The Okie Legacy

Vol. 2, Issue 60 -- 27 May 2000

Murals of Oklahoma

Its been another Great Week! Even though the hot summer temperatures have found their way to Oklahoma during the beginning of the week, we only need to wait a few minutes and it'll change. The last part of the week seemed to cool down with the fronts and thunderstorms blowing through the state Wednesday thru Friday. Will Rogers once said, "If you don't like the weather in Oklahoma, just wait a minute, it'll change." - OR - "If you don't like the weather in Oklahoma, stick around a bit."
http://www.ok-duncan.com/html/qolclimategeog.html
http://www.willrogerstoday.com/quotes.htm
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While I was traveling between northwest and central Oklahoma I found more and more murals in Oklahoma's small northwest communities. I stopped in Okeene and snapped a shot of a painting which shows a steamed driven wheat harvester against the painted blue skies of Okeene on the north side of the building just south of the quick stop gas station on the SE corner of Okeene's main street and hwy 51.
Okeene Mural

On hwy. 81 there is a small community between Hennessey and Kingfisher called Dover. On the SW corner of Red Fork Drive & Chisolm Trail (hwy. 81) there is a Mural depicting the Chisolm Trail.
Dover mural

In Kingfisher there are three (3) murals painted on the side of three different buildings on the corners of Main Street. If you drive north on Main Street through Kingfisher, you can get a good view of the NE Corner of the Main Street & Broadway Avenue Mural. It depicts a covered wagon; a few cowboys on horses; and is painted on the top, south side, third building, east side of the street from the corner of Broadway Avenue & Main Street.
Kingfisher Index
Kingfisher mural

If you keep going north on Main Street to Miles Avenue, you can view the NE Corner of Main Street & Miles Avenue. They have incorporated a couple of real-life fruitless pear trees along side; a few painted trees in the background and a pioneer family standing out on the homestead. The real stairs seem to go up to the painted blue sky & clouds of hope that the pioneers depended upon.
Kingfisher mural 2

Continuing North on Main Street to Robberts Avenue (SE corner of Main & Robberts), you can view the next painting depicting a street scene in Kingfisher with Model-A cars and a group of citizens in long coats standing in the middle of the street in the foreground. If you turn east onto Robberts Avenue, the painting is on the south side of the street across from the Pioneer Telephone Building. This is my favorite of all painted murals in Kingfisher. Are those "Dust Bowl" clouds in the background?
Kingfisher mural 3

Last week I mentioned that Alva was about ready to put up their third mural. As I promised you, I have some pictures showing the Alva Mural in the process of being permanently attached to the Brunsteter building, SE corner of 5th & Barnes. (Mural depicts the burning of the Castle on the Hill, March 1, 1935)
Alva mural 3
Alva mural 3a
Alva mural 3b
Alva mural 3c

If you travel west out of Alva on hwy. 64 towards Freedom, Oklahoma, you will find another mural (Posting of Colors) painted on the west side of one their buildings in Oklahoma's Smallest Certified City and Home of Alabaster Caverns. They are in the process of having other murals painted, I hear. If you can't get out to Freedom, stop by Rod Murrow's website and view the "Posting of Colors" that was painted by Jack J. Wells. http://www.pldi.net/~Emurrows/freedom.html

As to Horse Sense... For those of you waiting in anticipation about how I'm coming along with my mare (Cindy) and her foal (Okie)... Cindy is eating out of a round bowl that I hold in my right arm next to my chest while I pet her with on the forehead and neck. We both look each other in the right eye. The distance between eyes is about 2 to 3 inches... That is about how close she is letting me get to her now. I'm slowly advancing towards "Okie" (the Colt, or "Moon"), but Cindy steps between us at about 3 ft or so. I got all the patience in the world. I hope they survive the storms that are passing through Woods/Alfalfa County Thursday and Friday night.
marefoal23may.jpg

I'm going to leave you here for now with the following saying that someone emailed me a few days ago, "The people who make a difference in your life are not the ones with the most credentials, the most money, or the most awards. They are the ones that care."

I care about all of you and wish you all a safe memorial weekend. You all make a pleasurable difference in my life everyday! Thanks for letting me come into a little piece of your life with my newsletter.

o OAKIE's LINKS & MAILBAG

I wanted to share this view of Fair Valley, Oklahoma that I took this week of May, 2000 showing the golden, waving wheat in the background on the left as you look down the paved, blacktop Freedom/Fair Valley road.
fvwest23may.jpg

West and South of Fair Valley and south of Warwick Hills (known as McGill Hills by some) are the Sweet, Fields of Yellow Clover growing and blooming on the red flats along with the natural prairie grass. woods/yellowclover.html

"Hi, Linda! Regarding your suggestion of loving and trusting horses: there is a fine book out there which extends it to all things (including humans, by the way!) by Martin Buber: "I and Thou." It is a bit heavy but richly rewarding for all who read it. The first few chapters are easy -- then he gets into the detail and it slows down. But it is all ood."

CONCERNING "SENECA" & "SENEGA" -- "In ancient Rome, letters C and G were often used interchangeably, perhaps because they didn't have typewriters then? Thus Julius Cæsar's first name was Caius or Gaius, depending on who wrote it. Later on, Shakespeare spelled his OWN name in many ways-- apparently it was the sound that was important, not the script."

