May Day, Hummingbirds & Friends

May Day 2008 brought many things to different parts of our world this week. Most of all it brought strong winds blowing a cold front through the San Juan mountains and dropping some snow in the higher elevations and blowing dust from a lake bed.

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Fall 1947, W. B. Hull vs. State of OK

When David was going through stuff in our Maple street house, he found this interesting old Subpoena in Criminal Case No. 1091 -- District Court of Woods County, Oklahoma, State of Oklahoma vs. W. B. Hull.

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Herb Gold Memories

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Growing Up In Oklahoma

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Santa Fe Moves Into One Office

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OkieLegacy Guestbook

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1958 - ARC Cartoon Fun For the Whole Family

Have you ever wondered what newspaper cartoons your folks were reading way back when? Well! Back in the Winter of 1958, the image to the left gives you a glimpse of what the newspaper cartoons were back then [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Gold In NW Oklahoma Territory

Yep! There was Gold in them "thar hills" of Northwest Oklahoma! It wasn't the sparkling gold, though. It was the Gold Brothers who settled in Woods County, Oklahoma Territory in 1898.

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Memories of Downtown Alva, OK

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More Herb Gold Memories

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Vallecito May Day

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Alva Review News - 02/16/1958

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Early NW Oklahoma Stores & Memorable People

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Herb Gold's Street Pickups - 1937

While I was thumbing through the Pioneer Footprints 1886-1986 history of Northwest Oklahoma, I came upon an interesting bio for Benjamin Berry that had a comment taken from one of Herb Gold's columns, entitled "Street Pickups," dated December, 1937, after Benjamin Berry's death.

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1944 - Lt. Craig Barker Missing Over France

"Linda, last week in the Woods County News items that you reprinted, there was a note about my cousin, Craig Barker, who was reported missing over France [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Monterey House Hotel - Virginia

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1929 - Public Schools of Today

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Memories of Downtown Alva, OK

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Highway 281 & Main Road To Alva, OK

I was letting myself ramble through the Woods County history book published in 1986, Pioneer Footprints Across Woods County [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe