Address at the dedication of a historical marker to Charles Cronea

[Editor's note:  at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 1, 1997, Laffite Society member Joel Kirkpatrick, a retired reporter for The Galveston Daily News , addressed a sizable gathering at the High Island Cemetery on Fifth Street in High Island, Texas. The occasion of the address was the dedication of ahistorical marker at the grave of Charles Cronea, who had served as a cabin-boy with Jean Laffite's fleet ]