Main Street CLUE

June First Friday, 2019​

242 detectives played Main Street CLUE to find out who from Enid's history murdered Mr Grand, where, and with what weapon.

​It was Lt Colonel Vance at the Enid Brewing Co with the Candle Stick!
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THANK YOU to the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center volunteers who portrayed the suspects:

• Jerry Allen as Prof. Carey
• Frank Baker as Mr. James
• Lynn Smith as Mr. Puckett
• Carmen Ball as Dr. Ross
• Mary Kanikkeberg Fischaber as Miss Truitt

​Special THANK YOU to Catharine Thomas, Robbin Davis and Aaron Preston at the CSRHC and the Public Library of Enid & Garfield County! 

Suspects:

Dr. Milburn Carey
(1912-2006)
Dr. Milburn Carey was the director of Tri-State from 1936 to 1982, and grew it into a complete music festival by adding choral and vocal music, and other activities. Carey developed an all-girl drum and bugle corps, the Enid Legionettes, which played for 14 years and toured to California and New York. He also organized Red Carpet Country Choir and Instrumental Ensemble, which toured in Europe four times. After earning degrees at the University of Illinois and Columbia University, Carey became head of the music education department at Phillips University. He served Phillips University as bandmaster for 21 years and director of fine arts for 15 years. He was the youngest member elected to American Bandmasters Association.

Marquis James
(1891-1955)
A journalist and biographer, Marquis grew up in the Cherokee Outlet with an eclectic group of friends and a love for history.  He developed his writing career through a love of the printing trade and, eventually, he helped launch The New Yorker magazine.  His works were so celebrated that he was awarded two Pulitzer Prizes for his work on biographies of Sam Houston and Andrew Jackson.
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Mr. Edward Newton (E.N.) Puckett
(1879-1954)
EN Puckett moved to Enid in 1926 and started the Union Equity Co-Op. Through a series of expansions and mergers, Mr. Puckett became the manager of one of the largest grain companies in the world. He was credited with the hexagonal storage design, but being a faithful, Christian man, he gave God the credit saying, "It was the Lord's design for nature's storage."
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Dr. Hope Annette Snider Ross 
(1910 - 2001)
Despite coming from a background of uneducated farm laborers from Tennessee, Dr. Hope's parents found a way to send her to Maryville College where she majored in Biology and minored in Chemistry. She was one of two women in the pre-med club, which led her to pursue medical school at University of Oklahoma, where she met her future husband, Dr. George T. Ross. In 1937 Dr. Hope and Dr. George established their offices in Enid on the second floor of the First National Bank Building. In addition to being one of the first female physicians, Dr. Hope was an advocate for Civil Rights and Medicare. Sh was an area consultant for Vocational Rehabilitation and on the Governor's Advisory Commission on Employment of the Handicapped. Being politically minded, Hope went to the first White House Conference on Education and was appointed to the National Committee of Physicians on Medicare. As a hard core Democrat, she attended every Democratic National Convention from 1960 to 1980 in an honorary capacity.
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Bessie Truitt
(1884-1972)
The first female elected to public office of Court Clerk in Garfield County in 1920, Bessie was born in Kansas, but grew up and lived most of her life in Enid.  Starting her education at a subscription school run by Miss Lessie Livingston, learning and teaching became a way of life for Bessie. She taught in a school near Kremlin and for four years in Salt Lake City, UT. Returning to Enid in 1917 she taught in the McKinley schools, while being active in the Red Cross and Co-Director of the War Savings societies during WWI. After her career as the Court Clerk, Bessie attended Phillips University earning both a Bachelor and Master degrees before returning to teach in the Enid schools. While she enjoyed teaching, her true love was poetry. She was the National League of American Pen Women president, a life member of the Poetry Society of Oklahoma and was the Poet Laureate of the State of Oklahoma from 1945 until 1963. Her heritage as one of the pioneering families in the Cherokee Strip let her to become one of the founding members of the Sons and Daughters of the Cherokee Strip and Editor of the Journal of the Cherokee Strip until 1967.
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Lt. Col. Leon Robert "Bob" Vance
(1916 - 1944)
An Enid native with a tradition of flying in his family, Lt. Col. Vance flew Liberator bombers in Europe during WWII. In his flight training he advanced on sheer merit.  He was described as an exceptional officer who was capable of inspiring and motivating his superiors and subordinates.  Travel back to the states near the end of the war, he and sixteen other men disappeared en route. Vance received the Medal of Honor posthumously. In addition, he is the namesake of Enid's Vance Air Force Base.
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