According to Turner, Stratton succeeded in nearly everything she attempted. She only lived a few years in Lamar, her family relocated to the community due to her family being a Baptist minister. It would be incredible enough that Stratton lived to be 107. Perhaps the individual who passed through Lamar, besides President Truman, who made the most significant impact nationally was Dorthy Stratton. By that time, Walter Earp didn’t live too long past Truman becoming President, but his son Everett, who was also in law enforcement, began conducting tours.” “The Earps owned it from 1920 to about 1956, and in fact, they were the first ones to have tours after Truman became the first Vice President and then President. While the Earp and Truman’s families didn’t know each other at the time, eventually, the Earp’s would purchase Truman’s birth home in Lamar, according to Turner. ![]() Lamar is also known for being the birthplace of the 33rd President of the United States, Harry S. “As a 20-year-old, he (Earp) became the first city constable of Lamar, and he was not partially a good one and he pretty much got ran out of town.” While numerous films portray Earp as an outlaw and constantly on the run, author Randy Turner says Earp worked both sides of the law. Less known is that the Earp family, including Wyatt, settled in western Missouri. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona on October 26, 1881. He is probably best known for being a part of the shootout at O.K. Wyatt Earp was a well-known figure during the wild west days of American history from the late ‘1800s reaching into the ‘1910s. ![]() Complete Episode Six Author Randy Turner speaks about his new book, Only in Lamar, Missouri: Harry Truman, Wyatt Earp and Legendary Locals Carrol Puckett and Rob Poole of Olive Street Presents Randy Turner’s new book, Only In Lamar: Harry Truman, Wyatt Earp, and Legendary Locals, seeks to tell the stories of the town’s internationally known residents and those not so well known but who helped shape Missouri and the U.S. Or a town where you stop along I-49, stretch your legs and fill up your car with gas on your way back home. This would make it perfect.Today, Lamar, Missouri, population 4,200, is probably best known as a stop on your way to Kansas City. It also means Joplin can be more easily used in a Wiki style which I know many people use it for (personal wikis etc.) I know I have tried to do that, but the linking functionality is just not quite there yet. ![]() It borrows intellisense / code-completion features from programming IDEs, and makes the whole linking between notes feature much more user friendly. ![]() This is a great feature for a Google Summer of Code intern to be working on. Want to link to notes in another notebook? You would start typing: [OtherNoteBook/Note and an autocomplete box appears at the cursor with notes starting with “Note” inside of “OtherNoteBook”. If you start typing: [My Note#Hea the “ #Hea” will trigger a search for headings with “My Note” and also give a dropdown to autocomplete. The double square notation is just the wiki style, but you could just keep it with markdown and open the dropdown when a single square bracket and a note name is typed. You can use arrows to select one and then enter to insert the link. This brings up a dropdown auto-hint box with matching notes. The actual functionality is there, but the usability is not.įor example: rather than having to right click a note -> copy link -> go back to note being edited -> paste link, you should be able to (for instance) start typing [[ (two square brackets) and then start typing a note name. This really needs to be enhanced from a UX perspective.
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