Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 1: It is time now for our community connection right here
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Speaker 1: Grass Boats. Joe Sears is with us today and dewey'scott talent.
Speaker 1: We always knew that, but now we're going to celebrate it.
Speaker 2: We're going to celebrate Dewey's got talent. Tell us about this, well,
Speaker 2: we at the Dewey Hotel Museum. The last couple of
Speaker 2: years we've been trying to come up with plans to
Speaker 2: promote the hotel and give it an existence like it
Speaker 2: used to have, and you know, a high profile for
Speaker 2: Dewey and Dewey's just a wonderful small town. But the
Speaker 2: center of it has always been the Dewey Hotel Museum
Speaker 2: from the very beginning. Jake Bartle's built that hotel, and
Speaker 2: he's famous for moving his store from Bartlesville on a
Speaker 2: track with oxen and rollers. Took him eighty eight days
Speaker 2: to get it up there. And I tell tourists up
Speaker 2: there that it was a high end grocery store for
Speaker 2: its day. You know, if you were out in the area,
Speaker 2: you wanted to go to the Bartle's store because the
Speaker 2: Nanny Journey Cake Bartles carried everything and it stayed open
Speaker 2: as it traveled to Dewey. But when he put it down,
Speaker 2: Dewey was founded, and he named it after Admiral Dewey
Speaker 2: from the Battle of Manila, which took place as they
Speaker 2: were building the hotel. So it just became the center
Speaker 2: point of early day history in the area and one
Speaker 2: of the few big things that's preserved in our local history.
Speaker 2: And Jake Bartles was just a revered mayn and he
Speaker 2: was the squire, a Civil War veteran. He started the
Speaker 2: Dewey Round Up rodeo, and so they used to have
Speaker 2: a Jake Bartle's Day that was celebrated on June eleventh
Speaker 2: usually that's his birthday. So I found all these old
Speaker 2: records they had a parade and all these things for
Speaker 2: kids to you on Jake Bartle's Day. So we're just
Speaker 2: trying to revive that. So we came up with we
Speaker 2: wanted to do it last year, but it was so
Speaker 2: dang hot it was too late. So in the spring
Speaker 2: we started our campaign for due. He's got talent and
Speaker 2: it's a talent show. That takes place on June fourteenth,
Speaker 2: Flag Day, and we're not going to have a parade.
Speaker 2: I think that's in the future. But the City of
Speaker 2: Dwey came up with some prize money to help us
Speaker 2: produce the talent show, and so the city and the
Speaker 2: hotel are going to put on this talent show. But
Speaker 2: it's for contestants. It can only be doing residents understood,
Speaker 2: And we're hoping that all the talent comes out of
Speaker 2: the woodwork. It's all part of our campaign of celebrating
Speaker 2: the small town. We do it at Christmas. We have
Speaker 2: a great visiting place for Santa Christmas, and so we're
Speaker 2: hoping that the talent comes out of the woodwork. On
Speaker 2: excuse me, you have to come by the hotel and
Speaker 2: get an entry for me and that doesn't cost you
Speaker 2: anything to enter all ages, all types of talent we
Speaker 2: were talking about. There was a little boy from he
Speaker 2: was He saw our poster and he said, could I
Speaker 2: enter it? And I said, do you live in Dewey.
Speaker 2: He said no. His dad says, we live out by
Speaker 2: Hudson Lake and I think it's Old Sage County. I said, well,
Speaker 2: that's not Dewey. I said, you got be in Dewey
Speaker 2: and he says, but I have a really great talent.
Speaker 2: I said, what's your talent and he says, I know
Speaker 2: every animal in the world. Oh well, my goodness, Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's a talent. Then asked me if I knew what
Speaker 2: a platypus was. Oh yeah, and I got the country wrong.
Speaker 2: I said Madagascar and he said, no, it's Australia. Dang it.
Speaker 2: I knew that this nine year old beat me. So
Speaker 2: we're all kinds of talent, reciting poetry, playing the violin.
Speaker 2: Surely there's an old fiddle player out there, you know,
Speaker 2: without spitting tobacco can show up. We've got one entry
Speaker 2: so far. Now you have to come by the hotel
Speaker 2: to fill out the form. It's a very short form
Speaker 2: just basically it's very short, but we take the form
Speaker 2: and keep it because you have to have one filled
Speaker 2: out to enter the contest. So we're encouraging people to
Speaker 2: drop by the hotel Tuesday through Saturday and the tour
Speaker 2: guys have it all ready to hand you and they
Speaker 2: sign you up and it doesn't cost anything, and we
Speaker 2: record you and then on Saturday, the June fourteenth, at
Speaker 2: six o'clock, we've got three judges, including the mayor of Dewey,
Speaker 2: so it's kind of high falutin. Earl Sears and I
Speaker 2: were going to be the MC's that would be fun.
