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Hair styled by Shawna Burroughs, Jara Herron Salon. Makeup by Taylor Ledbetter. Model Provided by Linda Layman Agency. See behind the scenes of this year's fall fashion shoot in the web exclusive video.

The Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture has undergone many changes since its formation in 1965. But, President/CEO Jim Horne, who has been with the organization for 43 years, says public perception on the subject of sustainability has changed the most. “The biggest change for us since we started out has been public perception and concern about issues of sustainability,” Horne...

Glimmering white, the state’s grain elevators thrust upward into pale blue skies across Oklahoma, dotting her landscape with the Plains’ version of castles or cathedrals. Now these iconic symbols have begun to fade away. Most of the state’s concrete elevators were built between the 1920s and the 1950s; most were finished with a coating of brilliant white paint. It was...

The White House, Washington Monument, government buildings, Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson memorials, war memorials and countless museums draw visitors of Washington, D.C., to their doors every year. On the National Mall, between the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum and the U.S. Capitol Building, sits a unique structure whose curvilinear architecture and landscape nod to its purpose: housing the...

  “It’s Oklahoma, and everyone likes buffaloes.” That’s the short story of why Tulsa artist Christopher Mantle began painting buffaloes. The long story involves flute-playing, the Holy Spirit, a palindrome and recycling.“You would get a buffalo and make something out of all its parts. So I say to the kids, ‘When you get a present and it’s all wrapped up in...

I thought I was using myths to write a story. Turned out that I used a story to write a myth. – S.E. Hinton, from her author’s note for the 2013 edition of Rumble Fish Forty years ago, a full-grown child arrived in this world – brilliant, but destined to be misunderstood. It was Rumble Fish, the third novel from Tulsa-based...

Anthem Brewing Company “Our beers are our anthem to the world,” says Patrick Lively, president and brewmaster of Anthem Brewing Company. Anthem opened in 2012, manufacturing beers at OKCity Brewing, a brewers’ cooperative that housed three brewing companies. “Brewing is our passion, so when the opportunity came up to make that our profession we jumped,” says Lively. The company’s logo, a big-eyed creature...

It took three months and thousands of votes, but the readers of Oklahoma Magazine have spoken. The following pages are full of the best of everything, from pediatrician to paint store, steakhouse to staffing agency. You’ll find out where our readers like to shop, where they travel and even where they go for a little TLC. Hundreds were named...

Clara Nipper keeps two refurbished newspaper distribution boxes at the curb in front of her property. The boxes, part of the Little Free Library initiative, house books for both adults and children and are free for those passing by to take. The Little Free Library is a nonprofit organization whose mission of providing access to books for both adults and...

It sounds like something straight out of a Marx Brothers movie. Hundreds of Oklahoma farmers, American Indians and African Americans, armed with shotguns and pitchforks, planned a walk to Washington, D.C., to protest President Woodrow Wilson’s enactment of the draft and plan to enter World War I. Protestors planned to sustain themselves during the march by living off the land,...