The Lighthorse Captain and the Schoolteacher Sitting on Whiskey | A Cherokee Nation Love Story

Captain Andrew Sixkiller of the Cherokee Lighthorse smells whiskey on the Fort Gibson road, and it is coming from the crate the new schoolteacher is sitting on. "Those are not hymnals," says Alice Yardley. She teaches spelling. She does not know what whiskey costs. Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation, 1876. Andrew's mother has called him "Judge" since he was nine, and this summer the district wants him for the seat. Alice has a smoking stove, a school to run, and a set of letters she has never seen. Andrew has a stovepipe he keeps promising to fix, and a Saturday visit he cannot explain. In a small town where Nancy Tehee has never kept a secret past Sunday, how long can two careful people go on saying only part of what they mean? A complete original love story, about 30 minutes, told for a quiet evening: a stove, a mare, a crate of "hymnals", a plate of bean bread and a note that says almost the right thing. Chapters 0:00 Forty hymnals 4:08 A terrible tinsmith 8:16 Speaking day at the capitol square 11:18 Rachel comes inside 14:59 A bag of borrowed tools 17:03 Bean bread 19:30 One sentence to write 20:20 The Lighthorse stable 21:30 The good coffee 22:43 Before the sun 25:14 The Muskogee depot 27:28 Thursday 28:21 Saturday at the schoolhouse 29:02 Park Hill, October No archive pictures were used. Music: "Lost Frontier" and "Crossing the Divide" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Lantern Stories are original fiction written for the channel. The story is a work of imagination.