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    1. Re: [TXBEXAR] SAN ANTONIO /MAIN HIGH SCHOOL
    2. Old Main Avenue High School (DRT Library) Historical plaque at front entrance of Fox Tech High School Another high school that has literary connections–at least indirect ones–is Fox Tech High School. It is located on Main Avenue just north of downtown in the vicinity of the new public library and the Southwest School of Art and Craft (the old Ursuline Academy), which Sydney Lanier visited and described. However, the literary connection with Fox Tech concerns William Butler Yeats, the celebrated Irish poet, who visited San Antonio on a lecture tour in 1920 and spoke at the Main Avenue High School on Wednesday, April 14, according to that day's edition of the San Antonio Express. The headline read, "THEATRE OF THE PEOPLE THEME OF YEATS' LECTURE/ FAMED IRISH POET AT THE MAIN AVENUE HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM TONIGHT." In subsequent years Main Avenue High School was enlarged and eventually replaced by the present high school, Fox Tech, but the latter structure boasts a plaque near the main entrance which attests to the site's historical significance.

    07/11/2005 12:16:12