Summer Work and Summer Fun

Sunday the Levi and Edna Latty clan got together for our yearly reunion. A lot of family and friends came. We had a good time visiting and reminiscing and the children enjoyed playing. It was a hot day and we were grateful for a building with air conditioning. In the early 1900s on the farm […]

Remembering Pappy

My older brothers and sister had many memories of our grandparents Levi and Edna Latty when they and my parents lived on farms at Etta Bend. Pappy had a good sense of humor and the boys were always thinking up ways to play a joke on him. This remembrance is from my brother Thurman Day: […]

Take a Trip in Time

I found it in the shed of my parents’ home  in Tahlequah. It was a strange-looking object; metal and heavy, sort of resembling an axe without the handle. “What is it?” I asked Mom. She seemed surprised that I didn’t know. “Why, it’s an adze,” she said. “What’s it for?” “Papa used one for splitting […]

Cream, Cousins, and Watercress

In the back of my second Etta book, Remembering Etta Bend, I included a section of personal remembrances of life at Etta. These were written by Ma and Pappy Latty’s two surviving children in 1992, Susie Latty Day and Georgia Latty Cochran as well as most of their grandchildren. The following is a remembrance of my sister, […]