Duchess of Weaselskin

Bayfield, CO - This Duchess Pug awoke at 8:43am to a couple of inches of wet snow that had fallen during the early morning hours. The photo on the left is looking towards County Road 500, in Bayfield, Colorado.

I knew I did not want to move fast this morning from beneath the warmth comfort of the comforter, but NW Okie tempted me with some rubbing behind my ears and on my belly. I was hijacked into going outside to run my usual traps and doing it in the cold, sogginess of 2 inches of snow. Burrrrrrr!

Besides that first step into the early morning snow, this Duchess Pug was taken for a long walk up the road later in the afternoon. NW Okie thinks we all need our walking exercise, I guess, huh?

OK! Enough of my picky moments! I am going to leave you with this quote that NW Okie found to give you something to think about with what is going on in the world today.

Robert Louis Stevenson is quoted as saying, "Give us grace and strength to forebear and persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends and soften to us our enemies. Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another."

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100 Years Ago Today

America - One hundred years ago today, November 21, 1911, these are a few of the following front page headlines that appeared in The World, Evening edition in New York: "Hetty Green, 77 Today, Has the Spunk of 20 Men, And Is Growing Younger," "Willett Accused In Court Warrant As a Vote Buyer," "Woman Who Shot Three Runs Away From Matteawan," "30 Suffragettes Are Arrested In London Invasion," "Girl Victim Tells Jury Full Story of Tar Party."

As to the story of the wealthiest woman who celebrated her 77th birthday, 21 November 1911, Hetty Green gave this birthday message to others through The World. "Have a good conscience, good appetite and goo will toward others if you want to live long." Hetty Green, the richest woman in the world, gave an interview to a reporter from The Evening World, the occasion being her seventy-seventh birthday. She had been asked how to live to be one hundred years old.

Hetty replied as she seated herself in a chair beside the desk of her son, Col. E. H. R. Green, in their office on the sixth floor of No. 111 Broadway, "I have never gone up into the cobwebs. You can rely on me for the truth and common sense. I can tell you how to live to be seventy-seven years old."

Hetty was born in 1834 and goes on to say, "To live to any good old age I would prescribe for young people the possession of first, a good conscience, Second, a good appetite for the best food plainly cooked and third, good will to others. If they will follow those rules they will live as long as they want to."

You can read the rest of the story at the following LINK. To read about the "30 Suffragettes Are Arrested In London Invasion" and "Girl Victim Tells Jury Full Story of Tar party" news features that appeared in that same paper, scroll down through this weeks OkieLegacy Ezine. View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

NW Okie's Corner

Bayfield, CO - I was organizing my iPhoto collection of old family photos and found the photo on the left of my Grandpa Bill McGill with his two sons, Gene M McGill and Robert Lee McGill. I wish they had written the date of the photo and what exactly they were doing back then. I can only assume. Anyway, I love this old photo of a father and his two sons posing with what looks like their homemade fishing poles.

As I was browsing through my "Oakiepics" (Webshots) albums I found some photos I had forgotten that I had taken of a Paris Family Reunion held September 6, 2001, in Chester, Oklahoma (some might referred to Chester as Cottonwood Corners or Tailholt). Here is the slideshow and a link to Oakiepics (Webshots) Slideshow - Paris Reunion 2001.


Paris Reunion 2001

To see more photos of the PARIS and CONOVER ancestry and descendants that we have accumulated, you can browse our NW OKie Facebook photo albums. You can also view our An OkieLegacy Blog by clicking the link above.

We heard from a viewer this week who commented on the Vol. 13, Iss. 3, dated 2011-01-17, concerning the Saline Game Preserve (Dog Ranch). Paula Denson commented, "I would like to know more about the names of the oil men from Tulsa and OKC. do you know any more?"

If anyone has any more information than what we have accumulated so far, please leave a comment below or on the link above. Thanks for your help.

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Tuck's Wonder Store - Ingersoll, OK

Ingersoll, Oklahoma - We had an inquiry about Ingersoll, Oklahoma and Tuck's Wonder store this week. Does anyone know why Tuck kept the tools he sold on the floor of his Tuck's Wonder Store that set on the Northside of the highway, in Ingersoll, Oklahoma?

