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BABY NEW YEAR

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Publisher’s Letter

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Spotlight: Baby New Year 1934

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Feature: Baby Oh Baby

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Ancient Lore Reborn in Bartlesville Bartlesville’s Baby New Year

January Events Calendar

Find out What’s Happening This Month!

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Out & About: Photos from Around Town

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The Arts: Jessica Holeman

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Business: Platinum Salon

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Profile: Charlotte Blood Smith

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Passages: Happy Birthday Bartlesville!

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Last Call: Price Tower Celebrates 60 Years

Salon Boutique in Downtown

Celebrating 119 years

Visit the studio of a local assemblage artist

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Publisher’s Letter At the onset of 2016, bMonthly brings you a look at our city that spans the generations. Included in this month’s issue we have our largest Baby New Year Contest to date! Over the course of three days in December, moms, dads, cousins and friends all collaborated to bring over 70 babies to be photographed at Andrea Mann’s studio. Each year the contest has grown, and each year I find it incredibly fun to meet, and briefly get to know some of the future citizens of Bartlesville. bMonthly also gives all of us a chance to peek into the lives of many of our treasured longtime residents. This month’s profile features Charlotte Blood Smith. At 83, she has been a writer and resident in the Bartlesville area for all of her career. As with many professions, it is fascinating to think of how her career has unfolded since the middle of the 1900s. I am so thankful for the people who come forward to share ideas with me each month. Whether it be a writer submitting an unsolicited story, one of our regular writers suggesting an idea, or a member of the community sharing their thoughts with me in conversation, it is all welcome and always interesting.

Just over five years have passed since the beginning of bMonthly. I look back at some of the first issues and I am impressed that we pulled it together from nothing and also that our assessment of the need has proven to be valid.

Bartlesville is a stand out in the sea of communities its size and after a discussion with one of our writers last month, I think we are both on a subtle mission to find evidence of another community that has anything remotely similar. You would think with google and Wikipedia it would be easy to plug in some stats and keywords that would give you a glimpse of another group plodding along on a similar parallel with us, but it’s tough to find… We’ve got something special and I’m honored to possess a vehicle that brings our story to you!

Of the many changes in store for Bartlesville in 2016, some will take us by surprise and some we know are on the horizon. As we embark on this journey together, I look forward to bringing the culmination of these events into your awareness. By the close of 2016, I’m sure we will again be baffled by how fast the time has gone and grateful that we have an amazing place to call home.

Happy New year and be kind to yourself!

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ABOUT THE COVER: It’s difficult to narrow from over 70 babies to just one for the cover! This year’s Judges Choice Cover Baby exemplifies the new year in traditional Baby New Year fashion! Congratulations Keaton!

Cover design by PDG+creative

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BABY NEW YEAR 1934

Ancient Lore Reborn in Bartlesville

by Damon Isaacs

New Year’s Day represents new beginnings, and the New Year is heralded by fireworks, parties and those late night events. For many, January 1 is a day of recovery from the previous night’s party and watching football games on television. The New Year also causes people to make promises to change or improve.

In many cities the birth of the first baby in the New Year is celebrated and in cultures around the world, the New Year is often personified as a baby. Historians believe that Baby New Year originated in 600 B.C. in Greece. The Greeks believed that the god of fertility and wine was reborn each year as the spirit of good fortune. Over time, this baby represents the birth or rebirth of the new year and the closure of the previous one.

The myth is that Baby New Year starts off as an infant, but ages quickly through the year until he is elderly in December. Some stories even say that Baby New Year becomes Father Time. In modern times, Baby New Year is usually wearing nothing more than a diaper and a top hat, with an occasional sash depicting the year.

Each year bMonthly celebrates this new beginning with a contest to select Bartlesville’s Baby New Year. The Bartlesville community chose its first Baby New Year in 1934. That baby, George Konstantino Galanis, Jr., (pictured above) turns 82 on this New Year’s Day. He’s the son of the late George Konstantino Galanis, Sr. and Lena (Pomeroy) Galanis. The Galanis family was co-owners of the Blatz Café a popular

Bartlesville’s first New Year’s Baby, George Galanis Jr. with his parents George and Lena Galanis. c1934.

Photo courtesy of the Galanis family.

Bartlesville restaurant that was in business for 35 years.

George Jr. worked in the Blatz Café before and after school during his youth. At one point, he decided that the restaurant business was not for him and sought a new opportunity. He became a deliveryman for the Crystal Ice Plant and worked there through high school. He attended Oklahoma A & M (now Oklahoma State University) where he received a degree in Marketing.

