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Lets not forget little Kristin, from Broken Arrow...........




Kristin Chenoweth performs "What Would Dolly Do?" at the Grand Ole Opry - YouTube

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Brigadier General Stand Waite- Honey Creek, Indian Territory. Cherokee Statesman.

Stand Watte was the last standing CSA General to surrender his troups at the end of he Civil War. He is thought to be full blood Cherokee but there is no proof positive to date. He is buried outside of Grove in NE Oklahoma.

Grove, OK before it was a town, and before Statehood was granted to OK, was a resting place for weary travelers. it was called Round Grove, and several other names before Grove was finally adopted. Today Grove begins several miles south of the Cowskin arm of Grand Lake, NW to Sailboat Bridge SE to the shores of the Honey Creek arm of Grand Lake. The County Seat is several miles SE of Grove on US 59 at Jay. It is believed this is where Stand Watte most likely lived at one time.

Langley, OK has the longest multiple arch dam in the world. It controls flooding on the man-made 44,000 acres Grand Lake that is nearly 66 miles long with 1300 miles of shore lime. Dam tours are free. Call to arrange large group tours.

Harbor Village, the largest antique mall in the world, is a recreated turn-of-century town build on 33 acres on the shores of Grand Lake.

Lendonwood Gardens at Grove is most unusual. Dr. Leonard Miller created a Japanese garden that featured plants that commonly only grow in Japan and the Pacific Northwest. He added a building to house the Koi fish he raised for his pond in his garden. Lendonwood garden is where Dr. Miller developed a new variety of rhododendron. If you like plants it's a spectacular garden wth some very unexpected surprises.

I interviewed Miller years ago and I asked him what the biggest was problem in the garden. I expected to learn about an exotic bug. "Heron", he said, "they like my Koi." What I learned was that some of the colorful fish, that are no bigger than a man's hand, can sell for $10,000 each. He also talked a great deal about how difficult it was to find the right medium in which to grow Japanese plants in the blazing OK heat.

One of 12 botanical gardens in Oklahoma, Lendonwood Gardens is also a Natural Display Garden for the American Hemerocallis Society (daylily) and offers the Midwest’s largest collection of chamaecyparis trees and rhododendrons. Miller's other gardens are Satsuki Garden in Grove and Elk Ridge Garden: http://www.elkridgegarden.com/Miller.pdf

The Cayuga Church was built in 1886 by Seneca Chief Mathias Splitlog for his Catholic wife. The bronze bell, cast in Belgium, was first rung at her memorial service in 1894. It is believed this was the first Catholic Church erected in Delaware County. It is the only church in the U.S., built by a Native American with his own hands, using his own funds, "for the religious use of all". Today it offers a non-denominational service on Sunday beginning at 8:30am.

The GRDA (Grand River Dam Authority) was the first to electrify NE OK in the 1930s. Today power generated is sold to neighbor states. The electric co-op is still member owned. It serves the south side of Grand Lake south of the Honey Creek Arm of the lake and beyond.

What many don't quite "get", is there are more than just a few very brainy guys and gals that in the Native State. OK is okay!