Gaggles of Geese & Spring

It is a sunny, cloudy on this second Saturday of March 2007. Gaggles of geese have been flying overhead in the southwest Colorado valley for the last few days.

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Little House on the OK Prairie

- Little House on the Prairie midi (Click to Play.) -- "Carolyn and I were driving a few days ago Northeast of Freedom, just a mile off of highway 64, and found this wonderful old rock prairie home beside a county road. This link is to one of fourteen photos I have of it, posted on my Flickr photo site. I'm curious to know if anyone knows anything about the history of the old place. It is quite small, as you can tell from the photos, but has 'wood paneling' (real wood, not thin panel sheets like we use now), and the amazing part to me is that it was built with a concrete guttering around three sides, enabling the rain water to be collected in a cistern located on the north side of the house.

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Dacoma, OK Shooting - 1918

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Oklahoma Centennial Book: Mama Grace

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OkieLegacy Guestbook

Great-Grandmother Klanke [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

1930's NSTC Students - Alva, OK

Awhile back in an archive of the OkieLegacy Ezine we mentioned these old pictures of 1930's Northwestern State Teacher College (NSTC) students. We are still searching for identities of these 1930's NSTC students.

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Pop City, OK Story

We are in the process of taking down Kenneth Updike's stories and ramblings of "Growing Up In Oklahoma" because Kenneth asked us, "To remove all of my previous writings to you about my Ramblins [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Dacoma School District

"Perhaps the I in the school district designation stands for Independent [more]... View/Write Comments (count 1)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

McCann's & IOOF Carmen Children Home

"My mother (Velma McCann), her sister (Alma McCann) and their brother (Eugene McCann) were placed in the IOOF Carmen Children Home in 1938 [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Jogging More Memories

Rod Murrow sent us a link to one of his Flickr photos of an old homestead northeast of Freedom, Oklahoma, just a mile off of highway 64. It is what survives of a rock prairie home beside a county road. We are curious if anyone knows anything about the history of this old rock homestead.

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The Rest of the Story

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"I" for Independent District

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The Outsiders - Tulsa Oklahoma

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