Galanis was employed for 42 years with Reda Pump Company, which later became Schlumbeger. He then married Bonnie Louise (Dixon) Loper in August 1961. George Jr. says of his wife, “Bonnie and I were married for 50 years. She was very instrumental in my career success. We traveled and lived in several countries. She was always willing to travel with me, when she could.” The life story of Galanis is rich with family, athletics, strong work ethic, service to his country and community. It is a testimony that beginnings bring opportunity in a community like Bartlesville. “I love Bartlesville,” Galanis says, “If I had my choice to live anywhere, I would choose Bartlesville without a doubt.”

The babies that fill the pages of this issue have opportunity ahead of them. Their lives will be shaped by their experiences and our community will be shaped by their lives. A congratulation to Bartlesville’s Baby New Year 2016 and also a Happy Birthday to Baby New Year 1934, George Galanis! v

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Baby New Year Titus 2016 Reader’s Choice

With many thanks... bMonthly wants to express our appreciation to Andrea Mann Photography for taking beautiful photographs of all these adorable babies.

We also want to thank Truity Credit Union for their sponsorship of our Baby New Year contest since it’s beginning in 2012. And lastly, thank you to all of the families who participated in our contest, sharing with the world pictures of their darling children. Happy 2016 to all of you!

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Abigail

Amelia

Angel

Annabell

Annalay

Anniston

Aria

Aries

Arlo

Aubree

Aurelius

Axton

Belen

Bentlee

Blake

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Braxton

Carter

Channing

Chloe

Christopher

Clifton

Colten

Cooper

Damien

David

Ella

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Emma

Enslie

Eric

Ezekiel

Freda

Gracelyn

Hadley

Hope

Jax

Jerrick

Joel

John

Johnny

Kai

Kamoor

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Kellan

Kimber

Korbyn

Kruze

Landry

London

Lucas

Lydia

Mark

Mason

Melanie

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Nathan

Nora

Olivia

Paige

Paisley

Paisley

Paxton

Rose

Sawyor

Snow

Tucker

Tyrus

Wyatt

Tristan

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Friday, January 1

10:00 AM

Lyon Gallery - Babb Estate Fine Art featuring Larry Babb

10:00 AM

Open House Elder Care

Bartlesville Community Center

Take behind-the-scenes tour of Elder Care.

A Smithsonian listed artist, and classified

Enjoy coffee and a pastry while getting

as an impressionist, some paintings are

all your questions answered. All are

Meditation

more realistic and some defy classification.

welcome. No RSVP required.

Tri County Tech mindfulness, walking, and guided

oils, and acrylics, to bas-reliefs in Marbolite.

Figure paintings are in a technique called Scrafito scratch. On display through January 30th.

First Friday live Music Copper Bar – Price Tower

10:00 PM

Painted Horse Bar & Grille

Bartlesville. For more information contact

The Bartlesville debut of The Hosty Duo, one

918.766.4673

Wednesday, January 6

of Oklahoma’s most popular acts.

Monday, January 4

of all ages. Be prepared with a song--Can be a capella or with backing track. No more that 3 minutes please.

7:00 PM

Frank & Lola’s

Osage Casino

All interested in participating in Vocal Groups

This new class will be held Mondays and

Tuesday Night Trivia

Another Alibi

Everett Music Studio 1024 Renick Lane

Hopestone Center

visualization will be explored. Tuition $39, drop-ins welcome at $5.

at 120 Frank Phillip Blvd. Downtown

9:00 PM

Auditions for Everett Music Studio Groups

Evening Yoga with Bee.

The Hosty Duo

Quirky, fun, stomping good times! This is a

10:00 AM

5:00 PM

Fridays from 5-6pm. Hopestone is located

don’t miss event!

Saturday, January 2

5:15 PM

A variety of meditation styles, including

Color and texture very from watercolor to

8:00 PM

incorporated. Enjoy music from the 1940s through the early 2000s. Tuition $39

9:00 AM

Tuesday, January 5 10:30 AM

Tabata Tri County Tech

Bartlesville Public Library

with a cardio and strength workout

meeting room A.

designed to blast away fat and calories!

Prevention – The Core of Everything.” This

Tuition $39, drop-ins $5.

