Ancient History

There's a lot of old stuff at CGsF. Like the Romans, we have some really old infrastructure that you might find in a museum. Until recently, we boasted of knob-and-tube wiring, a 40-year-old AC, and a fabulously rusty cast iron pipe that took (most) of the water from the washing machine. Some old stuff is hip and groovy, for example a stove that has a griddle and a Thermo-well. Other old stuff is just old. Like Meta Cranky Girl.

Then there's the category of Educational Old Stuff. Cranky Girls 1 and 2 are seated on a thingy that allows you to actually SIT behind your plow, rather than have to walk behind it. I'm sure it was the IPod Touch or the IPhone 3G of its day. This implement lives at the Chisholm Trail Museum in Kingfisher with very many of its farm implement friends.

One of the very cool things about this museum, besides its three dozen flavors of candy sticks, is that it not only has Educational Old Stuff. It also has a whole block of Educational Old Buildings. A school. A bank. A jail. A church (more on this later). A blacksmith shop. And two log cabins. The log cabin pictured below is of particular interest to Cranky Girls because it was owned by the Cole family. Meta Cranky is sure she will be corrected if she gets this wrong, but she thinks that it was the home of her mother's great-grandmother. That would be the 3rd-great grandmother of Crankies 1 and 2. That's a lot of history, and quite a bit of crankiness.

Lydia sat on an iron bed in this small cabin and thought about being in a place where her long-ago grandmother had lived. 

Harmony Church was our family's church for many years, until it closed in the 1970s. If you get us going, we can tell you stories about Uncle Michael singing Silent Night there as a wee tot, or about Dora, a notable minister who served the church during WW2. 

It looks like an Educational Old Building, but we still know lots of people who think of it as part of their family, too.

--MCG