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Henry Dolive
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The Ada Style
Nearly six decades ago, an Oklahoma journalist took exception to an east-coast writer’s snooty characterization of Ada as a “hick town.” Ada News columnist Ernest...
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Welcome to the Circus
The Big Top hasn’t left town, but Hugo – long the winter home of circus shows – no longer calls itself “Circus City U.S.A.” Although...
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The Draw of Lake Living
Located in the northeast corner of Delaware County and skirting the eastern shore of the massive Grand Lake o’ the Cherokees, Grove has a population...
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A Crossroads of Culture
Economic developers who tout a community’s main assets as “location, location, location” surely had a place such as Shawnee in mind. Shawnee, a proverbial hop,...
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All Sunny in Stroud
Tucked into the northeast corner of Lincoln County just a mile off the halfway point of the Turner Turnpike, Stroud holds a distinctive place on...
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A Place to Breathe
From its earliest days as a rowdy, late 1800s Cherokee Outlet trading and cattle-shipping outpost, Woodward has grown to be a most busy place. Indeed,...
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Blending Past
and Future
A 30-minute drive east on US 412 from Tulsa takes you to the town of Chouteau, where the sight of a horse and buggy might...
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All Calm in Kenton
With a population too small to be listed on the official state map, and at least 40 miles from the next-largest town, Kenton – tucked...
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A Race to the Finish Line
The 2022 political season began early in OKC, as voters will decide this month whether to give Mayor David Holt a second four-year term or...
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Sublime in Sulphur
Once a destination for people who believed in the healing and restorative powers of the nearby sulphur springs – from which the town took its...