Core Training “Core Training/Injury

Spectrum Connect Art by David Lawrence Cade

workshop will include a demonstration and

Bartlesville Public Library

activity on properly using stretch bands

art exhibit January 4 – January 30

and cords. with Washington County Health

(approx. 20 large new abstract works )

Department, Renetta Harrison.

connections between imagery and space.

Maximize results while minimizing your time

5:15 PM

Stretch and Tone Tri County Tech

in Bartlesville Public Library main lobby showcase. Abstract oil and collage exploring

5:00 PM

Work on muscle tone using basic

4:00 PM

Throwback Dance Party

calisthenics such as pushups, crunches, and planks.

Tri County Tech

All skill levels welcome. Tuition $39, drop-

This class is primarily a dance-based

ins welcome at $5.

aerobics class but will have toning aspects

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Tuesday, January 7

the planning and preparation, allowing

up. For more info call us at 918-333-7270

powerful, yet straightforward questions.

volunteers to just show up and sign-up for

or email at stageartdance@gmail.com.

Join us as we go through these thought

1st Be Active Series “Enjoy Healthy Food That Tastes Great,” with Gale Mills, OSU Extension.

a project.

provoking questions. Lunch served. $25

If you would like to volunteer, meet at 9:15

per person.

10:00 AM

a.m. at the Bartlesville Community Center

Bartlesville Public Library

the second Saturday of every month to do

meeting room A

a volunteer project for a local nonprofit. Get

5:30 PM

updates on Facebook

5:15 PM

Women’s Cancer Support Group with a licensed counselor.

Tri County Tech

Free to cancer patients and survivors.

Hopestone Center

Mommy/Daddy and Me Yoga Bring Mom or Dad along & explore some fun

Located at 120 Frank Phillips Blvd. Contact

poses together! It’s a perfect way to

918.766.4673 for more information.

introduce exercise techniques to little ones.

For ages 4-6 years. Tuition $39

6:00 PM

Friday, January 8

8:00 PM

Winter Landscape featuring Bruce Golf Tower by Steven Graham

Mid Century to Modern

Painted Horse Bar & Grille

Local artist, Steven Graham, will guide you

10:00 AM

Karaoke

Tri County Tech step-by-step through creating your own

Price Tower

masterpiece of the famed Bruce Goff Tower

Drawing from Price Tower’s private

set in beautiful Sooner Park. $35

collections, a variety of table settings

10:00 PM

– holiday formal, casual buffet, patio barbeque, and park picnic – will serve to

Green Corn Rebellion

display a wide selection of mid-century

Frank & Lola’s

dinnerware, glassware, utensils, and

A 9-piece menagerie of swampy, delta rock.

Tuesday Night Trivia Painted Horse Bar & Grille

serving pieces including those by national

Big voices, great instrumentation and a

designers Russel Wright

scientific marvel considering this large band

(1905-1976), Edith Heath (1911-2005). Both

fits in the FnL’s corner!

designers were revered in their time.

Monday, January 11

6:00 PM

Pizza, Paint and Pop

7:00 PM

Thursday, January 14 5:30 PM

United Way Victory Celebration Be present when the grand total raised

2:00 PM

during the 2015 campaign is revealed! Be

6:00 PM

Oil Painting with Kate from 2-4pm.

the Face of Change. RSVP to Mary Kay

It’s a kid sized paint and pour! All materials

Paint & Pour at Hopestone Center.

Hopestone Center

Marshall at 918.336.1044

are provided. After pizza your kiddos learn

Hopestone Center

This class is open to everyone and the

to paint wintery snow men at Hopestone

All materials are provided. Whether you

fee is $10 per person. Materials will be

Center. The Center is located Downtown

are an experienced painter or you’ve never

provided. Cancer patients are free.

at 120 Frank Phillips Blvd. The class

picked up a brush, bring you’re friends,

is $20 per child. Cancer patients and

enjoy a couple glasses of vino and paint

survivors are free. For more information call

away! The event will be held from 6-9pm

918.766.4673.

and is $40 per person. Cancer patients and

Hopestone Center

survivors are free. Located at 120 Frank

Saturday, January 9 9:15 AM

Phillips Blvd. For more information contact 918.766.4673.

Tuesday, January 12 11:30 AM

Free Class Friday

Tri County Tech Campus (main building)

for any experience level, ages 6 and up! To RSVP or for more info contact us at: 918-

What’s the difference between a dreamer

333-7270 or stageartdance@gmail.com

7:00 PM

Glow Party

United Way is proud to promote

Stage Art Dance

and someone who achieves a dream?

volunteerism in the Bartlesville area. The

Come join us as we ring in the new

CityServe Advisory Committee does all

semester! Anyone welcome, ages 10 and

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Stage Art Dance

Bartlesville Community Center

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Happy Birthday Bartlesville!

