A few memories.

Poststructural Pub
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I’d like to share with you a picture of my grandmother,
taken earlier this year, before she passed away.
http://img400.imageshack.us/img400/6668/gmother8ij.jpg

This next picture is of the historic Ft. Gibson site, which
is not far from here. It served as a military base during
what is called the American Civil War.
http://img400.imageshack.us/img400/7154/gibson7uz.jpg

This next picture was taken recently by my father, on
his travels, and is the site of the Oklahoma Land Runs.
http://img400.imageshack.us/img400/9697/landrun8ba.jpg

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I can’t quite make out what it says on the two signs. Any chance you could post the text?

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This should be easier to read:

The Land Runs are where the University of Oklahoma gets
its nickname Sooners. A Sooner was someone who cheated
on the Land Run by staking a claim ahead of time. There was a
movie about the Land Run… I think it was Far And Away.

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What a lovely lady your Grandmother was, Walden. She looks happy among the flowers.

Judy

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I had forgotten all about those land run things. I remember seeing some drawings of them in our textbook in school. I can’t remember why they did them though, instead of just having people sign up for a piece of land in an office.

Your grandmother does look very lovely among the rhododendrons (I think they are).

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Thank you for sharing your memories Walden, I’m especially happy to see the two plaques commerating the land rushes. I don’t know which one it was that my great grandfather particapted in but it was one of them.

MarkB

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That was the 2005 Azalea Festival at Honor Heights in Muskogee.

I’m not sure why they went about it in that manner, either, but it
was part of a postwar effort to populate uninhabited Cherokee
lands with Anglo-American settlers.