Lawton is great with Medicine Park, wildlife refuge, buffalo, longhorn, mountains, lakes, and Indian museums. If not this time maybe something for future. Medicine Park has a growing group of guest cottages and lovely old quaint B&B's. Old Plantation restaurant, old mining memorabilia. Buffalo Bistro and winery. The folks are so friendly and I believe would love to host us sometime for some event. We have old Fort Sill n the post quadrangle and original buildings all totally preserved. Something to think about. Lillian Johnson OWP'81 -----Original Message----- From: Laurie Ward <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:29 am Subject: Re: Writing Marathon What about somewhere like Shawnee, Oklahoma? I'm not aware of many OWP consultants in that area. It might be a way to recruit more people for the future. We could start at the Mabee Gerrer Museum and go to the depot, OBU and St. Gregory's campus, etc.... Plus Sonic and Van's originated in Shawnee...Good Eats! Just an idea. I like the small town idea too Dr. Griffith. :) Laurie Ward ----- Original Message ----- From: Priscilla L. Griffith <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:40:25 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: Writing Marathon I would like to go to a quaint Oklahoma town such as Guthrie, but not necessarily Guthrie since I have been there a lot, but a town like Guthrie. I have very much enjoyed the writing marathons in Gainesville, Texa s when we have taken the Heartland Flyer there during the summer institute, not that I want to go back there. **************************************************************** Priscilla L. Griffith Ruth G. Hardman Chair in Education Director of the Oklahoma Writing Project The University of Oklahoma/The Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education 555 E. Constitution, 118 Building 4 SC Norman, Ok 73072 TEL 405-325-6275/405-325-1498 FAX 405-325-7841/405-325-4061 [log in to unmask] ________________________________ From: Oklahoma Writing Project [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Phelps, Terry [[log in to unmask]] Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 10:35 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Writing Marathon Hey all OWPers, It's about time for a Writing Marathon, don't you think? (Commas are permitted in sentences with tag questions. Ha!) The last marathon we had was in June for the OWP 30th Anniversary, and we had great participation and writing. Where do you want to have it? The June marathon started at the OKC Museum of Art and went to Bricktown. A previous marathon began at the OKC Metropolitan Library, then went to Bricktown and back. Others have meandered around the OU campus and campus corner. When would you like to have it? How about some Saturday in February? What time? Would you like it to be totally freewriting, whatever pops into everyone's head, or starting with prompts? One possibility is writing for another edition of Write Angles, our anthology of teaching ideas, which we haven ’t published in a few years. Please send me your ideas for dates, times, locations, and form. Terry Phelps OWP Class of 1978 -- Laurie Ward Norman High School CP English I Creative Writing Reading for Pleasure