Volume 12 , Issue 2

Duchess & Sadie Sleepy Domain

The second week of the New Year 2010 finds us publishing our 2nd issue of The OkieLegacy eZine this evening in SW Colorado. Our temperatures reached 48F in the valley North of Bayfield. It is suppose to be warmer Tuesday around here.

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Frostin' Freezin' Oklahoma

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Aldridge Family Inquiry In NW Oklahoma

Paulita Aldridge Hayes is looking for more history about her grandparents, Jesse and Floris Patterson Aldridge of Alva, Oklahoma [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Kemper Military Academy Memories

K. Racette (email: diamondfire1947@yahoo.com) says, "My cousin, the late Edward S. May, son of the late Stanley & Louise May of Alva, Oklahoma, also attended Kemper Military Academy ? somewhere between 1937-1939. He was also a graduate of Alva High School, but I'm not positive about the year ? somewhere in this time frame. His sister, the late Jean (May) Garvin told me she thought he attended Kemper about 1939.

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New Oklahoma State Song ? NOT!

Marvin says, "For all my relatives and friends in Oklahoma and those with an Okie connection. Oklahoma is changing the words to the State Song. It now goes like this:

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Photo Wanted: Avard Frisco Depot

Sandie Olson says, "Hi Linda - Please ask your readers where one might find a photo of the Frisco depot in Avard [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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John Jacob & Mary Jane Vance Warwick Sketches

Shirley in Richmond, VA says, "We also have a copy of the portrait likenesses that the lady from California shared with you. My Mother remembered the original pen and ink drawings being given as a parting gift to.

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Henry Clay Paris - Son of Arthur Henry Paris

Jennisue Ostermeier says, "My name is Jennisue Ostermeier and I am the grandaughter of Henry Clay Paris, son of Arthur Henry Paris, Son of Henry Clay Paris, Sr..

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2010 Waynoka Historical Society Calendars

Have you gotten your 2010 calendar yet? If NOT ? Then you need this collectors item - the Waynoka 2010 Collectors Calendar Honors 100 Years for Santa Fe Depot, Harvey House.

It was 100 years ago, in 1909, that Waynoka witnessed the construction and opening of the Santa Fe Depot and the adjacent Harvey House. The 2010 Waynoka Historical Society Collectors Calendar is dedicated to to the special anniversary of the buildings. The colorful cover features nine photographs of the beautifully restored structures and their Spanish mission architecture.

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Avard, OK Info

We did a search back through The OkieLegacy archives and found the following information in Vol. VI, Iss. 43 concerning Avard, Oklahoma:

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History of Avard, OK

On the Avard Folk Festival you can find some more history of the little town of Avard in Woods County, in Northwest Oklahoma. Such as:

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