[AT] OT: Oklahoma Centennial

[Gordon Hart]

H.L
Having lived there for 20 years and now back home here in "Lap Land" (15 
miles into AR) I have a lot of fond memories of Oklahoma like my wife and 
son.
I've been to the "Little Sahara desert"  "The Kiamichi Mountains" 
"Sequoyah's Home" and the Oil fields of Bartlesville near Tom Mix's 
Place,seen tornado's first hand and a lot of the rest of Okla and there is a 
several different cultures and terrain to choose from.

I worked in OKC for a company who does crane rentals, and commercial 
construction and builds bridges all over OK which allowed me to see numerous 
parts of the state. I teamed with my old boss about a year ago to form a 
company here doing Steel Erection and crane rentals. I had a Crane in 
Spencer yesterday.

Gordon
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "H. L. Staples" <hlstaples at mcloudteleco.com>
To: "Antique tractor" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 6:34 PM
Subject: [AT] OT: Oklahoma Centennial


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> Oklahoma Centennial
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> Oklahoma is celebrating its 100th anniversary of
> statehood this year. Because most people think of the
> stage play "Oklahoma!" when they hear the state's name mentioned,
> citizens are attempting to update the state's image by sharing
> interesting state facts with others as we celebrate our Centennial.
>
> Oklahoma is not only the home of Ado Annie and Aunt
> Eller from "Oklahoma!" but of the parking meter
> (invented in OKC) and the shopping cart (invented in
> Ardmore).
>
> The electric guitar also was invented in Oklahoma, by
> a Beggs musician named Bob Dunn. The first "Yield"
> sign was installed in Tulsa.
>
> **Environmental Protection Agency recognizes Oklahoma
> as having the most diverse terrain of any state in the
> nation.   The state, according to EPA, boasts 11
> distinct eco-regions.
>
> The state has more man-made lakes than any other
> state, which give us more than a million surface-acres
> of water and 2,000 more miles of shoreline than the
> Atlantic and Gulf coasts combined.
>
> The Sooner State has produced more astronauts than any
> other state in the union. Owen Garriott is an Enid
> boy, of course, while Tom Stafford is from
> Weatherford, Shannon Lucid from Oklahoma City, William
> Pogue from Okemah and the late Gordon Cooper from
> Shawnee.
>
> Oklahoma is home to the Amateur Softball Association
> and Hall of Fame, a world class zoo in OKC and more F4
> and F5 tornadoes than any other state.
>
> Oklahoma is the third-largest gas-producing state in
> the nation and ranks fourth in the production of
> wheat, cattle and calves, fifth in the production of
> pecans, sixth in peanuts and eighth in peaches.
>
> The state's colors are neither OU's crimson and cream
> nor the orange and black of OSU but green and white.
>
> Oklahomans practice 73 major religions. The largest is
> the Southern Baptist Convention, with nearly 1,600
> churches and more than 960,000 members.
>
> Oklahoma gave birth to Dick Tracy (cartoonist Chester
> Gould is a native of Pawnee) and Donald Duck (Clarence
> "Ducky" Nash, the original voice of Walt Disney's
> Donald, grew up in Watonga).
>
> Oklahomans have survived the Dust Bowl, any number of
> killer tornadoes, the 1995 bombing of Oklahoma City's
> Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and various oil
> booms and busts. Oklahoma is populated by people who
> are caring, giving, hard-working, patriotic and
> fiercely independent. Oklahoma is a good place to
> live, work and play.
>
> The challenge in this, our centennial year, is to make
> the rest of America aware of what Oklahoma has to
> offer, besides "beautiful mornings," "fringe-laden
> surreys" and "a girl who cain't say no."
>
> The official statehood celebration will be in
> November. In the meantime, individual cities are
> restaging various events associated with statehood and
> the settling of Indian Territory which eventually
> became our state. It's a great time to be an Oklahoman
> and I wanted to share this with you!
>
> Pass this on to friends who might not know anything about our state.
> Especially, since the quarter design won't show anything informative about
> OKLAHOMA other than we have scissor-tailed flycatchers and sunflowers.
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