Volume 12 , Issue 17

Duchess Spring Domain

Another Spring week in the Colorado Rockies for this Duchess Pug. NW Okie and David have been busy packing, moving and cleaning to a NEW Location here in the beautiful, cool Rocky Mountains of Southwest Colorado. My friend, Max the Pug, came over earlier this afternoon so we could say our goodbyes to each other. Max marked my territory while I marked his. I am going to miss Max little visits.

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OkieLegacy Ezine & Facebook - Socially Networked

Are you a Facebook user? Are you one of those socially networking with friends and family?

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OkieLegacy & Facebook Recommendations

If you click on the "View/Write Comments" link under each OkieLegacy feature you will see another "Facebook Social plugin" called "Recommendations" with a "Like" button, also. We know what the "Like" button does -- shares the article you like with your friends and/or you can leave a comment if you so desire.

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Share Favorite Stories

Okie Legacy has connected to facebook's Social Graph.

Facebook made it easier to share content from websites to your friends and connections last week. Once you click on the 'View/Comment' link, you will see a Like button at the top-right of the browser window. This button will publish a link to the Okie feature story on your wall for others to access.

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NORTHWESTERN YEARBOOKS FROM PAST YEARS AVAILABLE

The Office of University Relations at Northwestern Oklahoma State University is offering for sale a number of excess yearbooks it has stored in its office.

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Tick Removal Anyone?

Remember this one? Spring will be here soon and the ticks will soon be showing their heads. Here is a good way to get them off you, your children, or your pets. Give it a try.

Please forward to anyone with children... or hunters or dogs, or anyone who even steps outside in summer!!

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Peter & Peeps - Rescued Baby Hummingbird Fed In Hand

February 08, 2010 - Fallen baby hummingbird rescued, nursed to health, and fed by mother hummingbird while being held by Peter Tommerup, Saratoga CA, June 2007 [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Nature - Behind the Scenes of Humminbirds

PBS - January 09, 2010 -   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Inquiry: David & Donaldson Family

Custer1963 on Rootsweb message board, woods county 1890s [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (1 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Burma Shave History

Homer Hawkins shares this information about Burma Shave. He writes, "BURMA SHAVE -- For some of us, this brings back great memories. For you younger ones, you don't know what you missed!

For those who never saw any of the Burma Shave signs, here is a quick lesson in our history of the 1930's and '40's. Before there were interstates, when everyone drove the old two lane roads, Burma Shave signs would be posted all over the countryside in farmers' fields.

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OkieLegacy Guestbook

Roy Hogan signed our OkieLegacy Guestbook and says, "Hello just checking out Alva, OK because my big sister lives there and I never can find the chance to see her, Grace Martin, I think is her last name [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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World War I & China Laborers

Here is an interesting part of history most people don't know. This article is China and the First World War, dated April 22, 2010, written for The Economist print edition, in Ypres, Belgium.

It states, "China sent 140,000 labourers to the mud and barbed wire of the Western Front. They dug trenches, toiled in docks and railway yards or worked in arms factories for the allies."

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Tea Parties Created As A Political Ploy

Steve sent us this interesting Article about the Tea Party [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (6 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull Volcano

Ellis sent us some interesting photos taken by Mark King (I believe) of Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull Volcano I Iceland. You can see these photos at TechOat.com - 35 Unbelieveable Images of Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull Volcano. Checkout the lightning streaks across the sky as lava flows from a volcano in Eyjafjallajokull, April 17, 2010.

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Cherokee Strip Museum - Alva On Facebook

The Cherokee Strip Museum at Alva is now on Facebook!

If you have a Facebook profile, you might check out Cherokee Strip Museum-- Alva for the latest updates on the "Old Alva General Hospital and hauntings research that has been going on this last week or so.

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