Hello Teachers and Students,

      This morning we left Tulsa and traveled to Boatman, OK, a town that disappeared years ago. . . but the cemetery is still there.
      In the cemetery we looked for the grave site of a young woman.   A woman who heroically gave her life to save the life of a four year old nephew.  She was twenty three years old and had been married for less than one year.
      She was a "migrant " in  1940. . . an "Okie."  She was traveling Route 66 from Clinton, OK, to the San Joaquin Valley, Calif., for a better life.   Thirty - two miles west of Albuquerque, New Mexico, there was a car accident, and she was killed.  She was Mr. Gwartney's aunt.  Mr. Gwartney was nine months old, and he was sitting on his mother's lap.  This is one of many stories of the "Okies"  traveling Route 66 in the 30's and 40's. 
      We will be sharing the rest of this story and many others when we travel the  "Mother Road," in the spring of 2004.  

      
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     Teachers in the PAST Lane
                                                                          
Mr. Gwartney
 Mrs. Miller
 Mrs. Carter

P.S. 
 Check out the price of gasoline.