Dear Arla, Your activities with the Overstreet Kerr Farm sounds very interesting! I would love to have directions for making sorgham. Would it be possible for you to share that with us? Not that I am going to make it, I would just enjoy knowing how they did that. Thanks, Nita > ------------- > > Subject: Re: [CHAHTA] testing( Isuba Chata) > Date: Fri, 22 Aug 80 14:55:01 PDT > From: "John & Arla Williams" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > > Fay, > Are they part of the Overstreet Family from Keota? I have met several of the Overstreet Family. > For those of you who don't know, the Overstreet Kerr Historical Farm is a homestead that was Chata Allotment land. The homestead was given to the Kerr Foundation to be used as a teaching tool. They have lots of kids and adults come through. We do their fall Farmfest each year in October. We demonstrate 1800's things such as woodwork,basketweaving,soapmaking,sorgum making,etc. > There are a lot of the original things in the house and has the history of the place also. > They have had Chata Pigs,Ponies and had a buffalo last year. Don't know if Jim still has everything now. > The land has a lot of feeling to it when you walk it. > Arla > > ---------- > > Arla, Do you by any chance know Bill and Patsy Overstreet? They live in > > Kountze, TX now but at one time they lived in Victoria, TX and raised > > Appaloosa horses. I know she had one she called Freckles. > > fay

Nita, We do two shows in which they are making sorghum. We also do one at Wetumka,OK on the Seminole Museum Grounds. For many whites and Indians this was sugar as many of you probably know. At Seminole the women make fry bread with sorghum on it. It is almost to die for. The cane is cut and stripped of leaves and then is put into a mill where mules or horses turn the mill to squeeze out the juice. It is then put in shallow vats and cooked. It takes them all day to cook down the juice. The vats have compartments and as it cooks it moves from one compartment to another. At Overstreet it is cooked over a wood fire and I think it is at Seminole too. The smell is wonderful. Arla ---------- > Dear Arla, > > Your activities with the Overstreet Kerr Farm sounds very interesting! I > would love to have directions for making sorgham. Would it be possible for > you to share that with us? Not that I am going to make it, I would just enjoy > knowing how they did that. > > Thanks, > Nita > > > > ------------- > > > > Subject: Re: [CHAHTA] testing( Isuba Chata) > > Date: Fri, 22 Aug 80 14:55:01 PDT > > From: "John & Arla Williams" <[email protected]> > > To: [email protected] > > > > Fay, > > Are they part of the Overstreet Family from Keota? I have met several of > the Overstreet Family. > > For those of you who don't know, the Overstreet Kerr Historical Farm is a > homestead that was Chata Allotment land. The homestead was given to the Kerr > Foundation to be used as a teaching tool. They have lots of kids and adults > come through. We do their fall Farmfest each year in October. We demonstrate > 1800's things such as woodwork,basketweaving,soapmaking,sorgum making,etc. > > There are a lot of the original things in the house and has the history of > the place also. > > They have had Chata Pigs,Ponies and had a buffalo last year. Don't know if > Jim still has everything now. > > The land has a lot of feeling to it when you walk it. > > Arla > > > > ---------- > > > Arla, Do you by any chance know Bill and Patsy Overstreet? They live in > > > Kountze, TX now but at one time they lived in Victoria, TX and raised > > > Appaloosa horses. I know she had one she called Freckles. > > > fay > > > ==== CHAHTA Mailing List ==== > To Unsubscribe: > Send msg. to [email protected] > Put "one" word in "body" of message:... "unsubscribe" without the quotes > Nothing in the subject line... Turn off signatures....... > >