Hey, Ada, Oklahoma is an fun town. It started out as Connors Corners back in the nineteenth century when Oklahoma was Indian Territory and outlaws could hide out from whiteman's laws.

Connors Corners consisted exclusively of a tavern for outlaws. There were so many murders at the tavern that they had their own graveyard out back.

At one time they had a big party and served wild blackberry wine. They fermented the berries and strained the juice. They threw the fermented blackberry seeds into the back yard.

The tavern owners chickens ate the seeds and got drunk. The outlaws drank the wine and got drunk.

The drunk outlaws were having a lot of fun laughing at the chickens bobbing around the yard drunk then one of them decided their bobbing heads would make great target practice so he shot and killed all the chickens.

The tavern owner thought it was great fun too until he began sobering up and realized all his chickens were dead so he shot and killed the guy who shot his chickens.

The partiers buried the chicken killer in the backyard, fried up the chickens, drank the wine, and continued the party.


Ada stole its townsite from a place called Dags Flats, but that's a whole other story. And it is the site of the last hanging in Oklahoma. But that's another story too.

Ada's a fun place.

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[ June 07, 2006, 01:49 PM: Message edited by: smilinize ]