[knrstz]

I don't think people realize how many nice lakes we have in the state. I guess it's because they are alll manmade but there is still very high quality water activities for a landlocked state.

[Ecovlke]

Wow, that's a very nice photo. LOL, not too dusty looking to me.

[Goodpasture]

Originally Posted by Ecovlke

Wow, that's a very nice photo. LOL, not too dusty looking to me.

Actually I think it was photoshopped. Someone good turned the dust into green leaves and changed that dusty pothole filled road into an inviting stream............amazing what they can do with computers these days.......

[Elias Graves]

I've moved around a bit. People were always shocked when they learned I'm from here.
"Where's your accent?"
"You seem so well educated."
"You've published in magazines?"

Misconceptions abound. I've been asked about so many stupid things I've lost track of all of them.
That I don't wear boots and a cowboy hat were always baffling to people in the east.

EG

[Farmgirlok]

When I came to Vegas 40+ years ago............a big mistake......wish I had never left Oklahoma, one of my second graders asked me if I had ever been attacked by Indians while living in OK.

[Goodpasture]

Originally Posted by Farmgirlok

When I came to Vegas 40+ years ago............a big mistake......wish I had never left Oklahoma, one of my second graders asked me if I had ever been attacked by Indians while living in OK.

I was attacked by an indian back in Jr HS.........she was well worth remembering.......

[_redbird_]

Originally Posted by Ecovlke

They're doing this on the NM thread and it's fun. What are some of the misconceptions about Oklahoma, goofy or otherwise, that you've come across?

People envision the entire state as flat and dusty. "I didn't know Oklahoma had this many trees!"

LOL, and I had some tourists at our tribal complex in Okmulgee ask me, "Where is all the poverty?" referring to us Native Americans.

When I graduated from Haskell Indian Nations University up in KS, I went to KS State. One time a fellow KSU student asked me, "What kind of food do your people eat on the reservations?"

I laughed.

This was a college student.

[nightbird47]

My neice, husband and three kids are moving to Stillwater in a week. It talked to her on the phone recently and mentioned how cool it is when you drive out of town to see trees and green and no houses. She said they were *very* glad to see that when they came out to rent a house. They thought it was all kind of brown and windy like the desert.

He's going to be teaching some sort of film class at OSU.

[Ecovlke]

[QUOTEHe's going to be teaching some sort of film class at OSU.][/quote]


Well, they will really freak if they drive over to Sallisaw, and see it's not anything like Steinbeck's version.

[linicx]

I believe it was the WPA after the Great Depression that built Grand Lake and made it possiful to electrify NE Oklahoma. It is 60 miles long and you can sail it from tip to tail and also drive across the world's longest multiple-arch dam near Langley. It is anice Sunday afternoon to drive around the lake.

One the ohter end of the state, the Mayor of OKC is in the running for the World Mayor Award this year. Whoo Hoo!

Redbird,

The next time some one aks what you eat on the rez, you might tell them you still hunt buffalo and then send them to Red Earth for an education.

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