Can-Do in Claremore
Claremore’s Will Rogers Boulevard encapsulates the evolution and stasis of one of Oklahoma’s oldest towns.
The street’s east end features revitalized shops, but Dot’s Cafe...
Enid is ‘And,’ not ‘Or’
Many times, people say something is this or that. Enid, however, embraces the conjunction and while mixing different traditions.
Enid is a military city because...
Two B’s… Two W’s
Broken Bow. Woodwork. Wine.
An alliterative combination symbolizes old meeting new in this hub of forestry and tourism in far southeastern Oklahoma … as a...
A Chisholm Trail Town
William Duncan, a transplanted Scot, may have anticipated the real-estate mantra, “Location, location, location,” when he established a trading post at a key crossroads...
A Bartian Rebound
Many thought Bartlesville would take a fatal body blow when Phillips Petroleum merged with Conoco and moved its headquarters to Houston in 2002.
After all,...
Mighty Mite
Tiny Medicine Park has always been too big for its breeches … not because it wants to be, but because it has to be....
Guthrie’s Greatness
Guthrie could slide into historic footnotes as Oklahoma’s first capital, but it uses the past to draw people to its Victorian downtown, Western heritage...
Sand and Schnitzel
You don’t need an ocean beach for your dune buggy, and you don’t need a metropolis to satisfy a hankering for a five-star schnitzel....
The Heart of the Osage
The Osage Nation’s home, Osage County’s seat, Pawhuska has had cultural significance long before a Pulitzer Prize-winning play and popular store came to town.
The...
‘Doin’ It Right in Doo-rant’
One of the quick ways to tell whether one is a native of or transplant to Durant is the pronunciation of its name.
DOO-rant, say...
