Friday, August 7, 2015
9. Freedom From Prejudice
As C_C_T noted in his last comment, The Simpsons, especially the three ladies were feeling high, ecstatic from their feeling of freedom from the prejudice that they had lived with in Missouri for the last twenty years. Dora and Ollie had never felt that freedom from the shame they had felt from...
Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, August 6, 2015
8. A Bit Of Excitement
McAlester, Oklahoma was a lively town in 1899. It was a busy town, active, welcoming, friendly, helpful, and the largest town in the Choctaw Nation, one of the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma Indian Territory. When the Simpson family pulled their wagon train into McAlester, they intended a few...
Sign in to see full entry.
Interrupted
I was on a roll with writing about my Oklahoma family until today. I got interrupted both mentally and physically with an appointment with my doctor. It takes everything fun out of me just because I dread it so because I am notorious there for being the one that never shows up for her appointments....
Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
7. On The Way
The year was 1899. This is where the tale becomes more personal to me, not because I was there, but the story was often told to me first hand, and I loved that. Ollie Mae, the youngest child of the half-breed Menominee Indian was my grandma. We would sit on her porch swing in Muskogee, OK when I was...
Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, August 3, 2015
6. The Confrontation
"I love to watch how the day, tired as it is, lags away reluctantly, and hates to be called yesterday so soon." ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne House of the Seven Gables 1851 Mary Wyrick Simpson thought her Grandmother Etter was exaggerating when she said, "Don't ever come here again. You are dead to us." A...
Sign in to see full entry.