Next Friday, 7 p.m., at the Landrush Museum, I will be performing Buckskin Joe.
It's been awhile, but I am eager to do it again. Its lots of fun. There is a charge as this event is aimed at raising a bit of money for the museum.
Buckskin will give a talk - in character - and then there will be time for questions and discussion of the early days of Arkansas City.
Buckskin Joe was quiet a character. Of course, i've not met anyone who actually knew him, so my interpretation of his personality is just that - an interpretation. It is based on lots of reading and study.
It's amazing to me that one person could do all that he did.
He was a farmer, musician, showman, business man and gold prospector.
He ran the athletic grocery house, which was a grocery store with a gym in the back. he advocated regular exercise for good health, and for a time ran what amounted to a health club.
He taught music - could play 16 instruments. He started the city band.
He had been a circus performer. He walked a tight-rope across Summit Street, and there is a picture of him doing it at the museum.
The list of what all he did goes on and on.
The biggest thing to me, was that he was a visionary. He never doubted that he could do what he wanted to do, and more often than not, he was right.
Ive done Buckskin Joe for a few years now. That all started in Dexter at this seminar on story telling. That group isn't active anymore, but I really got the story telling bug there.
So come on out.
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