The Okie Legacy: Looking Back ... 40 Years Ago Today Apollo 11 - 40th Anniversary Looking Back ... That's The Way It Was 1905, January - Russia Revolution 1916 - Einstein, WWI, Etc... Insight Into Grandma & John C. McClure Indian Guinn's From Oklahoma/Arkansas Grandma's Lye Soap The Making of Lye Soap Class of '59 Project for NWOSU Changeable Oklahoma WWII POW Camp - Okemah, OK The People's Chronology

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Volume 11 , Issue 29

2009

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Looking Back ... 40 Years Ago Today

What were you doing 40 years ago today, July 20, 1969, Sunday? Were you one of 500 million people that were seated in front of a television set, mesmerized by the continuous television coverage of the lunar module's descent toward the moon's cratered surface?

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Apollo 11 - 40th Anniversary



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Looking Back ... That's The Way It Was

Remember this quote that a CBS news anchorman used to sign-off with, "That?s the way it is?"

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1905, January - Russia Revolution

A Russian revolution had begun after a peaceful workers' demonstration led by a priest was machine-gunned January 9, 1905 in front of the Winter Palace at St [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe


1916 - Einstein, WWI, Etc...

The general theory of relativity announced by Albert Einstein revolutionized the science of physics. At the University of Berlin and a director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, Einstein had evolved the theory from his work in the geometrization of physics and the integration of gravitational, accelerational, and magnetic phenomena which he would unite into a unified field theory represented by a single set of equations.

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Insight Into Grandma & John C. McClure

This week we find ourselves looking back to March, 1905, with four more letters from John C. McClure, of Altona, Illinois, and sent to Miss Constance Warwick of Alva, Oklahoma Territory.

We find out this week that the first part of March, 1905, John is still in Altona, Illinois, but on the Wednesday before March 31st, Saturday, 1905 John C. McClure showed up in Alva, Oklahoma Territory, allegedly working at The First National Bank of Alva, Oklahoma and taken care of business at his farm near Alva.

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Indian Guinn's From Oklahoma/Arkansas

I have heard from someone (Andy Quinn - andyguinn@yahoo.com) earlier this week looking for more information on something that we posted in our Oakie Heart to Heart newsletter about 9 years ago in Vol. 2, entitled "The Crooked Bridge Story."

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Grandma's Lye Soap

Last weeks newsletter we shared a mp3 file of of Johnny Standley's record entitled, "It's In the Book, Part I & II." This week we would like to share a bit of information and the words to the song about "Grandma's Lye Soap."

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The Making of Lye Soap

How did they make lye soap back in the Appalachins?

At the annual hog-killing time, the lard was saved and mixed with lye and water to form the soap.

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Class of '59 Project for NWOSU

James Bradley says, "Dear Fellow Friends of NWOSU, Howdy fellow classmates. It is hard to fathom that 50 years has passed since that joyous day in June 1959 when we walked across the stage, received our Diploma, shook hands with the officials, and moved our Tassels from the right to the left side.

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Changeable Oklahoma

Roy says, "I think it was Will Rogers who said, "if you don't like the weather in Oklahoma just wait a minute!"

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WWII POW Camp - Okemah, OK

Dolores Frimel says, "Stephen Ryyker, I too was born in Okemah in 1936. I remember walking by ( I believe it was called the Pecan bowl ) and the prisoners waving at us.

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The People's Chronology

David found "The People's Chronology" book at a garage sale awhile back, here in SW Colorado. It is a year-by-year record of human events from Prehistory to the present (1973), edited by James Trager, published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York.

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