Oklahoma Heritage Festival
September/October 1995
Don E. Colwell
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Cooking molasses, left to right, Jim Doerksen, Lincoln Emery, Don Colwell, Alvis Lum, Jerry Runnels.
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Superintendent Cache Public Schools 201 West H Avenue Cache,
Oklahoma 73527
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Cache (pronounced Cash, means to store or hide something)
Schools served as host for the Oklahoma Heritage Festival held
September 23 &. 24, 1994. The festival proved to be another
success. It is held every other year on the fourth Friday and
Saturday of even number years. The next festival is scheduled to be
held September 27 & 28, 1996.
To our knowledge, this is the only show of this type to be held
by a school. A number of the tractor and engine shows are having a
student day, which is great and is exactly what should be done.
Remember to be patient with students. There are a lot of you who
think young people should become more involved. It is our
responsibility to contact the schools to make them aware that we
are willing to help and what each of us has to offer.
Here at Cache, we have a number of people who volunteer their
time. Our Ag Mechanics Class has rebuilt four or five tractors and
worked on others in the past few years. Volunteers have given their
time.
We started our festival around 1982 because some people wanted
to share their knowledge and interest in our heritage with our
students. The involvement of our local people has kept it going. We
have had exhibitors from Texas, Kansas and New Mexico, but we
really need more to come share their knowledge and expertise with
us.
Our goals are to get the students out of the classroom to
actually see our history in action. They are always amazed at what
our forefathers could do and how they could do so much with so
little. My hidden goal is to let the youngest know that they
don't have to turn to drugs. They too can make it (life) happen
with what they have.
Some of our exhibitors and exhibits are: sorghum milling and
syrup making, grain grinding, soap making, broom-corn thrashings,
broom making, rope making, wheat threshing and blacksmithing. Some
of the equipment displays include horse drawn wagons, plows,
planters, Lister, hay balers, antique vehicles and one cylinder
engines.
We also have a large collection of household paraphernalia and
other inside exhibits.
This year the unique exhibits included quilting, demonstrated by
local women. Students participated by trying their hand at
quilting. There was also a display of Indian jewelry and story
telling by Shirley Drummond. Also there was story telling by
Cache's own Mr. Dave Titus and Captain Jack Parker, a humorist
from Mt. View, Oklahoma, who kept the students spell-bound by his
tales. The Buffalo Hunting Encampment of El Reno was a new exhibit
and was overrun by interested students .
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