"Linda, you never fail to teach me something - therefore, many thanks again... So I go back to the books and I find that the ancient Roman alphabet was taken in part from the ETRUSAN alphabet which was derived from the Phoenicians. [do you suppose this is where we get the word phonetics?]. The original etrusan alphabet consisted of 26 letters of which the Romans adopted only 21.

"In ancient Roman times there were two main types of Latin script, capital letters and cursive. There were also varieties of writing that mixed capitals and cursive or semicursive letters; Latin uncial script developed from such a mixed form in the 3rd century AD. In the Middle Ages many different Latin scripts developed from capital, cursive, and uncial forms. The round "humanistic" handwriting, used for copying books, and a more angular cursive script, used for legal and commercial purposes in 15th-century Italy, gave rise, respectively, to the roman and italic typefaces currently used in printing."

"I've started renovating my personal web site here in Alva, and I thought I would pass it along to you: www.alvant.alva.ok.us/plsteed/index.html See what you think. School's out, and I'm staying up late (grin)" -- Patricia L. Steed, Ph.D. - Associate Professor of English.
NWOSU Web Page: www.nwosu.edu/English/drsteed.htm
Personal Web Page: www.alvant.alva.ok.us/plsteed/alvapage.htm"

"The Digital Millennium Copyright Act -- On October 12, 1998, the U.S. Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, ending many months of turbulent negotiations regarding its provisions. Two weeks later, on October 28th, President Clinton signed the Act into law" www.gseis.ucla.edu/iclp/dmca1.htm

ATTENTION GOLDBUG, CLASS of "80 --
"Hi, The Class of 1980 informal get-together with food and set-ups info is as follows:
When: Saturday, July 1, 2000
Time: 7:00 - 9:00 P.M.
Where: 1808 Skyview Dr (Home of Gregg Glass)
Cost: $10.00
Please R.S.V.P. Before June 10, 2000. Thanks for sharing this info with anyone who might be interested."
"jebbia" mailto:jebbia@gateway.net

GOLDBUG REUNION, CLASS MEETINGS --
"Linda -- I am the person on the Reunion Committee charged with trying to keep track of when and where classes are meeting. Here is the information that I have so far:
Class of '44: Saturday, July 1, 10:00 a.m., AHS room 115
Class of '47: Saturday, July 1, 5:30 p.m., College Hill Church of Christ
Class of '49: Day and time unknown, AHS room 102 (Miss Duke's room)
Class of '51: Sunday, July 2, 2:00 p.m., AHS room 106
Class of '60: Duration of the reunion, AHS cafeteria
Class of '58-'62: Friday, June 30, 8:00 p.m., VFW
Class of '63: Saturday, July 1, 10:00 a.m., AHS room 104
Class of '71-'72: Saturday, July 1, 8:00 p.m., 1029 Center
Class of '74, 75, 76: 7:00 p.m. Saturday, July 1, at the new armory south of town
Class of '87: Saturday, July 1, 10:00 a.m., AHS room 103
Class of '89: Sat., July 1, 11:30 a.m., Sacred Heart Family Life Center
Class of '94: Saturday,July 1, evening, AHS room 107
When a class organizes itself and decides when it would like to meet, it can contact me and I can arrange a space in a school for their meeting. If a class does not want to meet in a school, but arranges a meeting somewhere else, let me know so that I can put it on the schedule. Thanks for getting this information out to your readers. Mark Ritchey, mailto:mritchey@feist.com, AHS '60"

While you are out this memorial weekend, drive safely, stop and say a prayer to remember those who died and lost their lives in our Wars. Did you know that, "Memorial Day was first officially proclaimed on 5 May 1868 by General John Logan, national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, in his General Order No. 11, and was first observed on 30 May 1868, when flowers were placed on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery."
www.mountaindragon.com/memorial/backgrnd.html
www.mountaindragon.com/memorial/

OTHER MEMORIAL DAY WEB SITES

Memorial Day In Cyberspace. - members.xoom.com/web_lady/memorial/
Freedom Isn't Free! Thanks, Vets! - www.geocities.com/Heartland/2328/memday.htm

o QUOTE/POEM OF THE WEEK

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around." -- Leo Buscaglia, cited in The Best of BITS & PIECES

"Just like the seasons there are reasons for the paths we take. There are no mistakes just lessons to be learned. Don't give up. Keep on looking deep inside. There's a gift for those who believe..." 'Lessons To Be Learned' from the CD "Higher Ground", Barbra Streisand.

WINNER - 26 May FREE DRAWING:

26 May 2000, "Little Running Deer" lucky winner is... Sharon Wiley

For those who haven't sent in your names for the FREE Weekly drawing --
You can Email Oakie at mailto:oakiebelle@pldi.net w/SUBJECT: OakiesHHDrawing.
I will stick your name in my glass fishbowl. Every Friday, 11:00P.M.
David will draw out the winning name. For more info on the drawing check out.

For all those Summer Fishermen out there, Here's a "Catch of the Day" for Next week drawing, 2 June 2000, Friday .

Have a Safe Memorial Weekend! See Y'all next weekend!'

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