Dr. John Maxwell - Put your dream to the test.

6101 Nowata Rd.

CityServe

Friday, January 15

According to best selling author Dr. John Maxwell, the answer lies in answering ten

Come join us for a FREE DANCE CLASS

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Saturday, January 16 8:30 PM

Live Music with Signal 29 Painted Horse Bar & Grille

Tuesday, January 19 6:00 PM

Intro to Spanish

at 110 E. 2nd Street. Class is $8 and lasts 90 minutes.

10:00 AM

words and phrases, the correct Spanish

2nd Be Active Series, “Quick, Healthy Meals and Snacks,” with Gail Mills OSU Extension.

pronunciation, and how to pick up practical

Bartlesville Public Library

conversation. Tuition $159.

meeting room A

Tri County Tech Learn how to speak and understand

6:00 PM 6:30 PM

Campaign Finance at the Federal level

One Pot Meals Tri County Tech These delicious & time-saving recipes can

Bartlesville Library Upstairs

be ready to pop into the oven or drop

Program on Campaign Finance at the

into the crock pot, giving you a delicious

Federal level. Sponsored by League of

meal after a busy day. Tuition $39.

Women Voter Bartlesville Area Free.

Painted Horse Bar & Grille

10:00 PM

Dustin Pittsley Band Frank & Lola’s It’s been awhile since DPB made it to FnL’s.

Guitar-Driven raw rock and blues. DPB loves this room so much they released a live record recorded on this corner!

Monday, January 25 6:00 PM

Raised Bed and Vertical Gardening Tri County Tech Gardening above ground level has so many advantages – improved drainage, better control of soil composition, accessibility, and more! Tuition $5.

7:00 PM

Tuesday Night Trivia Painted Horse Bar & Grille

Wednesday,

Friday, January 22 5:30 PM

KLife IceKreme

10:00 PM

Bring your appetites and your ice skates.

Aaron Lee Tasjan Frank & Lola’s Indie Folk Grit. “Tasjan’s words are soaked in spilled whiskey, misunderstood tears and dusty memories. Each tune seeps into the cracks of your troubled soul.”

January 20 11:30 AM

Women in Business with the Chamber Hillcrest Country Club $25 members $35 non members. SpeakerRona Shoopack

Monday, January 18 9:30 AM

Bartlesville YOGA Prana Vinyassa Flow yoga which is suitable for everyone. Through yoga, we nourish a deeper understanding of ourselves by reducing stress and building strength. Held

90 minutes.

Located at 120 Frank Phillips Blvd. Contact

817.681.3072 or visit their website www.

918.766.4673 for more information.

bartlesville.klife.com

Saturday, January 23 8:00 AM

Tri County Tech This class will teach you how to properly

Tri County Tech

will also cover specific programming and

Save money while growing healthful

modifications. Tuition $39.

veggies, beautiful flowers, and flourishing

8:00 PM

Live Music with Telegram Nation

6:00 PM

Not Your Usual Chili Tri County Tech Chili does not take hours and hours to make, nor does it have to be complicated. Join us for chili just the way you like it. Tuition $39.

Spring Break Staycation Ideas with Maria Gus Tri County Tech Take avacation close to home & explore Oklahoma. Class participants will also have

at the Bartlesville Civic Ballet Studio located at 110 E. 2nd Street. Class is $8 and lasts

Hopestone Center Free to cancer patients and survivors.

conduct beginner training movements. We

gardening on the cheap. Tuition $5.

Women’s Cancer Support Group with a licensed counselor.

for Ice Kreme! Contact KLife for details

How to Be a Frugal Gardener

shrubs and trees. Tips from a lifetime of

5:30 PM

We are heading back down to Tulsa

Women and Weights

6:00 PM

Tuesday, January 26

Thursday, January 21

the opportunity to enter to win a weekend getaway somewhere in Oklahoma.$5

9:30 AM 6:00 PM

Martin Luther King JR Day Celebration Westside Community Center The public is invited for fellowship and refreshments

Bartlesville YOGA Prana Vinyassa Flow yoga which is suitable for everyone. Through yoga, we nourish a deeper understanding of ourselves by reducing stress and building strength. Held at the Bartlesville Civic Ballet Studio located

