Chikaskia Literary Festival and Tar Creek update
I will be a featured reader at the Chikaskia Literary Festival (Northern Oklahoma College) on October 8, 2021 and will be reading from my new book Once Upon a Tar Creek: Mining for Voices. Am anxious to share the creek’s stories and hope to communicate that although I have written about a specific place, it is a universal story.
LEAD (Local Environmental Action Demanded) Agency in Miami, Oklahoma recently worked hard to obtain an ordinance to grant citizens the right to clean water and a healthy Tar Creek. Over six hundred people signed the petition though not enough signatures were obtained to bring it to the floor of City Council. LEAD folks have been advocates for over twenty years for clean Tar Creek water.
WATER IS LIFE!