Caddies of the Oaks

By D.R. Stone

Concerned about the culture your children or grandchildren are growing up in? 

 

Today's youth are faced with

• lack of strong role models
• lack of purpose and direction
• depression leading to drugs and suicide
• Chaos and financial problems in their family

The young men in Caddies of the Oaks, during the 1960s, experienced the same problems.  But they had something different, a way out.

You can make a difference in the life of a young person.  Read this true story of young men raised in poverty in a poor community without running water or sewer, but just a few miles away from the playground of Tulsa's richest oil men.

 

Read about the forgotten caddies and how their way out could help our youth today.

• Language: English
• Publisher: D.R. Stone
• Release date: Oct 11, 2022
• ISBN: 9798215925263

D.R. Stone

D.R. Stone lives in rural Oklahoma with her husband, John.  She enjoys gardening, quilting, and having fun with grandchildren. Her previous writing has been the Frugal Living Newsletter and her blog at osageprairie.wordpress.com.

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New Beginnings

Don and I, we’ve been friends for over 50 years.  We’re all that’s left of the old gang.  Most of the guys we grew up with are either in prison or dead; drug overdose, car wrecks or murdered.  You see, we grew up in Oakhurst, West of Tulsa.  You’ve heard of the book, The Outsiders, we were outsiders, greasers from the wrong side of the tracks.

Back then, it was much cheaper to live in Oakhurst, so it attracted blue collar workers with large families like mine.  I was the only boy with 5 sisters.  Because it was outside city limits and the watchful eye of the police, criminals liked living there too. 

Before we came to Oakhurst, we lived in the country.  Our nearest neighbor was 5 miles away.  We lived off our huge vegetable garden, raised rabbits and chickens for the government, thousands of them!  I hated those rabbits, still do.

Dad worked and lived in Tulsa during the week and came home on weekends.  Mom was a good Christian woman, but she didn’t put up with any nonsense, backtalk, or goofing off.  She made sure we took care of the animals, garden, and our schoolwork.  She would can all our food from the garden and animals.  We only went into town for things like sugar, flour, and salt.  At night when we were in bed, I would hear her sewing our clothes from the flour sacks on her treadle sewing machine.  I don’t know when she had time to sleep.

We didn’t have electric or running water on the farm.  We carried water by pail from a nearby spring.  I loved living on the farm.  Dad up and sold the farm and moved us into town.  I hated it.  I never knew why he sold the farm, but you didn’t question him.

When we left the

Reviews for Caddies of the Oaks

[Debbie Hase · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This is about a group of poor boys from the wrong side of the tracks, the West side of Tulsa in Oakhurst. The story how they went to work as golf caddies for the rich and how their lives were forever changed. It's short but lessons could be applied to problems our youth are facing today.