Speaker 2: My brother and I don't generally do a whole lot together,
Speaker 2: but when we do, we're crazy. But anyway, it promises
Speaker 2: to be a really fun talent show. And then immediately
Speaker 2: following the talent show, we have a Jake Bartole's birthday
Speaker 2: party celebration and we do a small history pageant at
Speaker 2: the beginnings of Dewey and Judge Allen Gentis is playing
Speaker 2: Jake Bartoles. We have an actress from Tulsa who comes
Speaker 2: in to play Nanny journey Cake and the two of
Speaker 2: them when they got married back in the eighteen seventies
Speaker 2: in Kansas. He had just returned from the Civil War
Speaker 2: back to Kansas met her and the only way for
Speaker 2: people that really had land back in Indian Territory times
Speaker 2: was to marry into the Indian nations. And Jake Bartle's
Speaker 2: married a Delaware lady who was the chief daughter Nanny
Speaker 2: journey Cake. Well, she had education and money in her land.
Speaker 2: Allotment was where the hotel was built, and this is Delaware, country,
Speaker 2: and it was Delaware money that helped build the hotel.
Speaker 2: And to this date, why the big Powwow just ended
Speaker 2: for the Delaware You know what a spectacular time that is.
Speaker 2: So there's lots of history associated with the hotel, and
Speaker 2: our little history pageant is going to It's only about
Speaker 2: thirty minutes long, but it's fun. It has all the
Speaker 2: townspeople and how Dewy began. And it's written and directed
Speaker 2: by Shelby Brammer.
Speaker 3: Nice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's our main director here in Bartlesville.
Speaker 1: She had a director and been in a couple of
Speaker 1: movies that Creamer Versus Cramer and a few.
Speaker 2: Others and places in the heart Souli Field. She's a
Speaker 2: New York trained lady. Her significant other is from Bartlesville
Speaker 2: and that's how she made her way here. Like so
Speaker 2: many people, and then when you get to Bartlesville, you're think,
Speaker 2: you know, this is a great area. I want to
Speaker 2: raise my kids here. And Phillips really insists on having
Speaker 2: a really nice town. They always have. Bartlesville has always
Speaker 2: benefited from Phillips Petroleum Company. They just to get their
Speaker 2: families interested in living here. It's taken an arts scene,
Speaker 2: a sports scene, a high quality educational level, unlike any
Speaker 2: other town in Oklahoma really I mean under certainly under
Speaker 2: one hundred thousand population, and so we've always benefited from
Speaker 2: that in Bartlesville in the arts. So we're just kind
Speaker 2: of carrying on a tradition, I think. And then we
Speaker 2: have spirits at the hotel, which jumping to that, I'm
Speaker 2: very comfortable about that the spirits there over the one hundred.
Speaker 2: They're celebrating one hundred and twenty five years of the
Speaker 2: hotel being open. And I always worry about how the
Speaker 2: spirits feel about the things that happened, because they've been
Speaker 2: there forever and they really are there and they're very
Speaker 2: friendly spirits, and they like to see the hotel prosper
Speaker 2: and so I can tell that there's an up feeling
Speaker 2: inside the hotel with all this Jake Bartle's celebration coming back.
Speaker 2: It just used to be a big deal. So we're
Speaker 2: trying to revive, revive that and make it a yearly
Speaker 2: destination with tourist towns. Being a destination is an important thing,
Speaker 2: you bet, and Pahaska has become a destination town and
Speaker 2: Bartlefield benefits from that. We get lots of visitors at
Speaker 2: the Hotel and the other museums here from people heading
Speaker 2: over there to the Pioneer Woman and seeing the Ben
Speaker 2: Johnson and the Cavalcade and the Prairie Preserve, and it's
Speaker 2: just really helped. I mean, we used to go play
Speaker 2: in Plaska. Whoever dreamed it was going to become the
Speaker 2: you know what. It has become a food capital, but
Speaker 2: it's a that's a destination town. And and Bartlesville has
Speaker 2: always kind of edged on that with their their oil
Speaker 2: history and Phillips and in the wool of Rock, the
Speaker 2: nice things that we have in our area, you know,
Speaker 2: and in wool of Rock you know, Frank Phillips gave
Speaker 2: back to his community. He did, and that's what it
Speaker 2: takes for a striving community. LBJ gave back to Johnson
Speaker 2: City and it still thrives as a result of someone
Speaker 2: or the big I guess Johnson Ranch. And then Jake
Speaker 2: Bartles did the same thing with Dewey in the Bartlesville area.
