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The Okie Legacy

January - 2001

"Home is where the heart is!
Where spirit, soul are in harmony with the universe!"
Millennium Edition - OkieLegacy.org
27 January 2001, Vol. III, Iss. 4

Editor's Note...

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Thanks for you understanding and patience while we make our New move for this "Oakie's February Birthday Present " in the near future.

Oakie's Column...

This last weekend (Saturday, 20 January 2001) we saw the swearing-in of our 43rd President, George "Duhhh... bya" Bush. A few roped-off protesters also gathered along Pennsylvania Avenue to let their voices heard.

If you had enough extra cash lying around after paying your natural gas heating bill and were in the nation's capital, you might have been able to purchase one of those high-priced tickets to view the parade in the stands along the parade route...

OR... You might have been lucky enough to afford a tux, boots, etc. (Texas formal clothing) to attend one the fancy inaugural balls with all the other Republicans. If... they had not sold out early, that is!

My democratic godmother did NOT show up in time for this "Yellow-dog-Democrat" to attend... LOL... The "chads" & "dimples " slowed her arrival -- The pumpkin wouldn't start -- Besides that, the cat ate the mice -- The wheels of the coach kept falling in the winter potholes on her trip through Oklahoma!

But what the Hey!.... The next best thing is having a DC correspondent with a digital camera and a  hookup to a modem.

That gives this "Yellow-dog Democrat" & "Okie" (AND... Proud of it!) more time in the country with my yearling colt, Okie Moon.

Speaking of Moon,... he is still a beautiful dark horse of a different color. His natural, winter, fuzz is a dark brown with three-white stockings and a white moon spot in the middle of his forehead.

I truly believe that he still remembers me. He allows me to side up to him -- sniffs my outreached arm of friendship & respect -- likes to be petted underneath his jaw, forehead and neck area. Closeup of OkieMoon

Bud says, "It's your quiet nature that has settled the yearlings down."

I like watching his ears perk up to attention as I talk to him. It's kind of like my sister's miniature schnauser, Daisy. Daisy is another pet that has this way with her ears that radiates her personalty.

-- Linda - "Oakie"

In Search of....

WWII POW Reunions & Guards...

Recently, I have received an Email from a filmmaker from Jersey City, NJ. Roland Millman is looking for people, organizations with any kind of information about the German POWs and POW camps in the U.S. during WWII.

Mr. Millman is the owner of Brightscreen Productions. They produce films, videos for corporate use - motivational, sales, promotion, advertising and training.  If you can search for "They Were Not Silent" and "Roland Millman ", you will find fesitval references concerning his last documentary film, "They Were Not Silent: The Jewish Labor Movement and the Holocaust."

The project he is working on now concerns the WWII POW camps in the USA. It is being co-produced by Millman's Brightscreen Productions and Dieter Marcello. Dieter's company is Filmmedia GmbH in Marbach, Germany.

Millman has been doing research at the National Archives which has provided a good base for the film. He has been in contact with a number of former POWs and ex-U.S. Army guards. A number of researchers and scholars have agreed to help with the endeavor.

Millman says, "Financing for the project will be financed through production grants from foundations supported by the German government, U.S. public and private arts and humanities grants, private donations and distribution proceeds. The film will be produced as a project of a U.S. non-profit organization."

Millman would like to hookup with people, groups and organizations with any kind of information about the German POWs and POW camps in the USA during WWII. He partically interested in speaking with people; interviewing them on-camera; and filming at reunions, gatherings and ceremonies surrounding the former POWs and POW camps.

For more information, you may contact Roland Millman to check out his credentials via E-mail ruvn@aol.com

OR... Snail-mail....
Brightscreen Productions
144 Morris Street, 2nd Fl.
Jersey City, NJ 07302-4443
201-451-6984
201-451-6985 fax

Architectural Blueprints & Photos...

