Building The WallBack in 2017 Donald Trump was the new kid on the block and America seemed to have one big question. Will the “Donald” build his historical wall and if so, what will it look like?
Different Strokes I was just reading about how folks across the plains are taking the election results of last week.Reminds me of 1944 when the papers (back east) whined and moaned how our “system” allowed such a mental midget (Truman) to replace our late great Roosevelt.He was who he was.But the...
An Exaggerated Report I guess everyone has wondered what would happen to his job, his family, his good old buddies if he happened to unexpectedly die. How — one can wonder — would they take it. I had a little taste of that one day.
Going Through Airport Security Seeing what a danger terrorism is to the flying public made me glad to see security was on the lookout for my safter one morning not so long ago. Keeping us safe. Several recent test attempts to smuggle fake bombs, guns aboard passenger planes were successful.
The Big Tornado Night in Stonewall. It was what we would call a “sultry” night in Stonewall, Oklahoma, in 1947. I was 12 and I had a less than lucrative job running the popcorn stand at the Main Theatre there on Stonewell’s Main Street.I was glad to be there.
August Sunlight This summer we have seen our usual hot sunshiny days of over 100F with the sun’s angles being sharp and anxious to inflict skin cancers. Just another proven fact we chose to ignore each summer.
In 1954 I was involved in taking my sister-in-law Judy back home to Spearman, Texas — A dusty town in the center of the dust bowl that whipsawed the Great Plains in the 1930s.The bedraggled panhandle town, like many in our part of the world had lost a lot of its population.
Ain’t This A Wonderful Country! The wind was whipping my pants pretty hard and I could hear the dust hitting my car, parked there in front of the courthouse of Cimmaron County— Boise City, Oklahoma.
When I first moved to Allen in 1963 the news was there were "Haints" in the area. Yes, they were spotted around "Seed Tick Cemetery" and all around the South Canadian. Yes, Big Foot was alive and well in the Allen area.
Olden days in Oklahoma Whatever happened to all the old hardware stores in America?In Allen we have memories of some great hardware stores here such as Fritz Johnson operated.But it is long gone.His was located in the middle of downtown where the Allen Historical Site now sits.