Fort Gibson

We specialize in building homes in the northeast of Oklahoma, kind of from the east of Tulsa, pretty much up to the Tulsa Metro, around the Roconero, Coweta, Wagner, Owasso area.

and then east over through the Arkansas line down to about Fort Gibson.

We're kind of just based in the roots of honesty, integrity, and craftsmanship, building just absolute solid home from the ground up, and then just really relying into our heritage.

Our heritage, our background, is kind of what makes us different.

And in the last year, he's played in Oklahoma and Big Fish and went on to the Jimmy Awards in New York after winning the Discovery Award for Northeastern Oklahoma.

He's a five-year alum of the Kristen Chenoweth Broadway Boot Camp, a recent graduate of Fort Gibson High School, and he's heading to the University of Michigan this fall to study music theater, one of the most competitive programs in the country.

Today, we talk about the journey so far, the whirlwind of the Jimmys, and the big future ahead.

Oklahoma On Stage family, please join me in welcoming Easton Wicks to the podcast.

The rest is history.

You know, I've loved it ever since.

I've been in every production Fort Gibson has had since my dawn of time.

And Big Fish was my last one.

Why are you putting us down so was maybe my favorite part of that.

When's the last time, or if ever, I don't know, in Fort Gibson, they still might say things like, why are you putting us down so?

Yeah, you may hear that every now and then.

We can't do nothing.

I don't think it would have been in Tahlequah because Tahlequah was too small.

Maybe it was Muskogee or all the way over in Fort Gibson.

But he went to the dealership and he bought himself a Model T.

And they told him when he bought it at the dealership, they said, now this is starter oil.

Achille? Achille? Hmm.

Fort Gibson, Yukon, Oklahoma City.

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... because everybody makes fun of that.

Fort Gibson.

Yeah.

And, uh, he had track speed.

Choking on a corn dog, just the headline looks totally different than choking on a French dip sandwich.

Yeah, I think all your buddies back in Fort Gibson would have a lot of fun with that if that's the way that you left us.

If that's how I go, please insert all the jokes at my funeral, please.

God, Ben Lehman doing the eulogy after that, could you imagine? That would be amazing.

When he was three, his father deserted.

Ellen sent the children to relatives at Fort Gibson, Indian Territory, the place they had a right to be, and stayed with the cavalry.

At some point in the early 1880s, Ellen sent Crawford to an Indian school in Cherokee, Kansas, and then to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania.

Founder Richard Henry Pratt's mission, kill the Indian, save the man.

Students forbidden from speaking their languages, given Anglo names, Anglo dress, trained in trades.

Crawford returned to Fort Gibson at around 12 or 13.

His mother had remarried.

He and the new husband did not get along.

And when, as is contemplated, they shall have been furnished with a plentiful supply in this article, together with a sufficient stock of domestic animals, they will be in possession of every physical advantage that can add to their external comfort and happiness.

The Creeks settled in the immediate vicinity of Fort Gibson comprise the first settlers under Macintosh.

They dwell in good, comfortable farmhouses, have fine gardens, orchards, and raise forty to fifty thousand bushels of corn more than what is sufficient for their own consumption.

They furnish large quantities to the commissariat at Fort Gibson annually and contributed greatly in supplying the late immigrants.

They raise also more stock than is necessary for their own use and carry on a considerable trade with the garrison in grain, stock, vegetables, poultry, eggs, fruit, etc.

There are several traders located among them to furnish their wants, which are as many and various as those of the most comfortable livers of our own citizens.

The produce of the farms is corn, oats, potatoes of both kinds, beans, peas, pumpkins, and melons.

The great profit of a Cherokee farmer is his corn, his horses, his cattle, and his hogs.

OK, so he killed Father Six Minute Ball.

He earned the nickname Pistol Pete as a teenager after out shooting cavalry marksmen at Fort Gibson.

Students spotted him riding in a 1923 parade in Stillwater and decided he was the perfect symbol for the school instead of the old Tigers mascot.

So the official costume version debuted in 1958.