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<v Speaker 1>Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.

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<v Speaker 1>It is time now for our community connection right here

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<v Speaker 1>on K one, the one you trust, and it's being

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<v Speaker 1>brought to you by Wesley and Kitty College and Tall

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<v Speaker 1>Grass Boats. Joe Sears is with us today and dewey'scott talent.

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<v Speaker 1>We always knew that, but now we're going to celebrate it.

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<v Speaker 2>We're going to celebrate Dewey's got talent. Tell us about this, well,

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<v Speaker 2>we at the Dewey Hotel Museum. The last couple of

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<v Speaker 2>years we've been trying to come up with plans to

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<v Speaker 2>promote the hotel and give it an existence like it

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<v Speaker 2>used to have, and you know, a high profile for

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<v Speaker 2>Dewey and Dewey's just a wonderful small town. But the

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<v Speaker 2>center of it has always been the Dewey Hotel Museum

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<v Speaker 2>from the very beginning. Jake Bartle's built that hotel, and

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<v Speaker 2>he's famous for moving his store from Bartlesville on a

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<v Speaker 2>track with oxen and rollers. Took him eighty eight days

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<v Speaker 2>to get it up there. And I tell tourists up

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<v Speaker 2>there that it was a high end grocery store for

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<v Speaker 2>its day. You know, if you were out in the area,

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<v Speaker 2>you wanted to go to the Bartle's store because the

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<v Speaker 2>Nanny Journey Cake Bartles carried everything and it stayed open

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<v Speaker 2>as it traveled to Dewey. But when he put it down,

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<v Speaker 2>Dewey was founded, and he named it after Admiral Dewey

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<v Speaker 2>from the Battle of Manila, which took place as they

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<v Speaker 2>were building the hotel. So it just became the center

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<v Speaker 2>point of early day history in the area and one

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<v Speaker 2>of the few big things that's preserved in our local history.

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<v Speaker 2>And Jake Bartles was just a revered mayn and he

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<v Speaker 2>was the squire, a Civil War veteran. He started the

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<v Speaker 2>Dewey Round Up rodeo, and so they used to have

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<v Speaker 2>a Jake Bartle's Day that was celebrated on June eleventh

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<v Speaker 2>usually that's his birthday. So I found all these old

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<v Speaker 2>records they had a parade and all these things for

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<v Speaker 2>kids to you on Jake Bartle's Day. So we're just

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<v Speaker 2>trying to revive that. So we came up with we

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<v Speaker 2>wanted to do it last year, but it was so

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<v Speaker 2>dang hot it was too late. So in the spring

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<v Speaker 2>we started our campaign for due. He's got talent and

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<v Speaker 2>it's a talent show. That takes place on June fourteenth,

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<v Speaker 2>Flag Day, and we're not going to have a parade.

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<v Speaker 2>I think that's in the future. But the City of

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<v Speaker 2>Dwey came up with some prize money to help us

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<v Speaker 2>produce the talent show, and so the city and the

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<v Speaker 2>hotel are going to put on this talent show. But

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<v Speaker 2>it's for contestants. It can only be doing residents understood,

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<v Speaker 2>And we're hoping that all the talent comes out of

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<v Speaker 2>the woodwork. It's all part of our campaign of celebrating

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<v Speaker 2>the small town. We do it at Christmas. We have

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<v Speaker 2>a great visiting place for Santa Christmas, and so we're

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<v Speaker 2>hoping that the talent comes out of the woodwork. On

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<v Speaker 2>excuse me, you have to come by the hotel and

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<v Speaker 2>get an entry for me and that doesn't cost you

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<v Speaker 2>anything to enter all ages, all types of talent we

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<v Speaker 2>were talking about. There was a little boy from he

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<v Speaker 2>was He saw our poster and he said, could I

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<v Speaker 2>enter it? And I said, do you live in Dewey.

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<v Speaker 2>He said no. His dad says, we live out by

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<v Speaker 2>Hudson Lake and I think it's Old Sage County. I said, well,

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<v Speaker 2>that's not Dewey. I said, you got be in Dewey

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<v Speaker 2>and he says, but I have a really great talent.