Dr. Sheila Barnes, assistant professor of education at Northwestern Oklahoma State University , is hoping to find architectural blueprints & photographs of Northwestern's Castle on the Hill building to assist her in a grant project. Any persons with treasures, blueprints, or photos of the Castle are asked to call Barnes at (580)327-8444.

For those of you who do NOT know,... the Castle on the Hill was the first structure built on the Norhtwestern Normal campus and modeled after a Normal Castle. Construction of the 3-story building was completed in 1899. On March 1, 1935, the castle was destroyed by fire.

DC Correspondent

M.Wags, DC Correspondent

What can I say, but it was a wet, cold, and a miserable day when G . "Dubya" Bush took office.Cavalry.jpg

I got down close to the parade route on Pennsylvania Avenue in time to see the first family head for home from the Capital at 2:30 PM.

Well, I didn't actually see anything with all the rich folk who paid to sit in the bleachers and the protesters at the Archive-Navy Memorial (See pictures ).

The protesters did play a round of capture the flag with the police. Someone took down and ran off with one of the flags at the Navy Memorial and another protester replaced an old American flag upside down on the flag pole.

When the limos drove by all the protesters put their fingers in the air and saluted and chanted, "Not my President." ProtestSalute.jpg

Once I had enough pictures of the protesters, I journeyed down toward the White House. I found a better place to watch the parade standing out front of the Washington Hotel across the street from the White House. I also got a picture of Drew Cary who was riding a Hummer up 15th Street.

I think the police chief went a little overboard because there was a line of police along both sides of the parade route standing in front of the spectators. That is why you see police in every picture I took.

Mailbag & Links....

"I am interested in whether you have information on early Indian Territory photographers (specifically, J.F. Standiford) etc. Thanks. Eric, Charlotte, NC."

Virtual White House Tour - " A virtual online tour and highlights the rooms seen on the live tour and describes their functions and features."

David Rumsey's Old Maps - The David Rumsey Collection focuses on 18th & 19th century North and South American cartographic materials. The collection includes atlases, globes, school geographies, maritime charts, and a variety of separate maps including pocket, wall, children's and manuscript maps.

"Linda, I don't want to miss a single one of your Heart to Heart letters. Please change my email address. I will love you forever."

Black-eyed Peas Festival -- "Perhaps the only 'black eyed pea festival' in the whole world is at Hollis every August." WC Osborn

Hollis, Harmon County, SW Oklahoma --  The county is known today as the "Irrigation Center of the Southwest." Hollis is the county seat. The Black-Eyed Pea Festival is held annually during the second week in August. Two Harmon County history books, "Planning the Route" and "Planning the Route 2," are available.

In the year of 1976... The Oklahoma Pharmaceutical Assoc. awarded the 'Bowl of Hygeia' which is depicted here to an honorable, southern gentleman from Carter County, Oklahoma. The little bronze plate on the front, states the following:  BowlHygeia.jpg

"Award for outstanding community service in pharmacy - Ernest D. Martin, June 13, 1976. "

On the back of the rather heavy rosewood plaque, the following words are inscribed....

"The 'Bowel of Hygeia' most widely recognized international symbol of pharmacy, had it origin in Greek mythology. The Bowl, containing a healing potion, and the serpent, meaning wisdom of guardianship, were associated symbolically in Greco-Roman antiquity with the virgin Goddess of Health, Hygeia. She was the daughter and assistant of Aesculapius (sometimes spelled Asklepios), the God of Medicine and healing.  When A.H. Robins established in 1958 an award honoring community service by pharmacist, the 'Bowl of Hygeia' design was a natural choice to symbolize such a award, which is presented annually."

Besides being a southern Okla. pharmicist, Ernest D. Martin is also an accompliced artist trained at the "Chicago Art Institute " and a retired State Senator, District 14, 1964-1982 -- in southern Oklahoma.

You may view some of his Artistic talents at his " Fathers Legacy ." If you do drop by his web place, sign one of his guestbooks and tell him, "Oakie sent you!"

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