Essential Oils 101 Tri County Tech Learn what essential oils are, how they can be used, why they are used, safety information, and much more. Tuition $9

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recognized skyscraper designed by

Frank & Lola’s

Frank Lloyd Wright. This Black tie event

Wink has become an americana icon and is

features a live and silent auction,

considered one of the best songwriters in the

Tips and Tricks for Healthy Shopping

OK Mozart International Festival 2016 Launch Party

Tri County Tech

Bartlesville Community Center

three course meal, VIP reception with our

midwest. He’s been playing FnL’s for years

We will discuss where the healthiest foods

Artistic Director, Constantine Kitsopoulos,

signature cocktail, all proceeds go

and always plays a great show!

are located, how to read labels, and simple

will announce the festival lineup of concerts

towards the preservation of this national

tricks you may not have thought of. Tuition

and guest artists for the annual event set

landmark and architecture treasure.

$29.

for June 4-11, 2016. Live music, heavy hors d’oeuvres, beer/wine. For tickets call

7:00 PM

Tuesday Night Trivia Painted Horse Bar & Grille

Wednesday, January 27 6:00 PM

918.336.9800 or visit www.okmozart.com

8:30 PM

Live Music with Mark Gibson Painted Horse Bar & Grille

7:00 PM

10:00 PM

Astronomy

Wink Burcham

Tri County Tech

Sunday, January 31 4:00 PM

OLLI@OSU Social Haskell’s Event Space Join us for appetizers and learn about the OLLI lifelong learning program. Meet our instructors and hear about the classes they

Join us and reconnect with one of your neighbors, the sky above your head.

Here’s a quick look at the year of upcoming events!

Canvas Heart Bag

• April Oil Flyer Train Excursion

Tri County Tech

• May Stray Kat Kar Show

Make a love-inspired tote bag just in time for Valentine’s Day. Supply list will be given at

• May Oldies “N” Goodies Car Show

time of enrollment. Tuition $19.

• May Eldercare The Good The Bad and the BBQ

Thursday, January 28

• June Sunfest

10:00 AM

3rd Be Active Series, “Eating on a Healthy Budget” with Gail Mills OSU Extension Bartlesville Public Library meeting room A

• June OK Mozart Tuition $79

Saturday, January 30

• June Antiques and Collectibles Fair & Sale

Children’s Musical Theatre BEGINNING AUDITION Workshop

• July Freedom Fest

• June Woolaroc Kidsfest

9:30 AM

Bartlesville Community Center 9:30am-12pm Workshop helps students who have never auditioned learn how to prepare for an audition. Cost: $5. 918-336-0558 for more info. www.cmtonstage.com

Children’s Musical Theatre Audition Prep “take 2” See yourself video workshop Bartlesville Community Center Advanced audition workshop-take an Encore video of your mock audition on your cell phone. Cost: $5. 918-336-0558 for more

5:30 PM

Free social evening for any 60 or older wanting to learn more about Golden Opportunities. Enjoy music, entertainment and giveaways. No RSVP required.

• July HOT Street Party • Sep Oklahoma Indian Summer • Sep Dewey Western Heritage Weekend • Oct Woolaroc Cow Thieves and Outlaws Reunion

• Oct Kiddie Park Spook-A-Rama • Nov Fantasyland of Lights

info. www.cmtonstage.com

Elder Care

Tournament

• Aug Green Country Rodeo

1:00 PM

Golden Hour

• July Glen Winget American Legion Baseball

• Nov Woolaroc Wonderland of Lights

6:00 PM

Price Tower Gala: Past, Present, Future Celebrating our 60th anniversary This year’s Price Tower gala is an annual

• Dec Kiddie Park Christmas to Remember • Dec Bartlesville and Dewey Christmas parades

fundraiser to support and maintain the only

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Retirement Solutions Let’s Start a Conversation.

918.336.5460

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out & about dewey parade

woolaroc member’s christmas party

bartlesville toy run

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out & about bartlesville christmas parade

6th annual christmas crawl

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PLATINUM SALON

Platinum Salon recently celebrated its one year anniversary of being open at its new location on 315 S Osage. “The year went by really fast, but when you love your job that’s what happens,” said Holly Patten, owner. “We have a good dynamic among our stylists, and we have become family here. We all enjoy working together and that doesn’t always happen.”

Along with Holly, the salon has six other stylists: Carrie Libby, who won the 2015 Best Stylist of the Year in the Examiner-Enterprise; Lynne Bell, who formerly owned Bangs; Danica Moles, Kelly Eisenberger, Charlie Porter and Mark Walker who offers an upscale men’s service with hot towel treatment and beard trimming.

