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NO. 45: APRIL 2018

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Annual Wordfest provides lots of fun

The Fourth AnnualLGAA Founder’s Day ArtShow on May 12 will be inthe new office on MainStreet. Designs for a newpocket park behind the of-fice are currently beingtaken. Entries will be dis-played outside where thepark is going to be.

People may paint rocksto include in the park dur-ing Founder’s Day.

The “Abandoned LG”exhibit by Becca Adamsand the “Where I’m From”

Founder’s Day plans offer varietythese buildings repaired orimproved or sold to some-one who will repair themand perhaps even bringthem back to life in somenew form.

One such building is theabandoned nursing homeon Wyandotte Street.

“I can’t remember whichhigh school class it was, butwe adopted someone fromthe nursing home andwould walk from theschool to go visit them dur-ing that class. We would

poems by high school artstudents will be displayedinside the LGAA office.The public can vote for afavorite poem.

Adams is taking andposting photos toFacebook and the website:lgArtsAlliance.com withcommentary about aban-doned buildings in LocustGrove. The photographsare artistic and the com-mentary is interesting andwitty. The hope of the artsalliance would be to see

play games and paint finger-nails. I remember singingsongs in the foyer to themand caroling there with ourchurch. I remember an oldman that everyone calledSheriff. He would alwayswear a badge,” Adams re-calls.

Other historical artifactswill be on display. Thosewho have items they wouldlike to have exhibited aboutLG’s history, should con-tact show coordinator

Celebration to include pocket park plans, exhibit, art show, more


Renown Oklahoma poetMorris McCorvey will bethe keynote speaker to enda day of activities to cel-ebrate the Wonder CityCoffee’s Second AnnualWordfest April 14.

The festival replaced theannual ROMPfest, pro-duced by the Rural Okla-homa Museum of Poetry(ROMP), that began in2013. All activities will takeplace at Wonder City Cof-fee on Main Street.

The festival will feature

MORRIS MCCORVEYa full day of celebrating thepower of words ineveryone’s life, with an em-phasis on poetry, storiesand books, along with a funand delicious pastry com-

petition.The day’s activities in-

clude a number of interac-tive writing, speaking andart activities, where peopleof all ages and back-grounds can enjoy word-play, community and fam-ily. Events begin at 9 a.m.and continue until 3 p.m.

Guest speakerMcCorvey, Bartlesville, di-rector of the WestsideCommunity Center, is alsoa poet, actor, director andmusician. He will talk

about the place of poetry ineveryone’s life and will readsome of his poetry, begin-ning at 1:30 p.m.

The popular Pastry andPoetry Competition will runfrom 11 a.m. until 12:30p.m. when 10 pastry mak-ers will vie for the title ofPastry Champion. A judgewill choose the overall win-ner, and a People’s Choicewill also be awarded.

In addition, a cash prizewill be given for the best

High School Art Showphotos. . . Page 11. Shownis detail from GracieSanford’s “Heartbreak.”

What’s Happening in LG April 2018

LOOKING BACK

THROW BACK APRIL . . This was Locust Grove HighSchool’s basketball team in 1926. John Cavalier holds theball in the front row, and Lawrence Gore is on the left inthe back row. No other members of the team are idenfitied.If anyone knows the identity of any of the other four peoplepictured, please contact Betty Perkins online [email protected] or by calling 918-479-5617.

Roxann Yates.“Where I’m From” po-

etry by high school art stu-dents will be on display.First and second place win-ners will be chosen, and aPeople’s Choice award willbe voted on by the publicon Founder’s Day.

The “Where I’m From”movement began in 1993with a poem written byGeorge Ella Lyon. Herpoem and website is atgeorgeellalyon.com. An ac-tive website created to en-courage tolerance and self-expression is atiamfromproject.com.

The creative writingprompt has traveled aroundthe world to schools, fam-ily reunions, prisons, refu-gee camps and more.

High school studentswill also have pocket parkdesigns on display at theLGAA office. One will bechosen to design the park

behind the office.At the VFW, where the

LGAA traditionally spon-sors an art show, LGHS artteacher Shaney O’Dell andher students will present anart show and sale.

A representative fromthe school will be on handif anyone wishes to pur-chases any of the art pieces.

Also, Pam Quantie willbe coordinating various artactivities there, as well asassigning booth space forlocal artists. Contact her toreserve space.

Contact Quantie aboutthis show in the VFW [email protected] by phone: 918-625-9569.

More details about ac-tivities on Founder’s Daywill soon be posted to ourwebsite and Facebookpage. Contact RoxannYates [email protected] more details.

