| Look at that form! Look at that courage. And this is his
second attempt too; I didn't catch the first one and asked Kyle do it over
again. His leap brought back old memories of when I was that age and had this
favorite sport of running down a mountainside, leaping from rock to rock,
somehow knowing which rocks would hold, which rocks would skid and which way
they would shoot, and the pure exhilaration of youthful vim and vigor. Of
course you can't let the kids of today do anything that stupid, but boy did I
ever have fun! There have been numerous coal mines in this region. Wilburton itself is named for Will Burton, a contractor employed to construct the Rock Island Railroad. Less than three miles east of Wilburton on US Highway 270 you will find the Lutie Coalminer's Museum. It is housed in a coal mining house built in 1901. Inside you will find furnishings and mining artifacts dating from 1880 to 1903.
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Lin Stone is an author, writer and photographer living in Noble Oklahoma You can have immediate, and free, reading of many more pieces when you send your little surfer scooting to Lin's home page at http://www.talewins.com/StoneSoup.htm where he keeps stirring up more good things for the soul.