They have a combined total of over 50 years in the industry.

“I bought Studio 5204 from the previous owner back in 2012 when I was only 22,” said Holly. “We quickly outgrew our location off Madison and were looking to move. Coming downtown was the best decision.

Our clients love walking over on their lunch hour. Other people are

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by Lori Esser photo by Lehmer Photography

walking by and noticing us. It’s great to be nestled in with all these other established downtown businesses.”

Being a small business owner is no simple task. Now 25 years old, Holly meets these challenges and delights in the nature of it. “It’s exciting to own your own business,” she said.

“I like being my own boss. I can take time off for my family. It does take discipline, and I had a few doubts in the beginning. This move has been a good step for us and the job is rewarding.”

With the increase of business and new customers, Holly recognizes that it’s her current clients that are her best referrals. “Our clients are good about telling others about this salon because they are pleased here. We still maintain that family atmosphere we had at the other salon. Our clients make themselves at home and feel welcome and comfortable,” she added.

Holly stumbled upon cosmetology after seeing her older sister succeed in the trade. She saw that her sister enjoyed what she was doing

for a living, so when Holly was a junior in high school she attended cosmetology at Tri County Tech.

After graduating high school, she got a job working with her sister and never looked back. “I never thought I’d do this as soon as I graduated, but I fell in love,” Holly explained.

“Now I know it’s all I want to do.

The relationships I develop with my clients are what make it different and fun.”

Holly and the other stylists continue education and host classes at their salon. They serve on the cosmetology advisory board for Tri County Technology. She boasts about the fair prices and talent of the staff and the fact that they take pride in using only use high-end products.

Platinum is a cozy, downtown salon offering a wide variety of services from cuts, color, facial waxing, dermaplaning and Brazilian blowouts.

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CHARLOTTE BLOOD SMITH

by Barbara Shoff Photo by Jeff Hogue Arkansas native, Charlotte Blood Smith, moved to a ten acre patch of Oklahoma farmland, a gift from her father, in 1954. At 83, Charlotte still lives in the house she built over the course of ten years with her own hands. Nails aren’t the only thing Charlotte Blood Smith hammers. There was also her typewriter, and now a keyboard. In 1965 with four children and a sick husband it became apparent she was going to have to earn an income to provide for her family. Writing was something she knew she could do.

Charlotte became a feature writer for the Tulsa World and later a reporter for the Nowata Star. Charlotte said, “The newspapers paid by the column inch. I loved it when a paper or magazine bought a feature story. When the Tulsa World wanted an interview with Robert Shelton, Grand Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America, and couldn’t get one, I told them I 28

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could. They didn’t believe me. I made a call and got the interview. Shelton grew up next door to my cousin back in Alabama in the 1940’s. Robert was one of the neighborhood kids. We all played together growing up.”

Charlotte was contacted by members of the Frank Phillips family to write the exclusive story of Henry Einaga, The Millionaire Butler for the Tulsa World after he died. “Mr. Einaga lived for thirty-six years in a third-story room at the Phillips’ mansion. When he passed, I was contacted and together with Phillips’ family members we sorted through his belongings and discovered he was a millionaire. He must have listened to Frank’s investment advice. There were boxes stuffed with stocks of Japanese companies that were starting up after the war. ” Charlotte’s work has been published in over 150 magazines and papers including The Writer’s Digest,

c1947. Fifteen year old Charlotte with Charlie Horse, who she trained by herself using Prof. Berry’s Mail Course in Horsemanship.

Farm Journal and Field and Stream.

More recently you can find her work in Chicken Soup for the Soul, Farm Talk, Washington County Oklahoma History and the Bartlesville WordWeaver anthology, Seasons of Life.

She has also spent many hours in courtrooms covering everything from crooked politicians to murder.

She claims she’s always had a passion for a good murder mystery and Charlotte recently published a collection of short stories titled Murder, Murder, Everywhere.

“I’m still grateful for the income writing provides,” says Charlotte.

She now takes time between writing articles to complete a work that has been in progress for several years, Slaughter Mountain War. Charlotte states, “It’s a memoir of sorts, with historical links to the depression and World War II. As a kid in Arkansas, when my daddy was off fighting in North Africa, my friends and I used to play out our own drama based on newspaper and radio stories of the war. We lived on Slaughter Mountain and across the creek was Bone Hill.”

