Of course Stratford and Sulphur were part of the Chickasaw Nation, not the Choctaw Nation. Stratford is a wonderful farm community, famous for its peaches. Sulphur is the home of one of the most beautiful parks in the United States. Once called "Platt National Park" but now the Chickasaw National Wildlife Refuge. (By the way, I have never been to the Rush Springs Watermelon Festival, nor the Watonga Cheese Festival. I have been to the Azalea Festival in Muskogee, however.) What I would really like to go to is the Pottawatomi Indian Pow Wow, but it is every July, and it is surely hot out there then. Nalora