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Butter Beans with Ham Hocks 1 meaty ham bones or large ham hocks 3 cups water 1 ½ pound butter beans (fresh) or 2 (16 oz.

Located halfway between Paden and Castle in Okfuskee County, Boley is the largest and most well-known of the more than fifty All-Black towns of Oklahoma and one of only thirteen still existing.

The All-Black towns of Oklahoma represent a unique chapter in American history. Nowhere else, neither in the Deep South nor in the Far West, did so many African American men and women come together to create, occupy, and govern their own communities.

So, after consulting with several MAGAchurches and their pastors, we distilled the thousands of indisputable proofs that Jesus was a hardcore conservative to the strongest 10: 1.

Friday the 13 th was last month but there was enough bad luck going around, so I decided to put it off a month, but the bewitching atmosphere of that special occasion lingers on. Here’s a list of a few who didn’t escape the curse. 1.WILL THE REAL DUMMY PLEASE STAND UP?

—CC— Quote of the Week I will be posting telepathically today. So if you think of something funny, that was me. —CC— The young people have their texting codes . . . however little do they know that us ole timers have our codes also . . .

Yesterday my daughter e-mailed me again, asking why I didn’t do something useful with my time. “Like sitting around the pool, drinking wine isn’t a good thing?” I asked. She is “only thinking of me,” she said, and suggested, I go down to the Senior Center and ha not with the fellas.

As I look forward to the 70 th reunion of the Holdenville High School graduating class of 1953 in 2023, it is with great sadness that I realize that one of my good buddies, Jerry Fleming, will not be with us with his clever stories and not always enjoyable pranks.

Quote of the week…“Happiness is inward not outward; and so it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.” —CC— These are challenging times. We must remember that even though it seems the world is crumbling, we don’t have to be a crumb in the midst of the crumbling.

Since I am not in the classroom anymore, I don’t have any reason to dread, fear, acknowledge or otherwise survive April Fool’s Day. It just simply isn’t on my busy retired schedule this year. It’s pretty profound.