Charlotte recalls, “Actually when I started writing for publication it was with a fountain pen on narrow lined notebook paper. I was fifteen and the

reporter for the Northwest Arkansas Riding Club. That was one of the few writing jobs for which I wasn’t paid.”

At a recent meeting of Bartlesville WordWeavers Charlotte assured fellow members , “If you want to be a writer, you’re going to have to take the time to sit down and hammer it out.” And with that, she excused herself from our interview explaining, “I’ve got to get out to Sutton Avian Research Center. I have an article to finish for Farm Talk and I’m on deadline.” v

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CURIOUS RELICS Artist Jessica Holeman

by Katy Holland

photos by Lehmer Photography It’s all fun and gears in the studio of local assemblage artist, Jessica Holeman. The Caney, Kansas native has spent the past five years collecting antique odds and ends, recreating them into original pieces of art.

Expanding on her natural talents in painting and drawing, Holeman found inspiration in the work of another artist and began creating her own assemblage art. Mixing in “a little bit of steampunk,” she creates her “Curious Relics” with assorted mechanical pieces that reflect a sort of Victorian Idealism or retrofuturistic theme.

It wasn’t entirely accidental that her passion for art and for the past were realized in a career. Holeman recalls as a child, helping her historian grandfather cart his artwork to and from shows and fairs. She entered her first art competition at age six, worked her way through various art classes in high school and community college, and became a self-described “jack of all trades.”

“I do a little bit of everything,” she said, from creating store signage to theater sets, to designing merchandise and album covers for her husband’s band – experiences which have lent well to the eclectic work she does now.

Holeman spends her weekends collecting “anything quirky” from yard sales and flea markets. “If it’s broken, not usable anymore, it’s in my bag,” she said. Painting, sculpting, and using her large collection of power tools, Holeman turns her antique finds into whimsical pieces that reflect or sometimes directly incorporate real bits of history. In a gallery piece

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titled “Honeybee Machine,” she included significant names and dates collected from research on the history of honey production.

Being one of the only artists of her kind in the area, her creations have required some explaining to many who didn’t at first understand them.

However, with the steampunk genre growing in popularity, Holeman has enjoyed increasing success.

Upon joining the Bartlesville Art Association only a few years ago, Holeman began entering her pieces in their annual display and competition, winning Best in Show in 2014, a prize she adds to a growing collection of awards. Among other arts and craft shows she does across Kansas and Oklahoma, she has participated in the local OK Mozart Festival the past four years, selling out of nearly all her pieces at the most recent event.

Holeman said a significant portion of her work is specially commissioned. She enjoys being able to easily add personalized features to those pieces, which have included things like a time machine

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that chronicled an individual’s life history and a 50th anniversary piece for a couple’s nutcracker collection.

Her smaller pieces start at $10, while her gallery pieces are usually upwards of $500.

Outside her home studio, Holeman has started several community art initiatives. She founded Art in the Park which focuses on getting public art into the city of Caney. She also volunteers her time teaching local kids different kinds of art that they may not run into in our more rural area.

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The Bartles Mill, photo provided by the Bartlesville History Museum

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BARTLESVILLE! According to a compilation of early families and historic homes, in the 1880s and 1890s, Bartlesville was not exactly a “civilized garden spot.” It was merely a settlement of Native Americans, Indian fur traders, cattlemen, cowboys, farmers, renegades and outlaws. The streets were dusty trails with no sidewalks which became muddy quagmires in the spring when it rained. Its stores and residences were crude wooden slat structures or log cabins with no running water.

In the beginning there were four founders of Bartlesville. In order of arrival they were: Nelson Carr, George Keeler, Col. Jacob Bartles and William Johnstone.

Carr, the first white settler, established an Indian Trading Post at the Black Dog Crossing on the Caney River north of Bartlesville. In 1870, he came downstream and built a grinding mill on the Caney River.

George Keeler was the second white settler. He arrived in 1871 as an Indian trader for Louis Chouteau, he became a member of the Osage Tribe. George married Cherokee Josie Gilstrap. After her death, he then married her cousin, Josie Blythe Cass.

Col. Jacob Bartles was the third white settler to arrive. In 1868, he married a Cherokee widow named Nannie Journeycake Pratt, daughter of the Rev. Charles and Jane Sancia Journeycake. In 1875, Col. Bartles bought Nelson Carr’s mill and built a residence and store next to it. He came to Indian Territory from Kansas and operated the first small store 32

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located at Silver Lake.