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<v Speaker 2>I said, what's your talent and he says, I know

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<v Speaker 2>every animal in the world. Oh well, my goodness, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>that's a talent. Then asked me if I knew what

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<v Speaker 2>a platypus was. Oh yeah, and I got the country wrong.

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<v Speaker 2>I said Madagascar and he said, no, it's Australia. Dang it.

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<v Speaker 2>I knew that this nine year old beat me. So

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<v Speaker 2>we're all kinds of talent, reciting poetry, playing the violin.

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<v Speaker 2>Surely there's an old fiddle player out there, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>without spitting tobacco can show up. We've got one entry

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<v Speaker 2>so far. Now you have to come by the hotel

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<v Speaker 2>to fill out the form. It's a very short form

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<v Speaker 2>just basically it's very short, but we take the form

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<v Speaker 2>and keep it because you have to have one filled

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<v Speaker 2>out to enter the contest. So we're encouraging people to

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<v Speaker 2>drop by the hotel Tuesday through Saturday and the tour

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<v Speaker 2>guys have it all ready to hand you and they

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<v Speaker 2>sign you up and it doesn't cost anything, and we

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<v Speaker 2>record you and then on Saturday, the June fourteenth, at

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<v Speaker 2>six o'clock, we've got three judges, including the mayor of Dewey,

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<v Speaker 2>so it's kind of high falutin. Earl Sears and I

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<v Speaker 2>were going to be the MC's that would be fun.

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<v Speaker 2>My brother and I don't generally do a whole lot together,

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<v Speaker 2>but when we do, we're crazy. But anyway, it promises

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<v Speaker 2>to be a really fun talent show. And then immediately

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<v Speaker 2>following the talent show, we have a Jake Bartole's birthday

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<v Speaker 2>party celebration and we do a small history pageant at

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<v Speaker 2>the beginnings of Dewey and Judge Allen Gentis is playing

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<v Speaker 2>Jake Bartoles. We have an actress from Tulsa who comes

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<v Speaker 2>in to play Nanny journey Cake and the two of

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<v Speaker 2>them when they got married back in the eighteen seventies

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<v Speaker 2>in Kansas. He had just returned from the Civil War

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<v Speaker 2>back to Kansas met her and the only way for

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<v Speaker 2>people that really had land back in Indian Territory times

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<v Speaker 2>was to marry into the Indian nations. And Jake Bartle's

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<v Speaker 2>married a Delaware lady who was the chief daughter Nanny

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<v Speaker 2>journey Cake. Well, she had education and money in her land.

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<v Speaker 2>Allotment was where the hotel was built, and this is Delaware, country,

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<v Speaker 2>and it was Delaware money that helped build the hotel.

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<v Speaker 2>And to this date, why the big Powwow just ended

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<v Speaker 2>for the Delaware You know what a spectacular time that is.

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<v Speaker 2>So there's lots of history associated with the hotel, and

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<v Speaker 2>our little history pageant is going to It's only about

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<v Speaker 2>thirty minutes long, but it's fun. It has all the

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<v Speaker 2>townspeople and how Dewy began. And it's written and directed

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<v Speaker 2>by Shelby Brammer.

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<v Speaker 3>Nice.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, she's our main director here in Bartlesville.

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<v Speaker 1>She had a director and been in a couple of

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<v Speaker 1>movies that Creamer Versus Cramer and a few.

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<v Speaker 2>Others and places in the heart Souli Field. She's a

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<v Speaker 2>New York trained lady. Her significant other is from Bartlesville

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<v Speaker 2>and that's how she made her way here. Like so

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<v Speaker 2>many people, and then when you get to Bartlesville, you're think,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, this is a great area. I want to

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<v Speaker 2>raise my kids here. And Phillips really insists on having

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<v Speaker 2>a really nice town. They always have. Bartlesville has always

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<v Speaker 2>benefited from Phillips Petroleum Company. They just to get their

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<v Speaker 2>families interested in living here. It's taken an arts scene,

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<v Speaker 2>a sports scene, a high quality educational level, unlike any

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<v Speaker 2>other town in Oklahoma really I mean under certainly under

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<v Speaker 2>one hundred thousand population, and so we've always benefited from

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<v Speaker 2>that in Bartlesville in the arts. So we're just kind

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<v Speaker 2>of carrying on a tradition, I think. And then we

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<v Speaker 2>have spirits at the hotel, which jumping to that, I'm

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<v Speaker 2>very comfortable about that the spirits there over the one hundred.

