[peggydavis]

Catching up on my posting:

Okmulgee is a nice town. We just drove through on highway 75.



Creek Nation Center



Center of the highway 75 business district





Looking toward downtown



Saturday afternoon at the car wash





I wanted to look at that old hot rod, but noooooo.

[andthentherewere3]

My grandparents used to live in Okmulgee, but died several years ago. I haven't been there in 15 years. Thanks for the pictures to remind me!

[Cali_Okie_Girl]

looks like a nice town

[Crosstimbers Okie]

Wow! You mean there are trees in Oklahoma?

[eddie gein]

Thanks for the pics. I noticed a sirloin stockade restaurant. I hadn't seen one of those in years.

I always felt sorry for that franchise because Roger Dale Stafford pretty much ruined that franchise in Oklahoma with those murders in OKC.

Glad to see they are still around.

Okmulgee is one of very few towns in Oklahoma that I have not at least driven through.

[peggydavis]

If you ever drive through you should stop and eat there. We always do. I like their salad bar.

Roger Dale Stafford made me more wary of stopping to help people with car trouble.

[Running Thunder]

I grew up in Savannah, GA. My Great Grandfather was Creek and they changed his name and race on my Grandma's birth certificate because of people's attitudes, in North Western, GA in 1918. I have always been a spiritual person and a Christian since I was 6 yrs old.

I shall always remember the first time I visited the Ocmulgee Indian Mounds near Macon, GA. I felt like I was home, comfortable and at peace. I don't know if this meshes with Christianity, but I felt connected with the land. Every time I went thereafter, I felt the same way.

Years later, I married my wife, who is from Chickasha, OK (her Father is half Kiowa). I went with her to her family reunion in Tishamingo, visiting Mount Scott, the wildlife preserve and other places in Oklahoma. Standing on Mt. Scott, I felt the same connection with the land as I had in Macon, GA. I felt at home, there. It was as though there was a magnet in that ground, pulling my feet into the soil, like the roots of a tree. If I had had the money, I would have gone back to Savannah for my stuff and moved to OK.

I never understood what connection my heart could have to these places, until we attended Powwow at Cherokee, NC. We watched the "Unto These Hills" drama. After this I did some research and found my ancestral connection to both Ocmulgee in Macon, GA and Oklahoma. Like I say, I am not sure how Christian it is, but I can't ignore the strong feelings I felt.

[StillwaterTownie]

Originally Posted by eddie gein

Thanks for the pics. I noticed a sirloin stockade restaurant. I hadn't seen one of those in years.

I always felt sorry for that franchise because Roger Dale Stafford pretty much ruined that franchise in Oklahoma with those murders in OKC.

Glad to see they are still around.

Okmulgee is one of very few towns in Oklahoma that I have not at least driven through.

Wow, you been missing a lot. We have a Sirloin Stockade in Stillwater that serves buffet style. On Saturday and Sunday it adds breakfast hours. A great place to go if you want to hog.

[PennyQuilts]

Originally Posted by Running Thunder

I grew up in Savannah, GA. My Great Grandfather was Creek and they changed his name and race on my Grandma's birth certificate because of people's attitudes, in North Western, GA in 1918. I have always been a spiritual person and a Christian since I was 6 yrs old.

I shall always remember the first time I visited the Ocmulgee Indian Mounds near Macon, GA. I felt like I was home, comfortable and at peace. I don't know if this meshes with Christianity, but I felt connected with the land. Every time I went thereafter, I felt the same way.

Years later, I married my wife, who is from Chickasha, OK (her Father is half Kiowa). I went with her to her family reunion in Tishamingo, visiting Mount Scott, the wildlife preserve and other places in Oklahoma. Standing on Mt. Scott, I felt the same connection with the land as I had in Macon, GA. I felt at home, there. It was as though there was a magnet in that ground, pulling my feet into the soil, like the roots of a tree. If I had had the money, I would have gone back to Savannah for my stuff and moved to OK.

I never understood what connection my heart could have to these places, until we attended Powwow at Cherokee, NC. We watched the "Unto These Hills" drama. After this I did some research and found my ancestral connection to both Ocmulgee in Macon, GA and Oklahoma. Like I say, I am not sure how Christian it is, but I can't ignore the strong feelings I felt.

"We know we belong to the land..."

[stillkit]

Okmulgee doesn't seem to have changed all that much since I lived there in 1958, except that the road to Henryetta is four lane and that stinkin' oil refinery is gone.