The fourth white settler was William Johnstone. He arrived at Coodys Bluff, Indian Territory, where he worked for Henry Armstrong in his general store. After marrying Lillie Armstrong, he moved to Bartlesville and went to work for Jacob Bartles.

In 1884, the two young men employed in Bartles’ store, William Johnstone and George Keeler, decided to go into business for themselves. They erected a building on the south side of the Caney River, at the north end of what is now Delaware Avenue. There, they began operating a mercantile store similar to the one operated by Bartles just across the river. It was this business move that ultimately led to recognition as the builders of the city of Bartlesville.

From a small cattle town and farming community, this progressive little settlement grew, and finally with a push from newspaper editor Harry Jennings, applied for incorporation as a town. Acting as agent for the town, he appeared before the U.S. Court of the Northern District and obtained an order for the town of Bartlesville be incorporated as a part of Indian Territory. On January 15, 1897, Bartlesville was officially declared a town. There were 40 homes, 41 families, 20 businesses and three public buildings.

A year later William Johnstone platted the town site. At that time, it was up to deputy U.S. marshals to keep law and order during the Indian Territory period when whiskey peddlers were the most troublesome

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violators. During Fourth of July and other public celebrations, it’s said that the marshals would tie their hapless prisoners to trees until the celebrations were over, then take them to the federal jail in Muskogee.

T.S. Stewart was Bartlesville’s first mayor. C.R. Keeler was recorder, although a check of city records show that in those days record keeping lacked finesse. They were hand-written and somewhat sketchy.

Bartlesville grew slowly until the drilling of the first oil well in 1898, the Nellie Johnstone Oil Well, which was located in what is now Johnstone Park. That same year saw the arrival of the Santa Fe Railroad from Caney, Kansas to Bartlesville. When the railroad came, the depot was built on the south side of the river, which meant the town itself would be located on the south side—edging Jacob Bartles out. Immediately thereafter, Bartles founded the city of Dewey, naming it after the hero of Manilla Bay, and moved his store to Dewey.

Development of the multimillion-dollar petroleum industry in Oklahoma began in Bartlesville.

Over the following 10 years, the town grew at an astonishing rate with oilmen, wildcatters, drillers, roustabouts, investors and gamblers flocking here for the possibility to strike it rich. In a very short time it became a boomtown and a hub of excitement, with hotels, restaurants, oil companies, banks, businesses and magnificent homes. Life was good in historical Bartlesville and still is today! v

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PRICE TOWER

Celebrates 60 Years

by Charlotte Blood Smith

A birthday celebration will be held on Friday, February 26, not for a famous citizen but for a building; Price Tower. Designed by renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright and commissioned by Oilman H. C. Price, it will turn 60.

When it was constructed in 1956, there were a lot of comments both pro and con among residents as to its acceptance in the community. Its 19 floors made it the tallest building in Bartlesville at the time. This doesn’t count the two stories underground and a foundation that allows the tall, rather slim building to withstand 60-years of Oklahoma winds.“The foundations extend like tree roots to balance the building,” Deshane Atkins-Williams, Price Tower Coordinator, said.

At the time of construction, most of the town and the surrounding countryside could be seen from its windows. Each floor was designed to have office space and apartments with almost all of the furnishings built in. Office space was designed so that neither Price nor his secretary had to move from their chair to perform their tasks. The top floor includes a roof garden, and the windows throughout the building still give extensive views of Bartlesville. In 1960, all of the units except one, were converted to office space only. The interior features are as distinct as the exterior, this is particularly 34

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noticeable in the triangle-shaped elevators. Once inside you see that every turn brings into sight a new facet of the unique appointments of the building.

In addition to the built-on-site furnishings, some walls are finished with one of a kind works of art.

Included are two murals on floors 17 and 19 designed by Wright. The mural in the reception area was done in 1978

by Pauli Lame, an internationally renowned designer and craftswoman. With it’s distinct features too numerous to mention, it’s no wonder Price Tower is part of an exclusive group of Frank Lloyd Wright structures poised to be recognized as UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

On February 10th Price Tower will offer free tours from 5:00pm to 7:00pm. Then Price Tower will host an official birthday party on February 26th, including a Twilight Tour. On this special day, attendees will also be granted access to parts of the building not usually open to the public. This is a great time to get to know the Price Tower! v Price Tower is located at 510 Dewey Ave. To reserve your spot for a free tour on the 10th or to attend the 60th Anniversary Celebration on February 26th, call 918-336-4949.

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