WEDNESDAY AT WWA
Kathy drove me from Halsell Hill Tuesday to Oklahoma City for the annual Western Writers of America meeting. We left about noon and stopped at Marlene's in Graham for lunch. It is located on the square at an ice cream parlor and was a great lunch. We got to the newcomers reception and heard the stories of the new members. Most of them are retirees who want to publish their first novels, but there were a few younger people also. Then we went to the reception and visited with old and new friends. Lori B. Garrison from Utopia is here and trying to sell her memoir of her life and her family. We really enjoyed talking to Mike Powell the lawyer who is a retired magistrate in Alexandria, VA. He was talking about serving as technical advisor on a movie called HIGH CRIMES where Morgan Freeman played Mike's role in one of the JAG cases that was written as a screen play. Mike is famous at WWA for his book collecting. He has read most western written and seen all of the films. He has served as an advisor to Hollywood on JAG films. Judge Advocate General. He served as a Marine helicopter pilot and JAG both in the Orient and Europe.
He is a conservative and his wife is a liberal who works for the Kennedy Foundation for world peace or something like that. We have known him for years at WWA. He was familiar with Lou's books and was always giving us books that he had liked. He always shops every second-hand bookstore where ever we meet.
Today we had a panel on Libraries for research and the Cross Plains Library would stack up with the big ones. The room was cold and I didn't bring a jacket, so I jumped in the car, ran over to Walmart and bought a $3 sweater on sale and got warm in the meeting. We drove around and found a local diner for lunch. We then boarded buses to tour the Express Ranch. The founder, Bob Funk, made his fortune from Express Employment Professionals, a Mary Kay type of operation scattered all over the world with 360000 people involved. He has ranches around Oklahoma and in New Mexico and has an artificial insemination program to raise thousands of cattle. For fun he has Clydesdales that he enters in competition along with a zebra, minature horses and other fun things.
We got back on the bus and went to Guthrie, the first state capitol of Oklahoma for a trolley bus tour driven by a historian, a meal at the Victorian Tea Room and then a walking tour of the pharmacy arboretum where we found out that all of the plants on Halsell Hill could be used to treat something. Even Red Bud trees. We then got a walking tour of the old saloon and brothel area with an explanation of girls being chained in their rooms to keep them from running away or jumping out of their second story windows.
We didn't walk all that much but I am worn out tonight.
Kathy drove me from Halsell Hill Tuesday to Oklahoma City for the annual Western Writers of America meeting. We left about noon and stopped at Marlene's in Graham for lunch. It is located on the square at an ice cream parlor and was a great lunch. We got to the newcomers reception and heard the stories of the new members. Most of them are retirees who want to publish their first novels, but there were a few younger people also. Then we went to the reception and visited with old and new friends. Lori B. Garrison from Utopia is here and trying to sell her memoir of her life and her family. We really enjoyed talking to Mike Powell the lawyer who is a retired magistrate in Alexandria, VA. He was talking about serving as technical advisor on a movie called HIGH CRIMES where Morgan Freeman played Mike's role in one of the JAG cases that was written as a screen play. Mike is famous at WWA for his book collecting. He has read most western written and seen all of the films. He has served as an advisor to Hollywood on JAG films. Judge Advocate General. He served as a Marine helicopter pilot and JAG both in the Orient and Europe.
He is a conservative and his wife is a liberal who works for the Kennedy Foundation for world peace or something like that. We have known him for years at WWA. He was familiar with Lou's books and was always giving us books that he had liked. He always shops every second-hand bookstore where ever we meet.
Today we had a panel on Libraries for research and the Cross Plains Library would stack up with the big ones. The room was cold and I didn't bring a jacket, so I jumped in the car, ran over to Walmart and bought a $3 sweater on sale and got warm in the meeting. We drove around and found a local diner for lunch. We then boarded buses to tour the Express Ranch. The founder, Bob Funk, made his fortune from Express Employment Professionals, a Mary Kay type of operation scattered all over the world with 360000 people involved. He has ranches around Oklahoma and in New Mexico and has an artificial insemination program to raise thousands of cattle. For fun he has Clydesdales that he enters in competition along with a zebra, minature horses and other fun things.
We got back on the bus and went to Guthrie, the first state capitol of Oklahoma for a trolley bus tour driven by a historian, a meal at the Victorian Tea Room and then a walking tour of the pharmacy arboretum where we found out that all of the plants on Halsell Hill could be used to treat something. Even Red Bud trees. We then got a walking tour of the old saloon and brothel area with an explanation of girls being chained in their rooms to keep them from running away or jumping out of their second story windows.
We didn't walk all that much but I am worn out tonight.
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