorpe, which was in Milledgeville at the time. After the war he moved to Montgomery, where he was organist of First Presbyterian Church in Prattville. Later back in Macon he wrote poems about the poor white and black farmers in the South, using the “cracker” and “negro” dialects of the day. The United Daughters of the Confederacy worked to enhance Lanier’s legacy. Statues of Lanier were erected at Johns Hopkins University and at Duke, there alongside Thomas Jefferson and Robert E Lee. Among numerous other monuments erected in his honor includes one in Piedmont Park.

Does all this make Lanier a name to be erased? You’d think Duke and Johns Hopkins would be the first to knock down his statues, not the school board in Montgomery Alabama. Actually this is starting to make a lot of sense. My how the tables have turned. When schools in Macon were integrated In 1970, Lanier High for Boys was consolidated in with Miller High for girls and renamed Central High, the teams no longer the distinctive Poets but instead the less creative Chargers.

Greg Blitz was the Lanier High grad. He runs RBI Baseball, and stages tournaments for Little League teams.

A former North Georgia softball player talked about her career, and winning the national championship in Omaha. A former North Georgia golfer was there as well. On the day of the last World Series game they decided to fly to Houston for the game. The $300 round trip and $400 ticket was cheaper than watching in Atlanta. Flight over laid over in New Orleans. They arrived at the game late, but in time for the Soler home run. Then back to the airport for the 6 am flight home – through Orlando.

I might’ve mentioned before, but Hot Stove host Johnny is a justice of the peace, and makes upwards of $30,000.00 a year marrying off couples. Perhaps I need to do that after I retire. He charges like $100 if they come to his house, and more if he has to meet the couple somewhere. The Hot Stove group has been meeting for 30 years, since after the 1992 season.

Rough day at work Wednesday. Orders a month late. My order requests get rejected, then they say I’m not ordering enough. Had to get out my little Grizz Gaming stress ball to squeeze.

M ate supper with us: steak stir fry, which used to be called beef tips and rice with grilled vegetables. Anna and Caleb had something in Athens, and ate oysters on the half shell.

In the office Friday morning trying to get a little personal work done, but didn't make much progress. Had to run out for an hour to give C something she had forgotten. Had a 2 pm doctor appointment. Hopefully I can do a little straightening up over the weekend.

Reading The Scarlet Letter. Trying to read some of the classics that I don’t ever remember reading. Seems like so many want to point out and glorify Christianity at its worst, when a majority of Christians are getting it right.

The unranked Georgia Tech women upset number three UConn Thursday night in Atlanta. A bling hog roots up an acorn every now and then. The Huskies were without the national player of the year. Tech was also missing a couple players, neither of which ever won national player of the year. Sorry I don’t get excited at one off upsets like this. Just proves that even the best teams lose sometimes, especially on the road during a pandemic, without the best player in the country. Most Techsters bragging about it had no idea the game was going on. Man am I getting to be an old grouch.

Songs you never hear any more: “The Farmer in the Dell”, “Pop Goes the Weasel”, and “Mary Had a Little Lamb”.

GREGG JEFFERIES  [Wiki Bio] was voted on for Rookie of the Year twice and didn’t win either time. Placed 6^th in ROY voting after playing 29 games in 1988, but hadn’t used up his rookie status and placed 3^rd in the 1989 voting. He was the first player to be twice named Baseball America's Minor League Player of the Year, in MLPY for 1986 for three teams and 1987 for the Jackson Mets Hint: He turned down multiple offers to manage or coach in the majors, but now coaches youth baseball near his home in the San Francisco Bay Area, in Pleasanton

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