I was looking for something in a drawer a week or two ago and came upon my FFA ring from high school. This is a vintage This is a vintage 1966 ring, ordered my freshman year, as I recall, along with my FFA jacket.

Well, Christmas break is over so it’s time to get back to work. I woke up this morning thinking about projects I would like to complete between now and May. My main goals for Town Talk during this time frame are a Bugle Boy Statue in Ed Smalley Centennial Park, a Route 66 miniature golf course on Main Street, the pocket park on Main Street completed, our downtown outlined in lights and a shade awning in Foster Park. I don’t think those goals are too lofty, do you? With everyone working together we can make these things happen.

This is the Sixty-Second article in a semi-permanent column for Stroud Arts that appears in the Stroud American. The mission of these articles is to inform, educate and inspire you, the reader, to Make Art Happen in your life and the life of our community.

I was looking at a photo on the bookcase in our house this week that my wife had framed some time back. Not sure when we retrieved it from my parents’ house.

The Prairie Pointe family has welcomed Leon Williams as the newest member of our family. Leon was born and raised in Stroud by his mom Edith and stepfather Woodrow Sosbee.

I read over the holiday that bluegrass guitar player and singer Tony Rice died. It was a sad day for bluegrass fans in general and guitar players in particular.

This is the Sixtyfi rst article in a semipermanent column for Stroud Arts that appears in the Stroud American. The mission of these articles is to inform, educate and inspire you, the reader, to Make Art Happen in your life and the life of our community.

Town Talk volunteers took a break to enjoy the holidays but plan on getting back in the swing of things as we kick off 2021. Projects we hope to have in place by the time spring rolls around are a shade awning over the playground equipment at Foster Park, a Bugle Boy Statue in Ed Smalley Centennial Park and a Main Street miniature golf course complete with its own train engine.

Thanks to Kindra remembering, we stepped out to the porch Tuesday evening to see the Jupiter and Saturn form the Great Conjunction, aka the Christmas Star. Kindra and I had read reports, which we both knew to be true and factually correct because they were on Facebook, that this same conjunction of two big planets created the Star of Bethlehem that led the wise men to Jesus.

1. Update on “Quapaw 15 Project “Meeker Lake” A.