–Founder’s Day–

EDITOR’S NOTE: While this newsletter is producedby the LGAA and will contain that organization’s news, wealso want to publish information about any activities in Lo-cust Grove that our community might be interested in.

If you have news on LG events, places, or people, orwant to place an ad in the newsletter, please contact BettyPerkins at [email protected] or 918-479-5617 (leavea message if no answer). The newsletter can also be viewedat lgartsalliance.com. As LGAA is a nonprofit organizationand the newsletter is provided free to everyone, advertisingmust support the publication of this newsletter. Your sup-port is greatly appreciated.

About What’s Happening in LGThe First United Methodist Church of Locust Grove

has a list of events planned between now and PentecostSunday, May 20.

A four-week Grief Group will begin meeting on Mon-day, April 9 at 6:30 at the church.

Native American Sunday will be held April 15.Camp Sunday with a fundraiser lunch following wor-

ship will be held April 22The Methodist Men group meets every second Satur-

day at 8 a.m. for breakfast and fellowship. They are plan-ning many activities for the spring. The United Method-ist Women will have a short meeting on April 14 and goto Inola for a Cluster Meeting May 6.

First United Methodist list events

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The Locust Grove Pub-lic Library is celebrating theyoungest members of ourcommunity as part of theWeek of the Young Child,April 16-20.

According to the Na-tional Association for theEducation of Young Chil-dren (NAEYC), the pur-pose of the Week of theYoung Child is to focuspublic attention on theneeds of young childrenand their families.

The NAEYC encour-ages families to celebratewith daily themes like Mu-sic Monday and Work To-gether Wednesday. The li-brary will have a special

Artsy Thursday for ourstorytime kids on the 19th.

Every year the PublicService Company of Okla-homa shows their supportfor the library and the Weekof the Young Child by do-nating books. We appreci-ate their donation of 7 newchildren’s books and sev-eral new learning toys toour children’s area.

Additionally, we haveadded all of the books thatearned the 2018 Oklahoma

Redbud Read-AloudAward. There are 16 total.We have personally readevery one and they are fan-tastic.

Also, Summer Readingis just around the corner.Our theme this year is mu-sic. Sign ups will start in

May. The library will havea table in the VFW duringFounder’s Day with thingsfor the kids to make andtake. Everyone who signsup for Summer Readingduring Founder’s Day willget a special prize, so besure and stop by.--Marea Breedlove, librarian

LIBRARY CRAFT. . . Nathan and Corbin Hayes work ona project at the Locust Grove Public Library.

PSO Grant. . . Some of thebooks bought through agrant from PSO are shownin the two pictures above.

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Slowly and surely, myfriend group has grown. Iknow enough people towave and smile at least oncewhenever I step outside ofmy dorm room. On Fridaynight, after a long week ofstudying for midterms andtearing my brain apart, oneof my friends pulled me outof my depressing week tothe monthly art crawl onNorman’s main street.

My shiny new friend is atiny girl from Tulsa, she stilllistens to early 2000 punkmusic and works at a cof-fee shop. This is where wefirst bonded, because I cannever shut up about myeternal love for WonderCity Coffee Shop. Herworkplace is great, but it’snot Wonder City.

What I believed to be anart crawl was an art trek ofwhat felt like two miles allthe way around. Which isn’tmuch, but when one crossesthe path of ten identicalstreet guitarist playing an-

By Sydney Schwichtenberg

Freshmanat OU


other Coldplay song, theroad gets long.

Norman, much to mysurprise, is an art town.Norman’s mainstreet is aweird pocket of creativitythat is bursting at its seams.Every other building is asmall museum of art, wheremen wear oxfords insteadof tennis shoes and womendrink free wine sampleswhile staring at abstractlandscapes.

Boutiques open late sellheadbands for twenty dol-lars, and employees burnholes into the backs ofheads as one customerslook through jewelry.

Tattoo shops were open,and inside, galleries of arthung on walls. My favorite

painting was an ab-stract remake of the‘Rape of Prosperina’by Bernini. If you’renot familiar with thepiece, it’s a 17th cen-tury marble statue ofHades andPersephone.

Another gallery hid at thevery end of the street on thesecond floor of an old build-ing. The stairs dipped andcreaked in protest when Iwalked up. Inside, the origi-nal wooden floors werepainted grey. The paintpeeled where peoplewalked the most, like awell-trodden forest path.

The floor plancame from an oldhouse. People oncelived on the secondfloor, but now, lifehad been strippedaway and, instead,artists rented rooms

to showcase their art.In one room, a man ob-

sessively painted daintybirds with red beady eyeson golden flake back-grounds.

