– Sarah Bernhardt
Copyright Beth Parker Art 2012
This wonderful little gazebo is the center of attention during many festivals and events in Eufaula, Oklahoma. Tomorrow Clark Davis will be doing his DJ bit from the gazebo during the Eufaula Area Arts Council’s Art Walk and Car Show. The car show will be at Posey Park.
This is the 7th Art Walk that the EAAC has hosted in Eufaula. This year the Chamber of Commerce is also hosting a chili cook-off and there will be a golf cart parade at 1:00. Mike Rogers from KFOX will be doing a live radio broadcast from 1:30 to 3:30. They are even working on a 10 x 10 chalk drawing at Main and Foley, near the chili cookers, all day.
Our Favorite Place will be open from 9 am. to 5 p.m. Saturday. Portrait artist, Monica Brown will be present drawing portraits on the hour every hour. There are still 3 slots left.. If you like the portrait, you will be able to purchase it for $75. Kim Bultman will also be present playing the piano. They will have coffee, hot chocolate, spiced chai tea and homemade sweets from Made With Love Bakery all day!
Other artists who will be present include: Cheryl Smith, Molly
Drog, Lynn Melton, Cindy Gooding, Donna Pearce, Beth Parker and Betty
Knight.
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Alexanader L. Posey was born in the Creek nation about eight miles from where the town of Eufaula, Oklahoma, now stands, August 3, 1873.
Alex was to show marked genius in human understanding and an unusual
comprehension of the beauty of the soul and the spirit. He was a child
of happy disposition, carefree and playful. He grew into manhood with
Tom, a full blood, whom his father had adopted. Alex tells in one of his
stories about the Creek prophet and medicine man, Chologee. He and Tom
had on one occasion placed a dead snake in the path where the old man
would have to pass. They waited in hiding to see if he would be
frightened.2 This story and other similar ones were evidences of the wit
and humor which made him popular with his companions. More…
About Sarah Bernhardt
Sarah Bernhardt, the French stage and silent film actress known as the Divine Sarah, was born in Paris in 1844 as Rosine Bernard, the illegitimate daughter of a Jewish courtesan. She began her acting career at age 13 and quickly rose to international stardom. Oscar Wilde wrote the play Salome for her. After her right leg was amputated in 1915, she continued to perform onstage with a prosthetic limb. She was very close to her only child, her son Maurice. She died in 1923.
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