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<v Speaker 2>They're celebrating one hundred and twenty five years of the

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<v Speaker 2>hotel being open. And I always worry about how the

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<v Speaker 2>spirits feel about the things that happened, because they've been

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<v Speaker 2>there forever and they really are there and they're very

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<v Speaker 2>friendly spirits, and they like to see the hotel prosper

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<v Speaker 2>and so I can tell that there's an up feeling

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<v Speaker 2>inside the hotel with all this Jake Bartle's celebration coming back.

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<v Speaker 2>It just used to be a big deal. So we're

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<v Speaker 2>trying to revive, revive that and make it a yearly

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<v Speaker 2>destination with tourist towns. Being a destination is an important thing,

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<v Speaker 2>you bet, and Pahaska has become a destination town and

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<v Speaker 2>Bartlefield benefits from that. We get lots of visitors at

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<v Speaker 2>the Hotel and the other museums here from people heading

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<v Speaker 2>over there to the Pioneer Woman and seeing the Ben

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<v Speaker 2>Johnson and the Cavalcade and the Prairie Preserve, and it's

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<v Speaker 2>just really helped. I mean, we used to go play

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<v Speaker 2>in Plaska. Whoever dreamed it was going to become the

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<v Speaker 2>you know what. It has become a food capital, but

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<v Speaker 2>it's a that's a destination town. And and Bartlesville has

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<v Speaker 2>always kind of edged on that with their their oil

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<v Speaker 2>history and Phillips and in the wool of Rock, the

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<v Speaker 2>nice things that we have in our area, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>and in wool of Rock you know, Frank Phillips gave

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<v Speaker 2>back to his community. He did, and that's what it

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<v Speaker 2>takes for a striving community. LBJ gave back to Johnson

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<v Speaker 2>City and it still thrives as a result of someone

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<v Speaker 2>or the big I guess Johnson Ranch. And then Jake

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<v Speaker 2>Bartles did the same thing with Dewey in the Bartlesville area.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, he was a man of vision. He was

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<v Speaker 2>originally a New Jersey man, but he had vision. It

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<v Speaker 2>came down here in the Civil War when this was

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<v Speaker 2>all occupied Confederacy, Northern Cherokee Lands and the Cherokee had

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<v Speaker 2>been kind of bullied that capitulated into joining the Confederacy,

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<v Speaker 2>and they did. The Confederacy did not want an invasion

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<v Speaker 2>from Kansas of Texas and Arkansas, so they put troopers

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<v Speaker 2>in this area. U Highway sixty during the Civil War

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<v Speaker 2>was called the California Highway, and it hugged Kansas and

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<v Speaker 2>it was a military road for the Confederacy, but it

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<v Speaker 2>also kept bike people out of the middle of the

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<v Speaker 2>Indian Nations where there really wasn't any law to protect them.

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<v Speaker 2>And if you got out of line in Indian Territory,

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<v Speaker 2>you went to Fort Smith and faced the hanging Judge

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<v Speaker 2>Judge Parker. So it was just it was an interesting

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<v Speaker 2>time for history and there were plenty of Civil War

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<v Speaker 2>battles in the area, skirmishes. The Confederacy had half Cherokee

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<v Speaker 2>half half Confederate uniforms. They had had their own unique

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<v Speaker 2>way of dressing for military and the Cherokee were involved

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<v Speaker 2>in the Battle of Pea Ridge. And it was just

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<v Speaker 2>but our area of the country between the Sky took

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<v Speaker 2>had one of the bigger battles in the Civil War

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<v Speaker 2>over in eastern Oklahoma by Grove. So we live in

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<v Speaker 2>northern Cherokee Lands, which being the biggest tribe of the

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<v Speaker 2>five civilized tribes, it was quite a focal point during

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<v Speaker 2>the Civil War. So that's when Jake Bartles first came

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<v Speaker 2>down to this area and saw how fertile it was,

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<v Speaker 2>especially for wheat, and that's what he and his wife

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<v Speaker 2>invested in, was a wheat business. So we're going to

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<v Speaker 2>try to revive a lot of that. And mister Bartle's

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<v Speaker 2>was a lot of fun. He gave back to the community.

