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It wasn’t until 1975 that I met my step-uncle, George Armstrong, down in SE Oklahoma near Valiant. Another uncle, Ezra of Petaluma, California, was visiting and he wanted to find this lost brother.
Read moreMy knowledge of stagecoaches is from watching those old black and white movies of the 40’s.
Read moreJust how much longer must we wait? And on who? Well, it is coming they tell us. And we might just add: “come soon.”
Read moreI did fairly good on memory stuff until I got to be about 80. Then I noticed it was hard for me to remember some people’s names. Names of some trees also come to mind. I have an ancient Box Elder tree in my back yard but alas, someone asked me one day what kind of tree it was and that was when I first noticed that its name had left me. Names of old friends— they came and went. But mostly I get by cause if I forget your name down at the post office, relax. It will come to me after I get home. Which brings me to another subject: Computers.
Read moreI did fairly good on memory stuff until I got to be about 80. Then I noticed it was hard for me to remember some people’s names. Names of some trees also come to mind.
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African American oil broker and civil rights advocate, Jake Simmons, was born on January 17, 1901 in Indian Territory at Sawokla, which later became Haskell.
Read moreWe have had several Pandemics over the past 100 years or so. Some of them as scary as this Covid virus. The worse in our times was back 1918, the flu. The scariest one of my own time was the old infectious Polio. This virus, like COVID could kill you— quick. And It very often caused paralysis in the surviving victim’s leg or other extremities. When I was a kid back in the 1940’s I was often warned about Polio, but I had little fear of it. Like everyone else, I had other things on my mind. I was busy.
Read moreAlongside I-40 going into Oklahoma City is a large billboard informing passersby that a large percentage of Oklahoma’s children face a hungry bedtime. In other words, need food. When I saw it, I thought of the old “Feed the Children” programs picturing little skinny starving kids needing some food and we need to “give” some money. But this was right here in America and that disturbs me. In fact, I do not believe it. These programs may be running to take financial care of those who happen to be running them with feeding kids as a secondary factor.
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