Memories Of Rebecca Davis Beck
This week’s Indian Pioneer Paper was recorded by W.P.A. fieldwriter Maurice Anderson on April 27, 1938.
This week’s Indian Pioneer Paper was recorded by W.P.A. fieldwriter Maurice Anderson on April 27, 1938.
When I rely too heavily on one news source too long, I tend to see everything in life through my Cable News Goggles, and it’s terrifying! Regardless of which “lens” I choose, I walk away wondering if I need to build a bunker. Sometimes, so I can pretentiously claim to be unbiased, I flip back-and-forth between opposing news sources. This only makes things worse, and I am absolutely certain that I need a bunker, but that’s tricky in Oklahoma. How do you build a good bunker that simultaneously protects against climate change and the impending takeover of the CPC in a place with porous clay soils beneath and tornadoes above?
This week we have the Indian Pioneer Paper of John Carlton. This oral history was recorded by W.P.A. fieldworker Maurice Anderson on September 1, 1937 at Mr. Carlton’s residence in Pauls Valley, OK.
Famously displayed on the desk of former President Harry S. Truman and often used by President Joe Biden both in office and on the campaign trail is the motto “The Buck Stops Here,” meant to exemplify one of the most important attributes that leaders at all levels need to possess: accountability. Nowhere is this more important, and currently lacking, than in the Office of the President of the United States as President Biden refuses to accept any responsibility for the ongoing 40-year high inflation, including the dramatic increase in prices at the gas pump.
Oklahoma will be celebrating Arbor Week March 20-26. While the rest of the country celebrates National Arbor Day in late April, Oklahoma pays homage to trees the last full week of March because it is the perfect time to get new trees in the ground.
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