In another, an artistshowcased countless paint-ings with men and womendramatically embracing oneanother like they belonged

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on the cover of Gone Withthe Wind.

My favorite gallery in thehouse was the first one tothe right, which I left forlast. Inside, a blonde girlwith choppy bangssketched a picture of a na-ked woman holding aphone in her hand and pos-ing for a selfie. On thewalls, countless self-por-traits of the blonde artistwere nailed up to the wall.Different hairstyles were

the only way to show atimeline in her paintings, todecipher which ones cameearlier. In oil painting, shewas birdlike, naked andtrapped inside of blues andyellows. In real life, shewore a simple pair of jeansand a cardigan.

Out of all the things Ihave done in Norman forthe past eight months, Ithink the art crawl will bemy favorite. Norman isn’tjust a college town, it’s alsoa creative town.

–Freshman at OU–

Recently, the Rabbit-in-Hat Magic Shop in LocustGrove sponsored NSU Freshman, Bradley Fields, andLocust Grove High School Freshman, Canton Little, onan all expense paid trip to the 47th annual “Eureka SpringsCavalcade of Magic” as representatives of both the MagicShop and as citizens of the State of Oklahoma.

The annual Eureka Springs, Arkansas convention,hosted by the International Brotherhood of Magiciansof the State of Arkansas was attended by professionalssuch as Tom Burgoon who has entertained at inauguralballs for two United States Presidents, including a pri-vate event for actor Steve Martin, Duane Laflin whoheadlines in Branson Missouri, and Terry Magelssen whois a corporate entertainer for CBS Television and FordMotor Company.

The Cavalcade Organizational Committee, along withthe manager for the Duane Laflin show, made severalremarks as to how Bradley and Canton raised the bar foryoung attendees . . . specifically noting how the juniorMagicians of the Rabbit-in-Hat Magic Shop exhibited“exemplary deportment and professional style as ambas-sadors of Magic & Goodwill!”

“I found the convention to be an excellent opportu-nity to learn and meet the professionals to get advice,”said Little about the trip. He also said thanks to Clarkand Marcia May, owners of the local magic shop for theopportunity they provided. Fields also added his thanks.

“I’m really thankful for the opportunity to representyou,” Fields said. “You are a blessing in my life and wordscan’t justify how appreciative I am.”

ROYAL AMBASSADORS. . . Canton Little, left, and Brad-ley Fields, representing the Rabbit-in-the-Hat Magic Shopattended at a recent conference in Arkansas.

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ITALIAN STUDENTS PAINT. . . The Pryor Arts and Hu-manities Council hosted a group of 20 high school studentsfrom Italy where the students painted ceiling tiles for thelocal art gallery and cultural center. The group was able tovisit a number of cultural sites in Oklahoma on their stay inthe state, including trips to the Capitol, Oklahoma Univer-sity, the Cherokee Village in Tahlequah, the Crystal BridgesMuseum in Bentonville, Ark. and the Tallgrass PrairieReserve near Pawhuska. Samples of the tiles printed by thestudents from Italy are shown above and below. They paintedgenerally typical Italian scenes.

poem written about one of the pastries.From 9:30-10:30 a.m. stories and poetry games will

be featured. All ages.All-day events include an open day at the Rural Okla-

homa Museum of Poetry, and a book fair from 10 a.m. -3 p.m. with local authors and their books available in thebook room at Wonder City Coffee. The museum is lo-cated on Road 438, two miles west of the high schooland then one-half mile north on 438. The exhibit at themuseum is themed “Mystery,” and an annex to the mu-seum is now located in the bathroom (yes, the bathroom)of the ROMP Rummage Store on Main Street. It’s quitean experience. Come see.

Shaun Perkins, director of ROMP, will also be writingher “Poems in a Minute” for anyone who wants a specialpoem. As she’ll be directing all of the events of the day,this might be a catch-as-catch-can, or leave three specialwords and pick up the poem later.

For more information: [email protected].

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NEW EXHIBIT OPENS . . . To celebrate the opening of anew exhibit at the LGAA Art Gallery, a contest was heldwith costumed characters from mystery books. The exhibitfeatures a mystery novel written in poetry form by ShaunPerkins and will run through mid-May. People are invitedto view the interactive exhibit during regular office hoursor by going by the Wonder City Coffee Shop to be allowedinto the venue. Above are Jerry Yates and Mason Duck asSherlock, and at left are Chelsea Elliott and Karyn Palmer.


