“Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.”
–
Sarah Bernhardt
Copyright Beth Parker Art 2012
Gazebo at Posey Park – 8″ x 10″ Watercolor and Ink
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…
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.
