Duchess Mtn Spring Domain

Does anyone out there remember when Sand Plums ripen?

It seems like it is around the last of June or first of July when the sand plums are ready for picking, but I could be wrong on that. I am only a Pug Dog, you know!

If anyone from Kansas or Oklahoma knows for sure when sand plums ripen for the pickin', please inform us! The Prairie Connection would also like to have your sand plum recipes, stories, etc... for a future issue in The Prairie Connection. Contact: Rosalea Hostetler at Email: wepreserve@balmerfund.org with your sand plum recipes and stories.

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Green Grow the Lilacs: The Play

Green Grow The Lilacs: The Play, written by Lynn Riggs, Samuel French Inc., 1931, ISBN 0573609624. Green Grow the Lilacs (01/26/1931 - 03/21/1931), was a play in six scenes.

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Reported Death of Jesse James

The Minnesota Newspaper Headline, dated 6 April 1882, reported the death of Jesse James was mentioned in the Rice County Journal, with the following Headlines: "SHOT BY ROBERT FORD, MISSOURI, RICE CO [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Claud Baird (Poet)

Memories of Claud Baird by his grandson, Chuck Baird, "I was looking for something about my grandfather, Claud Baird, and came across your page where you had found some of his poetry (Claud Baird Patriotic Poems). I remember the patriotic poems booklet from when I was a kid, and I think I may even have a copy of it packed away out in the garage.

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Request For Sand Plum Jelly & Other Recipes

The Prairie Connection (Email: wepreserve@balmerfund.org) through Rosalea Hostetler is requesting, "Sand Plum Jelly and other recipes to feature in the near future issue of the Prairie Connection.

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Rollie Lynn Riggs (1899-1954)

Perhaps some of you Okie's around Claremore, Oklahoma might remember this famous author, poet and playwright, Rollie Lynn Riggs, born August 31, 1899 – died June 30, 1954, who was born on a farm near Claremore, Oklahoma. You might remember Riggs for his play, Green Grow the Lilacs. (Do lilacs really grow green, though?)

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Oklahoma! (A Musical)

The midi file - Oklahoma!
Oklahoma! was the first musical written by composer Richard Rodgers and librettist Oscar Hammerstein II. The musical was based on Lynn Riggs' 1931 play, "Green Grow the Lilacs." Set in Oklahoma Territory outside the town of Claremore in 1906, it tells the story of cowboy Curly McLain and his romance with farm girl Laurey Williams.

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The James-Younger Gang

The James-Younger Gang had its origins in a group of Confederate "bushwhackers" who fought in the bitter partisan conflict that wracked the divided state of Missouri during the American Civil War.

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First Assembly Lines at Ford Plant

Ellis Raymer sent this video showing the first assembly lines at the original Ford auto plant [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Green Grow the Lilacs (A Folksong)

One version of Green Grow the Lilacs, the lyrics opens:
Chorus
Green grow the lilacs, all sparkling with dew
I'm lonely, my darling, since parting with you;
But by our next meeting IU'll hope to prove true
And change the green lilacs to the Red, White and Blue.

I once had a sweetheart, but now I have none
She's gone and she's left me, I care not for one
Since she's gone and left me, contented I'll be,
For she loves another one better than me.

Chorus
I passed my love's window, both early and late
The look that she gave me, it makes my heart ache;
Oh, the look that she gave me was painful to see,
For she loves another one better than me.

Chorus
I wrote my love letters in rosy red lines,
She sent me an answer all twisted and twined;
Saying,"Keep your love letters and I will keep mine
Just you write to your love and I'll write to mine.

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Pony Express Debuts - Apr 3, 1860

It was one hundred and fifty years ago this April 3, (1860 to be exact), the first Pony Express mail, traveling by horse and rider relay teams, simultaneously left St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California.

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The American outlaw Jesse James

Jesse Woodson James (September 5, 1847 – April 3, 1882) and his brother Frank James were Confederate guerrillas during the Civil War. They were accused of participating in atrocities committed against Union soldiers.

After the war, as members of one gang or another, they robbed banks. They also robbed stagecoaches and trains. Jesse Woodson James was born September 5, 1847, in Clay County, Missouri, USA, died April 3, 1882 (aged 34), at St. Joseph, Missouri, USA. Jesse's was an American, who was known for his Banditry.

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Another Warwick Descendant Connection

Andrew Cameron Blandford (Email: blandford@eastpoint37n76w [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe