Memorable mentors
Do you know about the People’s History in Texas project?
Every time someone decries Texas as a “conservative” state, go ahead and point them to this work from good friends and former colleagues of mine. In their newsletter today, I got to expound upon what made Larry Goodwyn such a great mentor.
"Larry Goodwyn was a pugnacious populist agitator, rebellious scholar, powerful writer, demanding mentor, and passionate protagonist for social justice. In 1976, he literally rewrote the textbooks with his path-changing work, Democratic Promise: The Populist Moment In American History. This penetrating volume thoroughly debunked the ivory tower historians of the establishment who had condescendingly dismissed the Populists of the late 1800s as nothing but a bumbling bunch of demagogic, racist rubes in southern backwaters."
And Ben Delgado said some very kind words about my partner, Demarco:
"I would say Susan (DeMarco) is the one true mentor that I had, developing as a professional.I was her assistant, her guy. I learned a lot just sitting in on meetings with her, understanding what goals she had, and what she was trying to do....We did a lot of traveling together around the state and visited lots of different types of facilities and talked to business owners and ranchers and farmers and really tried to understand their condition to help develop policy (for) farmers, economic development geared toward local economies, international marketing that was geared toward bringing business to Texas."
Other wonderful humans are included, too— much sure you check them out and support their work.