After attending church on Sunday morning in Fayetteville, AR, we drove westward and came to Tulsa, OK. Here we stayed with Conrad and Winifred Coussens, who are self-styled "Okies" and who were marvellous hosts. This was yet another stop during which we made fast friendships with our Evergreen hosts, and regretted that we had not scheduled a longer stay.
On the way west on Monday June 1st. we stopped in that the Will Rogers museum and we spent a very pleasant couple of hours touring it while looking at the artifacts of his life and the records of his untimely death in 1935 . He was a genuine American folk hero, and his statement about never having met a man he didn't like seems to resonate with the qualities of an earlier and less complicated time in American life.
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