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<v Speaker 2>That's what I was saying earlier. There are men who

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<v Speaker 2>give back to their communities that makes them thrive as communities.

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<v Speaker 2>And Dewey has always thrived as a separate little town

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<v Speaker 2>from Bartleville. It's not a sand springs to Tulsa. Dewey's

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<v Speaker 2>always been his own little entity, and they're a tough

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<v Speaker 2>little town. I've always enjoyed it, but they certainly have

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<v Speaker 2>a very rich history in our area. And now the

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<v Speaker 2>rodeo days Jake Bartle's started that. Mister Bartles was dying

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<v Speaker 2>in nineteen oh eight and his bucket list was to

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<v Speaker 2>see his old Civil War buddies. So they brought them

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<v Speaker 2>down from Kansas and put them up in the hotel

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<v Speaker 2>and the outfront, they said, there was hundreds of tents,

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<v Speaker 2>and so all these old veterans showed up. They put

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<v Speaker 2>on a Wild West show for what the locals did,

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<v Speaker 2>and so that turned out to be the beginnings of

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<v Speaker 2>the Dewey Round of Rodeo and it just became so popular.

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<v Speaker 2>And one of the things that made it popular was

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<v Speaker 2>mister Bartle's insisted that the men and women who started

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<v Speaker 2>the first Wild West show there for the old soldiers,

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<v Speaker 2>that they always be able to participate. So through its

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<v Speaker 2>whole beginning to its very end, the rodeo would allow

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<v Speaker 2>a young wrangler from one of the local ranchers to

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<v Speaker 2>compete against professionals like Bill Pickett who and steer wrestling,

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<v Speaker 2>and the crowds love to see the underdogs go home

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<v Speaker 2>with thousands of dollars and that's always fun to see.

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<v Speaker 2>And so that just forty thousand people came to Little

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<v Speaker 2>Old Dewey and there were no hotels to take them in,

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<v Speaker 2>so everybody camped. That's a lot of camping, a lot

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<v Speaker 2>of it's a lot of cookware. Wow, Yeah, that's a lot.

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<v Speaker 2>But it was something that it became a destination every summer.

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<v Speaker 2>Dewey was a destination, and so it'd be nice to

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<v Speaker 2>see all that happen again for the area and Pahaska

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<v Speaker 2>people travel in. Just the other day I had North

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<v Speaker 2>Carolina visitors at the hotel, and they're here to eat

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<v Speaker 2>at the Pioneer Woman, and these people look up places

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<v Speaker 2>along the way that they want to see. And there

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<v Speaker 2>was an Outlaw tour, which gave us the idea that

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<v Speaker 2>maybe we could put together a string of hotels. There's

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<v Speaker 2>one in Pawnee. There's the m at Dalton House here

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<v Speaker 2>that's on its way to being opened. Over on the

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<v Speaker 2>west side of our Bartlesville, the Dewey Hotel. There's the

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<v Speaker 2>Dalton Brothers Museum in Coffeeville and that, and there's the

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<v Speaker 2>Benders Museum up in Cherryville. And the Benders certainly is

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<v Speaker 2>the ending a lot of horrible prairie scary story that

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<v Speaker 2>would make a great Netflix series. But what an amazing

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<v Speaker 2>time period that was. And it was a lot of

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<v Speaker 2>old Union soldiers that helped settle Southeast Kansas after the war,

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<v Speaker 2>and they were a lot of the Benders victims out

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<v Speaker 2>on the prairie. But the Outlaw Trail, I think would

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<v Speaker 2>be a lot of fun and a Pasco would be

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<v Speaker 2>on there with there, so you know, there would be

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<v Speaker 2>like five museums on an outlaw tour that we're just

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<v Speaker 2>getting more people to coming into the area. Something that

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<v Speaker 2>they look up things to do. And Dewey Hotel. Uh,

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<v Speaker 2>it's just in the mansion over in Coffeeville, the Brown Mansion,

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<v Speaker 2>anything that and they love the wool of rock logs.