Speaker 2: You know, he was a man of vision. He was
Speaker 2: originally a New Jersey man, but he had vision. It
Speaker 2: came down here in the Civil War when this was
Speaker 2: all occupied Confederacy, Northern Cherokee Lands and the Cherokee had
Speaker 2: been kind of bullied that capitulated into joining the Confederacy,
Speaker 2: and they did. The Confederacy did not want an invasion
Speaker 2: from Kansas of Texas and Arkansas, so they put troopers
Speaker 2: in this area. U Highway sixty during the Civil War
Speaker 2: was called the California Highway, and it hugged Kansas and
Speaker 2: it was a military road for the Confederacy, but it
Speaker 2: also kept bike people out of the middle of the
Speaker 2: Indian Nations where there really wasn't any law to protect them.
Speaker 2: And if you got out of line in Indian Territory,
Speaker 2: you went to Fort Smith and faced the hanging Judge
Speaker 2: Judge Parker. So it was just it was an interesting
Speaker 2: time for history and there were plenty of Civil War
Speaker 2: battles in the area, skirmishes. The Confederacy had half Cherokee
Speaker 2: half half Confederate uniforms. They had had their own unique
Speaker 2: way of dressing for military and the Cherokee were involved
Speaker 2: in the Battle of Pea Ridge. And it was just
Speaker 2: but our area of the country between the Sky took
Speaker 2: had one of the bigger battles in the Civil War
Speaker 2: over in eastern Oklahoma by Grove. So we live in
Speaker 2: northern Cherokee Lands, which being the biggest tribe of the
Speaker 2: five civilized tribes, it was quite a focal point during
Speaker 2: the Civil War. So that's when Jake Bartles first came
Speaker 2: down to this area and saw how fertile it was,
Speaker 2: especially for wheat, and that's what he and his wife
Speaker 2: invested in, was a wheat business. So we're going to
Speaker 2: try to revive a lot of that. And mister Bartle's
Speaker 2: was a lot of fun. He gave back to the community.
Speaker 2: That's what I was saying earlier. There are men who
Speaker 2: give back to their communities that makes them thrive as communities.
Speaker 2: And Dewey has always thrived as a separate little town
Speaker 2: from Bartleville. It's not a sand springs to Tulsa. Dewey's
Speaker 2: always been his own little entity, and they're a tough
Speaker 2: little town. I've always enjoyed it, but they certainly have
Speaker 2: a very rich history in our area. And now the
Speaker 2: rodeo days Jake Bartle's started that. Mister Bartles was dying
Speaker 2: in nineteen oh eight and his bucket list was to
Speaker 2: see his old Civil War buddies. So they brought them
Speaker 2: down from Kansas and put them up in the hotel
Speaker 2: and the outfront, they said, there was hundreds of tents,
Speaker 2: and so all these old veterans showed up. They put
Speaker 2: on a Wild West show for what the locals did,
Speaker 2: and so that turned out to be the beginnings of
Speaker 2: the Dewey Round of Rodeo and it just became so popular.
Speaker 2: And one of the things that made it popular was
Speaker 2: mister Bartle's insisted that the men and women who started
Speaker 2: the first Wild West show there for the old soldiers,
Speaker 2: that they always be able to participate. So through its
Speaker 2: whole beginning to its very end, the rodeo would allow
Speaker 2: a young wrangler from one of the local ranchers to
Speaker 2: compete against professionals like Bill Pickett who and steer wrestling,
Speaker 2: and the crowds love to see the underdogs go home
Speaker 2: with thousands of dollars and that's always fun to see.
Speaker 2: And so that just forty thousand people came to Little
Speaker 2: Old Dewey and there were no hotels to take them in,
Speaker 2: so everybody camped. That's a lot of camping, a lot
Speaker 2: of it's a lot of cookware. Wow, Yeah, that's a lot.
Speaker 2: But it was something that it became a destination every summer.
Speaker 2: Dewey was a destination, and so it'd be nice to
Speaker 2: see all that happen again for the area and Pahaska
Speaker 2: people travel in. Just the other day I had North
Speaker 2: Carolina visitors at the hotel, and they're here to eat
Speaker 2: at the Pioneer Woman, and these people look up places
Speaker 2: along the way that they want to see. And there
Speaker 2: was an Outlaw tour, which gave us the idea that
Speaker 2: maybe we could put together a string of hotels. There's
Speaker 2: one in Pawnee. There's the m at Dalton House here
Speaker 2: that's on its way to being opened. Over on the
Speaker 2: west side of our Bartlesville, the Dewey Hotel. There's the
Speaker 2: Dalton Brothers Museum in Coffeeville and that, and there's the
Speaker 2: Benders Museum up in Cherryville. And the Benders certainly is
Speaker 2: the ending a lot of horrible prairie scary story that
Speaker 2: would make a great Netflix series. But what an amazing
Speaker 2: time period that was. And it was a lot of
Speaker 2: old Union soldiers that helped settle Southeast Kansas after the war,
Speaker 2: and they were a lot of the Benders victims out
Speaker 2: on the prairie. But the Outlaw Trail, I think would
Speaker 2: be a lot of fun and a Pasco would be
Speaker 2: on there with there, so you know, there would be
Speaker 2: like five museums on an outlaw tour that we're just
Speaker 2: getting more people to coming into the area. Something that
Speaker 2: they look up things to do. And Dewey Hotel. Uh,
Speaker 2: it's just in the mansion over in Coffeeville, the Brown Mansion,
Speaker 2: anything that and they love the wool of rock logs.