By Wanda KeyIn the early 1940s, my

Mom, older brother,younger sister, and I livedwith my grandparents in asmall town.

It was a difficult time fora single mom with threechildren to support. Sheworked but didn’t makemuch money.

One day my great unclecame for a visit. He toldMom he needed someoneto help him with his honeybees. We would have ahouse and a salary. Wemoved into a new life southof Locust Grove.

The house set at the bot-tom of a little hill which wascleared off and about 30bee hives were set on it.

We had a well with apump not far from thehouse. We didn’t have any

Life in the 1940s often proved difficultBeekeepers were valuable resource during World War II


indoor plumbing or elec-tricity. My great uncle livedon Spring Creek and had 40bee hives there.

First, let me tell youabout the bee colony. Thehive has two or three su-pers that hold the frameswhere the bees makehoney. Each super has 8frames.

It was late summer whenwe moved, but keepingbees is a year-round job. Inthe winter, the bees and thehives have to be tended to.

The bees must be fed withsugar water because thereis no nectar for them togather.

Ants and mice can getinto the hives, and they candestroy the bees. The bee-keeper must be constantlyvigil to keep these verminfrom the hive.

Beekeeping was ex-tremely important at thistime in the United States.We had just entered WorldWar II, and the governmentwanted all the honey andbeeswax they could get, soit was important to tend thebees summer and winter.

Beeswax was used in somany ways, including tocoat airplanes, drills, shellsand cables.

On certain occasions,beekeepers were deferredfrom military service to

keep up production ofhoney and wax for the wareffort.

The queen bee lives twoto four years and is aboutone-inch long. The drone istwice as large as the queenand has a short life. His en-tire job is to take care ofthe queen.

The worker bee is tiny,only about ½ inch long, andhe has a short life, aboutfive weeks. He gathers thenectar from the flowers andhas a gland on his abdomenthat makes wax to createthe honeycomb.

He also guards the beehive in late spring and earlysummer.

The queen bee and theworker bee are the onlyones with stingers. In latespring, we could step out-


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–Beekeepers–side and hear a constantbuzz. I was the worker beesfanning the water from thehoney comb.

We attended Lone StarSchool. I was in the secondgrade and my brother wasin the seventh. My sisterwas too young to remem-ber very much. She was socut and sweet (still is) andfollowed me everywhere.We had a pet chicken namedBetty Lou.

When mid-summer ar-rived, it was time to rob thebee hives.

Mom would set up akitchen area under a bigshade tree. The cook stovewas brought outside. Aframe of honey was un-capped with a sharp knife.The frames were placed ina spinner, and we spun it byhand and drained the honeyout into the quart and pintjars.

Sometimes a frame ofhoney would have “BeeBread” in it, and it wouldbe left for the bees to eatduring the winter. Bee

Bread was a mixture of beesaliva, plant pollen and nec-tar, and was made by theworker bees.

All the bee’s wax wasmelted to be sold to thegovernment. It was stackedin the yard. Once we no-ticed big chunks were miss-ing from the wax. It didn’ttake long to discover theculprit was our old hounddog “Bingo.”

The beeswax was thenmoved to the smokehouseover the cellar for safekeeping. That cellar pro-tected us when the tornadodestroyed Pryor.

Deciding to go to thecellar in those days wasdetermined by watching thedark clouds. No weatheralerts existed in those days.

My mom was special.She worked hard, and wealways felt loved and safe.The 1940s were hard times,but we worked hard in anyway we could to help sup-port the war effort and themen and women who werefighting for our country andour freedoms.

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Scenes from LGHS Cultural FestivalDepartments of art, music and drama combine for show

The Night of the Arts atLocust Grove High Schoolincluded an art show, a pre-sentation by drama stu-dents, and a performanceby the band, all of whichwere well received by thegood crowd. The dramawas directed by SherryMills, English and dramateacher. The art show waspresented through thework of art teacher ShaneyO’Dell and her students.The band performance wasunder the direction of Ja-son Marshall. The newchoir director was also in-troduced: Eric Yoder, be-low.

ARTWORK. . Some samplesof student artwork is dis-played on this page and Page11. The students displayed alarge variety of talents intheir artwork, from the mon-ster scratch art andbasketweaving project onPage 11, and the pencil andcharcoal drawings featuredon both pages. We regret nothaving the names of all stu-dents.


ART FESTIVAL . . . Art teacher Shaney O’Dell is shownwith one of the presentation panels she built to display herstudents’ large display of artwork. The art festival cameafter a “week of the arts” in her classroom when local art-ists came to talk about writing, photography, poetry, andbasketweaving.

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