Volume 11 , Issue 26

Dear Duchess

June 2009 is almost gone and July is just around the corner. For many in the small rural community of Dacoma, Oklahoma, that means staging a 3rd of July picnic and blowout of fireworks in their community park a day before Independence Day, July 4, 2009.

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Floyd Huddleston Info

We heard from a son of Floyd Huddleston this week, "Well! Being that my dad is Floyd Huddleston, I have quite a bit of info on him."

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Black Sunday Blizzard 1935

Online at History.com I did a search for a show that was on this Sunday, June 28, 2009, concerning the "Black Sunday Blizzard of '35" that blew millions of tons of topsoil through the high plains and heartlands.

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NOAA Climate Prediction Center forecasts

www.cdc.noaa.gov -- "The most recent U.S. government (CPC) temperature forecast for June 2009 shows a tilt of the odds towards warmer temperatures that covers all of our area of interest, the Interior Southwest. This portion of the forecast matches both long-term trends and lingering La Ni?a impacts, even though the latter is discounted as an influence due to its rapid weakening this spring.

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1848 US Map of North America

We found this Great 1848 US Map over at www.davidrumsey.com. It states that it is a "Third edition, first being 1846 (according to Ristow, although Karrow only lists an 1847). Texas is still in large configuration with a panhandle running up to Oregon. California and the Great Basin are shown only as Upper or New California.

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Insight Into Grandma

In a few of the letters that I have read, John asks Constance about Grace and Essie. I just happen to have a photo of those three young ladies, Essie Nall, Grace Brooks and Constance Warwick, when they were young girls growing up in the Northwestern part of Oklahoma Territory. That is the photo you are viewing on the left.

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WWII - POW CAMPS IN OKLAHOMA

There were a few artists & sculptors among the POWs in the Alva Camp that used their artistic talents to pass the days until the end of the war. They made their own paint, created pictures and sculptures of medieval castles and other memories back home in Germany.

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The Duration of WWI

Behind Fences In Oklahoma Across the sun-baked plains of Oklahoma in the west and the tree covered, misty mountains in the east, nothing remains to show a part Oklahoma played during World War II. The pre-existing buildings that were used, show no evidence of the part they played in the past. The sites that were built now are covered by businesses, farms, and ranches.

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July 4th, 1928 Boys Drill Team

It was the 4th July 1928 when these young Northwest Oklahoma Boys Drill Team posed on the northwest corner of Alva, Oklahoma's downtown square, at the intersection of Flynn and College Avenue. The boys drill team is facing northwest as we look southeast across the downtown square.

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Looking Back ... '99 Reflections

It was in Issue 39, Vol. 1, 18 December 1999, Saturday, that we dug these 1999 reflections out of our archives. These reflections are not in our OkieLegacy database, so we are going back to Volumes 1 & 2 to incorporate those interesting items in our "Looking Back..." series.

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Remembering the Alva Greenhouse

This Photo was scanned from a Postcard of my Grandmother's. I am not sure of the date. On the back of the card where the stamp goes it reads: "Place Postage Stamp Here - Domestic and Canada One Cent - Foreign Two Cents."

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Castles of NW Oklahoma

A Pioneer Prairie of Dreams is what pioneers were filled with as they made their way westward into Oklahoma & Indian Territory ... "If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it." -- William Arthur Ward. Another saying I like is, "If you build your prairie of dreams (your Castle on the Hill), they will come!"

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Air Castles & Dreamers

This NW Okie comes from a long line of dreamers with roots in Oklahoma. My grandmother, Constance Estella Warwick McGill, wrote in letters from a friend, John C. McClure, of the places she wanted to go and see when she was younger in the early 1900s. John accused Constance of building "air castles."

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Harvesters & Prairie Skyscrapers

What are Prairie Skyscrapers? Up in Kansas they are referred to as Prairie Skyscrapers (a.k.a. grain elevators). In most areas of the Heartland, you can see at least one elevator off in the distance. Every town has at least one and, in some cases, the elevator is still standing (and may even still be used) even if the town has been abandoned.

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Singspiration Returns To Perry OK

Roy says, "SINGSPIRATION began as an all-night gospel and patriotic 'sing-along' session to honor our troops in the 'Gulf War' back in 1994, and was a brain-child of our (then) postmaster, Darryl Bullock. It brought together soloists and singing groups from all over Oklahoma to perform at the grandstand in the park that surrounds the Noble County Courthouse.

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Castle Butte, AZ

Marvin Henry says, "My guide to Indian Country map, there is a Castle Butte, elev 5460 feet, located just northeast of Tuba City.

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Triple Digit Temperatures ... Summer Is Here!

Roy says, " Our summertime weather has arrived. 104 degrees yesterday and predicted again today. Global warming? Nope. This is normal for Perry, Ok. (but perhaps a few days earlier than usual).

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