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<v Speaker 2>So so we're hoping all that happens. We want to

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<v Speaker 2>make Dewey a hot spot in the summertime for entertainment

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<v Speaker 2>and celebrating our local history.

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<v Speaker 3>Now once again for folks who want to be in.

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<v Speaker 3>Dewey has talent.

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<v Speaker 2>Dewey's Got Talent is a part of this Jake Bartle's

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<v Speaker 2>Day birthday and bash. It's June the fourteenth at six pm.

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<v Speaker 2>It's free admission. It's out in front of the hotel.

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<v Speaker 3>How do we how do we sign up? If we're

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<v Speaker 3>Dewey in.

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<v Speaker 2>You come into the Dewey Hotel and get an entry

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<v Speaker 2>for him and it's very short. It's just a few

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<v Speaker 2>questions and a phone number so that we can get

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<v Speaker 2>a hold of you. And then you show up that

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<v Speaker 2>we give you a sheet that tells you you know

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<v Speaker 2>what to do, what time to show up and you know,

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<v Speaker 2>find a stage manager and the show starts at six,

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<v Speaker 2>and it's we don't know who's going to be in it,

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<v Speaker 2>and that's what makes it fun.

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<v Speaker 3>You know what you were talking about the rodeo and everything.

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<v Speaker 1>It wouldn't it be kind of cool to get somebody

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<v Speaker 1>who maybe does rope tricks or you better better.

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<v Speaker 3>Have somebody right in with that mixed museum right next door.

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<v Speaker 2>That's right. Yeah. And when Tom Mix is in the

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<v Speaker 2>historical pageant too, oh, that's yeah. We've we've got a

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<v Speaker 2>scene with him coming there. There's a movie scene that's

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<v Speaker 2>being filmed during the pageant and Tom Mix is making

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<v Speaker 2>part of a movie. And we got a movie actor

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<v Speaker 2>who's playing the party is not He was in Killers

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<v Speaker 2>of the Flower Moon Reservation Dogs and he's gonna play

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<v Speaker 2>Tom Mix. N you know, Tom Mix was. He was

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<v Speaker 2>quite a dresser, a fancy dresser. He's a reporter wagner

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<v Speaker 2>of movies. But we want people to show up to

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<v Speaker 2>show support for the dew. He's got talent. But the

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<v Speaker 2>main thing is coming on here today was to talk

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<v Speaker 2>about if you've got a talent, if grandpa, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>if grandpa plays the spoons, get him out there. It's

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<v Speaker 2>it would be a lot of fun to see the

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<v Speaker 2>locals come out and show their talent, tap dancing, break dancing,

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<v Speaker 2>anything that that shows you have a talent. And I

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<v Speaker 2>say poetry, poetry. Being able to write and say poetry

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<v Speaker 2>is always a talent. So anything you've got, bring it.

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<v Speaker 1>And by the way, you ask me a question before

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<v Speaker 1>we went on, I'm ninety nine point nine percent sure

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<v Speaker 1>I can do it.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh that's right, yes, okay, great, Yeah, we've asked Bob,

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<v Speaker 2>We've asked you Tom to be one of our judges,

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<v Speaker 2>and okay, that's really good.

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<v Speaker 3>So Family Catastrophe.

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<v Speaker 2>It looks like we're going to have Tom Davis as

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<v Speaker 2>one of our judges and that's great. And we have

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<v Speaker 2>the mayor of Dewey, Tom Hayes, and then one of

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<v Speaker 2>our city workers at Cassie Hayes. So it's a good panel.

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<v Speaker 2>One of the judges always judges that the Dewey Christmas Parade,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, it's always good to have a and you've

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<v Speaker 2>judged before. And of course the classic of having the mayor.

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<v Speaker 3>There, that's that's the icing on the cake.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and I'm going to be MC because I know

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<v Speaker 2>how to keep things moving.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, I want I tell you, Joe, thank you for

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<v Speaker 1>dropping by today, Thanks for letting us know about this.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, I hope everybody's in the area in Dewey. Next year,

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<v Speaker 2>I think we're going to try and extend it to

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<v Speaker 2>Washington County. We'll see how it goes. It goes right now,

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<v Speaker 2>it's a Dewey emphasis, got it. Thank you, Joe, Thank

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<v Speaker 2>you