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Knitting a Calming Niche

Camaraderie. Charity. Creativity. All are themes that come up when Oklahomans talk about how they can get attached to balls of yarn and shiny sets...

Fruit-Bearing Festivals

Food vendors at the McLoud Blackberry Festival must offer at least one item made from its namesake fruit, and they are more than happy to...

Life Beneath the Streets

Narrow tunnels beneath Tulsa’s and Oklahoma City’s downtowns are well-used – sometimes in ways the builders might never have envisioned. In Tulsa, 9-to-5ers can take...

The Sky Isn’t the Limit

Phyllis Gardner has changed her mind about a few activities since going to live at Inverness Village, a retirement community in Tulsa. “I made fun...

Get Outside

Tulsa Excursions Gathering Place: Launched in September on the east bank of the Arkansas River, this is the park other cities only wish they had....

What’s in a Name?

Slaughterville was not the most elegant name for a town, local residents had to admit. Some even toyed with the idea of changing it …...

Fresh Produce on Your Doorstep

It’s no small task to provide weekly produce deliveries to 1,200 lovers of farm-fresh food, but Local Farm OK makes it happen, and co-owner Ashley...

Unimpeded by Boundaries

Retired Jenks High School football coach Allan Trimble is not from this world, according to his friend Troy Taber. “He knows where he is from...

Mission: Exoneration

Wrongful convictions are not easy to overturn, even when the defense has DNA evidence on its side. Five to seven years is a typical timetable...

On the Road to Tipperary

The Creek County community of Shamrock, some say, is nothing more than a ghost town, yet every Wednesday 50 or more kids show up for...