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I couldn\u2019t have asked for a better childhood, growing up in Poteau, Oklahoma, a town of 8,000 near the Arkansas border. Dad was a state representative; Mom was a high school teacher<\/a>; my maternal grandfather, Sherman Floyd, was the high school principal, football coach and a city councilman; and my maternal grandmother, Linda Floyd, taught first grade. Most everyone in town knew my family.<\/p>\n

In a state filled with Native American place names (Oklahoma <\/em>comes from the Choctaw words for \u201cred people\u201d), Poteau<\/em> is French for \u201cpost.\u201d French explorers established trading posts in the area in the early eighteenth century.<\/p>\n

Poteau\u2019s topography differs from typical Oklahoma plains. I spent my boyhood exploring Cavanal, dubbed the world\u2019s tallest hill (elevation: 1,999 feet). I\u2019m a country boy at heart, and nothing brings me closer to God than being in nature<\/a>. The view from the hill of valley-nestled Poteau is breathtaking!<\/p>\n

Another great way to get close to God is at Green Country Cowboy Church<\/a>. Its motto? \u201cCome as you are.\u201d Jeans, boots and cowboy hats are welcome. The rustic sanctuary features beamed ceilings, and a steel horse trough was once a baptismal font. Pastor and founder Victor Sweet says, \u201cWe want people to know they don\u2019t have to clean up or change their clothes, literally and metaphorically, in order to come to God.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of my favorite places to eat is Warehouse Willy\u2019s. The steak house owner, Terry Williamson, a former highway patrol officer, couldn\u2019t shake his love for restaurants<\/a> after working at the Chicken Hut in high school.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome people thought I was crazy for giving up a state job,\u201d he says. \u201cWhen I said I wanted to open a restaurant in an abandoned building in a dying downtown district 25 years ago, they really <\/em>thought I was crazy.\u201d Warehouse Willy\u2019s sparked the revitalization of historic Poteau. Now colorful shops are housed in buildings erected by early pioneers.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll find more ancient history 25 miles away, at Spiro Mounds Archaeological Center, on 150 acres along the Arkansas River. Grade-school field trips taught me about the Spiro people, who lived there from about 800 to 1450 A.D. They led the Mississippians, a Native American culture<\/a> that flourished in the Midwest and Southeast.<\/p>\n

Agricultural communities featured large earthen mounds, and extensive trade networks crossed much of what became the United States. \u201cThe Mississippian leaders presided over a confederation of more than 60 tribes, 30 language groups and over three million people,\u201d says the center\u2019s executive director Dennis Peterson, who has studied the Spiro for decades.<\/p>\n

Our family moved to the state capital for Dad\u2019s job after I graduated high school, but I\u2019ll always consider myself a son of Poteau. Come see what a wonderful place it is!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

For more inspiring stories, subscribe to <\/em>Guideposts<\/strong><\/a> magazine<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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