| Frontier Country Museum Crescent, Logan County, Oklahoma |
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| F.C.H.S. Museum P. O. Box 856 Crescent, Oklahoma 73028 (405) 969-3660 -Telephone (405) 969-3704 -Fax This page was updated: 27-Feb-2006 � 2001-2006 Frontier Country Historical Society Crescent, Logan County, Oklahoma Website design by: Marv Hawkins |
| Museum Hours Monday-closed Tues-Saturday-10am-4pm Sunday-1-4pm |
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| Capturing the Times of Oklahoma |
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| On June 25th, at the Blue Bird Farm (Northeast of Crescent) 53 Museum volunteers received special recognition for their faithful service, time, efforts and money to preserve and promote the legacy of early Oklahomans, through our Frontier Country Museum. The event was hosted by Phil and Frances Macy, owners of the Centennial Farm. Over 100 volunteers were invited to attend, but many were unable to attend. Those in attendance received special recognition and certificates of appreciation. A special thanks to those who prepared the excellent meal, and to the Macy's for hosting the occasion. And a very special thanks to all the volunteers of the Frontier Country Museum who work so hard to keep the past alive and well and within our midst. One of the most grievous mistakes we can make as we march on into the future is forgetting from where we have come in the past. |
| Volunteer Appreciation Picnic - Honoring our Museum Volunteers |
| One of the highlights of the evening was a mystery guest, who arrived in the character of Carrie Nation, the hatchet lady of Kansas, who in the early part of the century was aggressive vocally and with her hatchet in seeking to halt the sell, distribution and drinking of alcohol. |
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| The presentation by Ms. Stewart was both informative and entertaining, as the methods and reasons for the work of Carrie Nation were described. Ms. Erma Stewart, a retired educator, now performs various historical reenactments such as the character of Carrie Nation, and she also performs as Eleanor Roosevelt and does book reviews and read- ings. She has been active in this endeavor since 1998. |
| Vickey talks with Marv (Photo by Deann Lewis) |
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| Standing at nearly 6 feet tall and 180 pounds, Carry Amelia Moore Nation, Carrie Nation, as she came to be known, presented an imposing figure. Wielding a hatchet, she was downright frightful. In 1900, the target of Nation's wrath was alcoholic drink. Nation, who described herself as "a bulldog running along at the feet of Jesus, barking at what He doesn't like," felt divinely ordained to forcefully promote temperance. A brief marriage to an alcoholic in the late 1800's fueled Nation's disdain for alcohol. Kiowa, Kansas, was the setting of Nation's first outburst of destruction in the name of temperance in 1900. |
| Erma Stewart as Carrie Nation, (Photo by Deann Lewis) |
| Between 1900 and 1910 she was arrested some 30 times after leading her followers in the destruction of one water hole after another with cries of "Smash, ladies, smash!" Prize-fighter John L. Sullivan was reported to have run and hid when Nation burst into his New York City saloon. Self-righteous and formidable, Nation mocked her opponents as "rum-soaked, whiskey-swilled, Saturn-faced rummies." While Carrie Nation was certainly among their most colorful members, the members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, founded in 1874, left more in their wake than strewn glass. Once the largest women's organization in the country, the WCTU concerned itself with issues ranging from health and hygiene, prison reform, and world peace. (Click and read more about Carrie A. Nation) |
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