OkieLegacy Ezine Feature #5322 Time Troutt comments, "I spent my early years wandering around Tuck's wonder store. 1961 until 1975 I spent every summer just west of Tuck's working ground and wondering about Tuck's store. Does anyone know why Tuck kept the tools he sold on the floor? I've spent my later years wondering why Tuck did this. Please help me I don't want to go to my grave not knowing." View/Write Comments (count 1)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Native American Legends - An Acoma Legend

America - Have you ever heard of the Acoma Legend concerning the "Blue Corn Maiden and the coming of Winter?"

The Acoma, "people of the white rock, were one of many pueblo cultures of the southwest. The Acoma Pueblo is located in west central new Mexico and were multi-unit, multi-family dwellings made of adobe bricks, which were located at the top of a 350-foot steep mesa that was carved from a huge plateau thousands of years ago by fast moving river water, home otto the Acoma people for more than 800 years.

It's positioning provided natural defenses against enemies who would try to steal corn they raised, and the arid land actually is home to a host of dozens of plants and small burrowing animals that provided additional sources of food. READ MORE about the Acoma.

Blue Corn Maiden and the Coming of Winter

Blue Corn Maiden was the prettiest of the corn maiden sisters. The Pueblo People loved her very much, and loved the delicious blue corn that she gave them all year long. Not only was Blue Corn Maiden beautiful, but she also had a kind and gentle spirit. She brought peace and happiness to the People of the Pueblos.

One cold winter day, Blue Corn Maiden went out to gather firewood. This was something she would not normally do. While she was out of her adobe house, she saw Winter Katsina. Winter Katsina is the spirit who brings the winter to the Earth. He wore his blueand-white mask and blew cold wind with his breath. But when Winter Katsina saw Blue Corn Maiden, he loved her at once.

He invited her to come to his house, and she had to go with him. Inside his house, he blocked the windows with ice and the doorway with snow and made Blue Corn Maiden his prisoner. Although Winter Katsina was very kind to Blue Corn Maiden and loved her very much, she was sad living with him. She wanted to go back to her own house and make the blue corn grow for the People of the Pueblos.

Winter Katsina went out one day to do his duties, and blow cold wind upon the Earth and scatter snow over the mesas and valleys. While he was gone, Blue Corn Maiden pushed the snow away from the doorway, and went out of the house to look for the plants and foods she loved to find in summer. Under all the ice and snow, all she found was four blades of yucca.

She took the yucca back to Winter Katsina's house and started a fire. Winter Katsina would not allow her to start a fire when he was in the house.

When the fire was started, the snow in the doorway fell away and in walked Summer Katsina. Summer Katsina carried in one hand fresh corn and in the other many blades of yucca. He came toward his friend Blue Corn Maiden.

Just then, Winter Katsina stormed through the doorway followed by a roar of winter wind. Winter Katsina carried an icicle in his right hand, which he held like a flint knife, and a ball of ice in his left hand, which he wielded like a hand- axe. It looked like Winter Katsina intended to fight with Summer Katsina.

As Winter Katsina blew a blast of cold air, Summer Katsina blew a warm breeze. When Winter Katsina raised his icicle-knife, Summer Katsina raised his bundle of yucca leaves, and they caught fire. The fire melted the icicle.

Winter Katsina saw that he needed to make peace with Summer Katsina, not war. The two sat and talked.

They agreed that Blue Corn Maiden would live among the People of the Pueblos and give them her blue corn for half of the year, in the time of Summer Katsina. The other half of the year, Blue Corn Maiden would live with Winter Katsina and the People would have no corn.

Blue Corn Maiden went away with Summer Katsina, and he was kind to her. She became the sign of springtime, eagerly awaited by the People.

Sometimes, when spring has come already, Winter Katsina will blow cold wind suddenly, or scatter snow when it is not the snow time. He does this just to show how displeased he is to have to give up Blue Corn Maiden for half of the year. View/Write Comments (count 2)   |   Receive updates (2 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

On This Day In History (November 21)

America - On this date in history, Nov. 21, 1964, New York's Verrazano Narrows Bridge opened. Go to article. On Nov. 21, 1904, Coleman Hawkins, the pioneering American jazz saxophonist, was born. Following his death on May 19, 1969, his obituary appeared in The Times. Go to obituary.