Speaker 2: So so we're hoping all that happens. We want to
Speaker 2: make Dewey a hot spot in the summertime for entertainment
Speaker 2: and celebrating our local history.
Speaker 3: Now once again for folks who want to be in.
Speaker 3: Dewey has talent.
Speaker 2: Dewey's Got Talent is a part of this Jake Bartle's
Speaker 2: Day birthday and bash. It's June the fourteenth at six pm.
Speaker 2: It's free admission. It's out in front of the hotel.
Speaker 3: How do we how do we sign up? If we're
Speaker 3: Dewey in.
Speaker 2: You come into the Dewey Hotel and get an entry
Speaker 2: for him and it's very short. It's just a few
Speaker 2: questions and a phone number so that we can get
Speaker 2: a hold of you. And then you show up that
Speaker 2: we give you a sheet that tells you you know
Speaker 2: what to do, what time to show up and you know,
Speaker 2: find a stage manager and the show starts at six,
Speaker 2: and it's we don't know who's going to be in it,
Speaker 2: and that's what makes it fun.
Speaker 3: You know what you were talking about the rodeo and everything.
Speaker 1: It wouldn't it be kind of cool to get somebody
Speaker 1: who maybe does rope tricks or you better better.
Speaker 3: Have somebody right in with that mixed museum right next door.
Speaker 2: That's right. Yeah. And when Tom Mix is in the
Speaker 2: historical pageant too, oh, that's yeah. We've we've got a
Speaker 2: scene with him coming there. There's a movie scene that's
Speaker 2: being filmed during the pageant and Tom Mix is making
Speaker 2: part of a movie. And we got a movie actor
Speaker 2: who's playing the party is not He was in Killers
Speaker 2: of the Flower Moon Reservation Dogs and he's gonna play
Speaker 2: Tom Mix. N you know, Tom Mix was. He was
Speaker 2: quite a dresser, a fancy dresser. He's a reporter wagner
Speaker 2: of movies. But we want people to show up to
Speaker 2: show support for the dew. He's got talent. But the
Speaker 2: main thing is coming on here today was to talk
Speaker 2: about if you've got a talent, if grandpa, you know,
Speaker 2: if grandpa plays the spoons, get him out there. It's
Speaker 2: it would be a lot of fun to see the
Speaker 2: locals come out and show their talent, tap dancing, break dancing,
Speaker 2: anything that that shows you have a talent. And I
Speaker 2: say poetry, poetry. Being able to write and say poetry
Speaker 2: is always a talent. So anything you've got, bring it.
Speaker 1: And by the way, you ask me a question before
Speaker 1: we went on, I'm ninety nine point nine percent sure
Speaker 1: I can do it.
Speaker 2: Oh that's right, yes, okay, great, Yeah, we've asked Bob,
Speaker 2: We've asked you Tom to be one of our judges,
Speaker 2: and okay, that's really good.
Speaker 3: So Family Catastrophe.
Speaker 2: It looks like we're going to have Tom Davis as
Speaker 2: one of our judges and that's great. And we have
Speaker 2: the mayor of Dewey, Tom Hayes, and then one of
Speaker 2: our city workers at Cassie Hayes. So it's a good panel.
Speaker 2: One of the judges always judges that the Dewey Christmas Parade,
Speaker 2: you know, it's always good to have a and you've
Speaker 2: judged before. And of course the classic of having the mayor.
Speaker 3: There, that's that's the icing on the cake.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm going to be MC because I know
Speaker 2: how to keep things moving.
Speaker 1: Well, I want I tell you, Joe, thank you for
Speaker 1: dropping by today, Thanks for letting us know about this.
Speaker 2: Well, I hope everybody's in the area in Dewey. Next year,
Speaker 2: I think we're going to try and extend it to
Speaker 2: Washington County. We'll see how it goes. It goes right now,
Speaker 2: it's a Dewey emphasis, got it. Thank you, Joe, Thank
Speaker 2: you