“You can padlock a building,” Myles Horton said of the closing of the Highlander Folk School in 1959. “But you can’t padlock an idea. Highlander is an idea. You can’t kill it and you can’t close it. … It will grow wherever people take it.” (Frank Adams and Myles Horton, Unearthing Seeds of Fire [1975] p. 133, as cited here).
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| Myles Horton watching as the local sheriff puts a padlock on Highlander Folk School, following a trial in which Highlander was accused of propagating Communism. |
And below, remarkably, is a copy of the receipt for the padlocks from Flury’s Store in Tracy City, sent to me by a friend today (Dec 1, 2024).
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Wow, Chris, that is really something.