On This Date, 21 November 2011:

• 1789 - North Carolina became the 12th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
• 1922 - Rebecca L. Felton of Georgia was sworn in as the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate.
• 1969 - The Senate voted down the Supreme Court nomination of Clement F. Haynsworth.
• 1973 - President Richard Nixon's attorney, J. Fred Buzhardt, revealed the existence of an 18 1/2-minute gap in one of the White House tape recordings related to Watergate.
• 1980 - A fire at the MGM Grand Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas killed 87 people.
• 1985 - Former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard was arrested, accused of spying for Israel. (He later pleaded guilty and is serving a life sentence.)
• 1989 - The proceedings of Britain's House of Commons were televised live for the first time.
• 1991 - The U.N. Security Council chose Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt to be secretary-general.
• 1995 - The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 5,000 for the first time.

1911 - Thirty Suffragettes Are Arrested In London Invasion

Was your grandmother or other female ancestry a member of the Suffragettes? Have you ever heard any stories of the Suffragettes?

Protestors are nothing new to the World! In The World Evening News, dated November 21, 1911, the following article concerning the suffragettes being arrested in London as their procession attempts to force police guard outside parliament. Here's the rest of the story below.

London, Nov. 21 1911 -- The police made thirty arrests while preventing the suffragettes from reaching the House of Parliament this evening and carrying out their threat "to push a way through the passages and through the lobby of the House of Commons and make a protest on the floor of the House."

The story goes on to read, "There is a law prohibiting demonstrations within a mile of the precincts of Parliament, and Caxton Hall, from which the suffragettes started, is less than a mile from Parliament Square."

"A strong force of police was drawn up outside Caxton Hall and foot and mounted men guarded every route to the Houses of Parliament.

"The suffragettes, however, were more determined than ever to make a demonstration against what they described as the great insult Mr. Asquith has given when he refused to give a pledge that the Government would undertake to pass a bill giving equal suffrage to both sexes. They called for volunteers for "dangerous service," whose duties were secret, but probably were to attempt to invade the House or make other physical demonstrations. "As the suffragettes left Caxton Hall and attempted to force their way through the police cordon, constables made wholesale arrests. Thirty demonstrators were locked up in the first fifteen minutes. An immense crowd had gathered.

"All the streets converging on the Houses of parliament were jammed with members of the suffragette army. There were enough policemen to quell a riot.

"The women attacked the place with fury and the officers were compelled to use considerable force. The streets were soon littered with hats, capes, and parts of gowns that had been torn from the fighting women." View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Girl Victim Tells Jury full Story of "Tar Party" (1911)

Lincoln Centere, Kansas - Have you ever heard of the August 1911 "Tar Party" where Miss Mary Chamberlain gave details before a jury of a trap set by masked assailants where Miss Chamberlain was abducted and tarred by the mask men?

"On November 21, 1911, in Lincoln Centere, Kansas, in a crowded court room Miss Mary Chamberlain, young and pretty, appeared before Judge Glover and related the events of the night of August 7, 1911, when she was tarred by masked men.

"Except for an occasional break in her voice, a slight tightening of her lips, as she repeated the details of the outrage, no one would have guessed she was relating her own experiences. Now and then a nervous twitching of her hands, an averted glance which seemed to try to avoid the curious gaze from the packed court room, betrayed the feeling that she strove to conceal.

"Once, when describing the manner in which her clothes were torn from her, she seemed in danger of breaking down. Grasping the rail of the witness box, her eyes fixed on her father and mother, she told of her feelings as the tar splashed against her skin. Miss Chamberlain was asked, "Why didn't you call for help?"

Miss Chamaberlain replied, "I did call. I screamed. But Ricord, my escort, had hidden in the bushes and did not appear until it was all over."

"Miss Chamberlain told how Edward Ricord, the village Beau Brummel, insisted that she accompany him; of his strange manner as they neared the rendezvous; of the sudden appearance of masked men who pointed a "gun" -- afterward discovered to be a toy pistol -- at the buggy; of her appeal to Ricord and his hasty retreat into the bushes; of being dragged to a huge bonfire, where three men tore off her clothing from her waist down and held her prostrate while the sticky mass was applied.

Miss Chamberlain continued, "When it was all over they left me and Ricord came from his hiding place, helped me into my clothes and, with the tar dripping from me, we drove to my home."

"The faces of the jurors, all but two of whom are married, hardened and expressions of pity for the witness and anger at the defendants were heard from all parts of the court-room.

"The day's session opened with the examination of Ricord, who had previously confessed having been hired to lure the girl to the place where she was to be tarred." View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe