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<v Speaker 1>Good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome, welcome, welcome. It

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<v Speaker 1>is time now for our community connection. And we've got

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<v Speaker 1>one of the best storytellers I know, Joe Sears, is

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<v Speaker 1>here from the Dewey Hotel.

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<v Speaker 2>How you doing, Joe, Hey, good morning. I'm enjoying this nice,

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<v Speaker 2>cool morning.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, we got a few days of that before, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>we go back to about the two degrees short of

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<v Speaker 1>cremation again.

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<v Speaker 3>We've had a good summer.

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<v Speaker 1>We have for the most part.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and we didn't have that sizzling horrible heat that

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<v Speaker 2>we had last year.

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<v Speaker 1>More water than we normally get, good.

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<v Speaker 2>A lot more water, and I haven't turned on my

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<v Speaker 2>sprinkler system at my house.

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<v Speaker 3>It's been very nice. Everything nice and green.

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<v Speaker 2>When I returned to this country ten years ago because

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<v Speaker 2>I got I left when I was nineteen, Yeah, yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>went out and saw the world work and came back

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<v Speaker 2>home because of my health. Not ten years ago, it

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<v Speaker 2>was being all that really heavy drought. Everything was brown.

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<v Speaker 2>I wasn't used to see in my beautiful Oklahoma brown

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<v Speaker 2>in the summertime. And the old sage especially with all

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<v Speaker 2>their wonderful grass and the blue stem, and to see

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<v Speaker 2>it's so green, the way it's supposed to be green,

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<v Speaker 2>green country.

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<v Speaker 3>I enjoy that.

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<v Speaker 2>The Old Sage is really I think the prettiest part

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<v Speaker 2>of Oklahoma ever. It's just this, and so I like

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<v Speaker 2>living here among it, and I'm real happy to have

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<v Speaker 2>all that green.

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<v Speaker 3>Green is a healing color.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm an artist, a painter, and we learn certain things

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<v Speaker 2>about color in school and sure, and then there was

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<v Speaker 2>a book back in the seventies about color and all

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<v Speaker 2>it means. Green is actually a very You can wear

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<v Speaker 2>the color of green and it makes you feel better.

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<v Speaker 1>You don't get pitched on Saint Patty's Day.

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<v Speaker 3>No, you know.

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<v Speaker 2>I used to say, well, I'm a rage you go ah,

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<v Speaker 2>ain't good enough? You better have some green on. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>but it's it's nice to have green around. It's just

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<v Speaker 2>a healthy feeling. And speaking of health, I'm here to

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<v Speaker 2>talk about the Sandlot, our movie coming up Saturday.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh yes, indeed, we've got the Family Movie returning our.

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<v Speaker 2>Family Film Festival. And we started that a couple of

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<v Speaker 2>years ago.

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<v Speaker 3>Tom.

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<v Speaker 2>It's funny, we thought we were very clever. Well, come

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<v Speaker 2>to find out, museums all across the nation are doing films,

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<v Speaker 2>so it's not unique just at the Dewey Hotel. We

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<v Speaker 2>were just behind and didn't know about it, but it

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<v Speaker 2>sure fits like a glove.

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<v Speaker 1>It does.

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<v Speaker 3>And we have a nice big screen that's inflatable. We

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<v Speaker 3>just bought one.

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<v Speaker 2>It blows up like one of those bouncy things you

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<v Speaker 2>can get for birthday parties. It's a big screen and

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<v Speaker 2>it's like going to the Bowman twin drive in.

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<v Speaker 1>So wait, this is an inflatable screen.

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<v Speaker 3>It is an inflatable screen.

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<v Speaker 1>So instead of seeing it in Imax, we're watching it

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<v Speaker 1>the air Max.

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<v Speaker 2>Airmax and it's really really nice and it's nice and clear.

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<v Speaker 2>So we had this big, beautiful screen that we put

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<v Speaker 2>out on the north side of the house and of

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<v Speaker 2>the hotel, and we provide the seed. We have a

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<v Speaker 2>concession stand of you know, all we don't have is lollipops.

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<v Speaker 2>And I sticked.

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<v Speaker 1>To the bottom of the shoe after a while. Yeah, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>how that goes to Family Films and.

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<v Speaker 3>The old Aral Theater downtown. I grew up with that.

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<v Speaker 3>That was built originally in Martlesville as a vaudeville house.

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<v Speaker 1>Imagine who was Yea?

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<v Speaker 2>And Ruby Darby performed there and she was quite controversial.

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<v Speaker 3>And she the legend is that Ruby Darby. Uh every

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<v Speaker 3>she was.

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<v Speaker 2>Very popular vaudeville performer. She was Queen of the oil fields,

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<v Speaker 2>a colt her and all of the men and women,

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, it was a to do things to go

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<v Speaker 2>watch her perform the burlesque. But church growers, churchgoers did

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<v Speaker 2>not like Ruby Darby and her bodiness. But anyway, it

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<v Speaker 2>was still acceptable until there was a Fourth of July

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<v Speaker 2>parade and she rode down the street as an event

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<v Speaker 2>as Lady Godiva. Oh and all she had on was

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<v Speaker 2>a big wig from Europe, and that was the final straw,

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<v Speaker 2>and the church ladies at Bartlesville said you gotta go.

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<v Speaker 2>And overnight at the Aero Theater, the men stopped going

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<v Speaker 2>and business really dropped after that, and so she had

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<v Speaker 2>to leave town.

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<v Speaker 3>But what a legend you know of the Errol Theater.

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<v Speaker 2>Now, all that was gone by the time I was born,

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<v Speaker 2>but I remember the Beatles appeared there, and that's the

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<v Speaker 2>first time I saw people lined up for a movie.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh the Hard Days Nights, Hard Days Night. The Beatles

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<v Speaker 1>played bartles But.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, uh yeah, so the Aero Theater locally, But anyway,

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<v Speaker 2>back to the our theater, we have a nice Don

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<v Speaker 2>Tyler slab between our hotel and the hitching post, and

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<v Speaker 2>we call that the slab Theater and we put on

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<v Speaker 2>all kinds of activities, but that's where we show our movies.

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<v Speaker 2>And in the fall and winter time, we have big

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<v Speaker 2>heaters that we can bring out and it's like outdoors

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<v Speaker 2>seating at a cafe. We can actually heat the audience

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<v Speaker 2>and watch a film. So it's our film series has

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<v Speaker 2>come in and we make sure it's always a family

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<v Speaker 2>film and we've been very successful with it. We've had

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<v Speaker 2>to cancel a few times because of the weather. But

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<v Speaker 2>The Sandlot is a classic made nineteen ninety three in

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<v Speaker 2>an era in America when, gosh, you know, it was

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<v Speaker 2>just a much better time for all of us. You know,

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<v Speaker 2>we didn't have the anger politics going on, and the

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<v Speaker 2>neighborhoods were full of just growing up. It's it's a

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<v Speaker 2>coming of age, a baseball neighborhood movie. You know, a young,

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<v Speaker 2>little nerd guy moves into a neighborhood and the neighborhood

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<v Speaker 2>kids tak him in. They need a baseball player and

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<v Speaker 2>he doesn't know anything about it, so what he experiences,

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<v Speaker 2>but it's a it's a movie about good mental health

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<v Speaker 2>in young people, and you just you can't talk enough

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<v Speaker 2>about good mental health and the importance of good mental

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<v Speaker 2>health and young people, adolescents and and and after adolescence.

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<v Speaker 2>Those are the things you take into adulthood. And here's

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<v Speaker 2>a movie about everybody feeling welcome that the majority, the

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<v Speaker 2>majority coming together for a combined effort, you know, to

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<v Speaker 2>make something happen. Applause rewards. All of that is is

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<v Speaker 2>a uh, it's just very good for the mental health

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<v Speaker 2>and young people. So this film really captures all that.

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<v Speaker 2>And James Earl Jones is in that. I saw him

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<v Speaker 2>on Broadway and I have never seen a performance of

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<v Speaker 2>anyone on stage live better than a James Earl Jones.

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<v Speaker 2>He can project, yes, his whole body is an actor,

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<v Speaker 2>you know. And he was honored by the Cherokee Nation

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<v Speaker 2>here in Oklahoma several years ago as their Cherokee of

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<v Speaker 2>the Year. He was part Cherokee, and I didn't realize

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<v Speaker 2>and Tommy Lee Jones has been honored by the Cherokee

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<v Speaker 2>and you just never.

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<v Speaker 3>Know who they're going to put an honor on.

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<v Speaker 2>But I was really thrilled to find out that James

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<v Speaker 2>Earl Jones is part Cherokee, because I'm a Cherokee descendant myself.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean in Oklahoma, you're a descendant probably of one

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<v Speaker 2>triver or another.

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<v Speaker 3>At the Dewey Hotel.

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<v Speaker 2>When we give tours, a lot of people are very

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<v Speaker 2>surprised that we had slavery in Indian Territory, and they're

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<v Speaker 2>even more surprised that the tribe, the Cherokee tribe, brought

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<v Speaker 2>most of the slavery to Indian Territory.

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<v Speaker 3>There were rich, very wealthy.

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<v Speaker 2>Cherokee that came before and during and after the Trailer

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<v Speaker 2>of Tears, and they brought their property the slaves with them,

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<v Speaker 2>and that slavery. They were not allowed to intermarry with

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<v Speaker 2>the Cherokee. The Cherokee did not teach them how to

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<v Speaker 2>read and write. They did everything they could to go

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<v Speaker 2>along with the whites to be left alone, and they

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<v Speaker 2>still put them on the Trail of Tears. But the Cherokee,

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<v Speaker 2>being a very advanced tribe of people, saw nothing wrong

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<v Speaker 2>with the slavery issue. So when you got out here

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<v Speaker 2>in in Indian Territory, we had lots of runaways. There

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<v Speaker 2>was a runaway slave. You could run away from a

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<v Speaker 2>rich Indian family and there was no one to turn

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<v Speaker 2>you in like in the Old South or a neighbor

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<v Speaker 2>accarenting the next state, Indian Territory. Oklahoma had a lot

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<v Speaker 2>of runaways and most of them were trying to work

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<v Speaker 2>their way to Kansas and freedom, and a lot of

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<v Speaker 2>them were trained to be Buffalo soldiers and they were

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<v Speaker 2>That's another thing when you go on a tour to

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<v Speaker 2>a museum, you find out so many things, but oh,

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<v Speaker 2>you do the Blacks were big cowboys in this Texas

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<v Speaker 2>and those were states that had slaves who learned how

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<v Speaker 2>to be really good cowboys. So there's a great history

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<v Speaker 2>of cowboys that from a black culture, and so there

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<v Speaker 2>was a lot of that. In the Indian Territory. You

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<v Speaker 2>had slaves. You knew how to ride horses and could

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<v Speaker 2>outride some of the Confederacy. But they were all working

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<v Speaker 2>their way to Kansas, which is our country up in here.

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<v Speaker 2>We were white encroachment country up here, and all of

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<v Speaker 2>our this was all Cherokee Land, northern Cherokee Land, and

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<v Speaker 2>the Confederacy occupied it because they did not want an

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<v Speaker 2>invasion of Texas and Arkansas coming from Kansas. And that's

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<v Speaker 2>what break brought Jake Bartles down here for the first time.

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<v Speaker 2>So all of that's part of the history that you

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<v Speaker 2>can learn by just a field trip to the Dewey Hotel.

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<v Speaker 1>My gosh.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, And we don't preach history, but when those questions

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<v Speaker 2>come up, people are very surprised to find out about

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<v Speaker 2>wealthy Indians that Oklahoma even had slavery. We had one

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<v Speaker 2>hundred and seven engagements between the Union and Confederate forces

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<v Speaker 2>in Indian Territory. That's a lot of battles when you

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<v Speaker 2>look at it for a territory, and we was young.

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<v Speaker 2>We became an Indian territory in eighteen thirty four and

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<v Speaker 2>it was created to for the placing of tribes out here.

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<v Speaker 2>So the hotel is built from Delaware money. Now the

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<v Speaker 2>Delaware where originally from the East coast up near New

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<v Speaker 2>York City. Yeah, they had become a small tribe. Bartlowsville

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<v Speaker 2>is their capital, per se, and it was their money

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<v Speaker 2>that helped build the Dewey Hotel. In nineteen hundred, Jake

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<v Speaker 2>Bartles had married the daughter of Chief journey Cake, who

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<v Speaker 2>was also he was a preacher, a Baptist preacher, and

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<v Speaker 2>we'd like to say in tudw Texas. He was a

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<v Speaker 2>member of the BBB, the Better Baptist Bureau but Nanny

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<v Speaker 2>maintained the avenue of going down a Baptist so she

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<v Speaker 2>had the parlor at the hotel was served as an

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<v Speaker 2>early day church in Dewey, and she eventually built the

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<v Speaker 2>first Baptist church there and it was called the journey

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<v Speaker 2>Cake Baptist Church. And recently the church has donated to

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<v Speaker 2>the hotel some of the artifacts from phil Nannie. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>we've been trying for a long time to get our

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<v Speaker 2>mittens on some of the those things. But they gave

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<v Speaker 2>us a set of four dishes that are commemoritative of

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<v Speaker 2>the journey Cake Baptist Church and we have those on

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<v Speaker 2>display in our dining room. And so it's besides our

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<v Speaker 2>film festival, it's an opportunity to come and learn about

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<v Speaker 2>the hotel and business has picked up. We have a

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<v Speaker 2>lot more visitors than we used to. But we're trying

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<v Speaker 2>to get the Dewey Hotel to be a destination point

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<v Speaker 2>like the Tommis Museums for travelers, and the Pioneer Woman

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<v Speaker 2>over in Pahosca has certainly made that more popular. A

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<v Speaker 2>lot of people were on the route of their pilgrimage

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<v Speaker 2>and to go over and have her wonderful food and

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<v Speaker 2>it is good, so they look up and google things

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<v Speaker 2>to do in the area of Pahusca, and Bartlesville pops up,

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<v Speaker 2>and then the cultured people like to visit museums and

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<v Speaker 2>they oh, the Dewey Hotel, and so we're off the

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<v Speaker 2>beaten path, but they certainly find they do, and so

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<v Speaker 2>we get a lot of customers from out of town.

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<v Speaker 2>But locally, you know, we're just the icon of history,

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<v Speaker 2>that's all. And we're trying to play that up. And

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<v Speaker 2>the film Festival is one way of brightening that star,

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<v Speaker 2>of creating a focal point for Dewey because that hotel

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<v Speaker 2>used to be the focal point for everything.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, entertainment, everything.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, yes, And so anyway, the movie The Sandlot is

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<v Speaker 2>going to be shown this Saturday, and we started at

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<v Speaker 3>And dark and coming early.

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<v Speaker 2>It gets you a hot dog, yes, but it's a

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<v Speaker 2>nice way to enjoy a summer night, it is, and

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<v Speaker 2>to particularly for kids. We keep all of our movies

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<v Speaker 2>are fairly friendly, but I particularly enjoy The Sandlot. And

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<v Speaker 2>it's not just my selections for the film. We have

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<v Speaker 2>actually had a little committee that that says, oh what

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<v Speaker 2>about this, uh, and and but I'm a big pusher

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<v Speaker 2>of preventive mental health in young people, and this is

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<v Speaker 2>one of those movies that really shows the good mental

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<v Speaker 2>health and kids and the importance of participation. And then

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<v Speaker 2>in August, August sixteenth, we're doing back to school movie

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<v Speaker 2>a School of Rock.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh Jact black Jack, Black You amazing. The board members go, oh,

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<v Speaker 3>I really like that movie. It is.

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<v Speaker 2>And so that's a good selection that's going to take

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<v Speaker 2>place on the sixteenth of August. And then in we've

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<v Speaker 2>got some things planned for Labor Day. And then in

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<v Speaker 2>Western Heritage. We haven't selected a movie for Labor Day

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<v Speaker 2>yet time, but Western Heritage we're going to do Andy

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<v Speaker 2>Get Your Gun Good. You know, it just fits like

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<v Speaker 2>a glove there. And then we've got you know, a

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<v Speaker 2>Memorial Day. I'm not my World Day, Armistice Day. See,

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<v Speaker 2>a Veteran's Day. Yeah, And so those are we'd like

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<v Speaker 2>to do Holidays, Thanksgiving. It's been a very successful series.

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<v Speaker 2>But they do they do this in other museums. Tulsa

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<v Speaker 2>does it at their museums, but Dewey is unique. I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>it's just it's a small audience. We provide the chairs

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<v Speaker 2>and some movies we'll have maybe twenty five people. Some

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<v Speaker 2>won't have fifty people. But it's it's a lot of fun.

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<v Speaker 2>So if you're looking for something to do on a

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<v Speaker 2>nice summer night out the sad.

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<v Speaker 1>Lot, let's do it. Hey, Earl, Thanks, I mean, let's uh,

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<v Speaker 1>let's get this going here.

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<v Speaker 3>Joe, Joe, joey. I have that problem with Earl a lot.

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<v Speaker 1>I bet you do. I call him Joe.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, just we were at the Kopan restaurant last night.

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<v Speaker 2>I enjoyed chicken fried steak. Oh gosh, and that very

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<v Speaker 2>thing came up and they did double takes and said, well,

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<v Speaker 2>we never see you two boys together.

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<v Speaker 1>I saw you together once once. Yeah, it was a

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<v Speaker 1>fleeting moment.

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<v Speaker 3>That leading moment.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, actually, ear Earl Sears and I are very close brothers.

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<v Speaker 2>Then we differ in politics, but we don't let that

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<v Speaker 2>separate us. We're very dedicated to brothers.

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<v Speaker 1>Joe, thanks for being with this, yere Dewey Hotel. What

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<v Speaker 1>times are we going to start the old flickorama?

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<v Speaker 3>It starts at nine pm? All right, nice and dark?

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<v Speaker 1>All right, very good? Be there, folks or b square