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Oklahoma Today September-October 1987 Volume 37 No. 5 SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER '87 I OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA Lbl. 3 7, No. 5 OM01 COVERS your bags for a weekend trip along cwo- PHOTO ESSAY 35 ---MI.-- lane highways that lead through the A look at equine passions in the forested mountains to the heart Hone Show Capital of the World. of a land. BLESSED ARE THE PIECEMAKERS 18 'I'he ancient art of quilting nearly disappeared a few decades ago, but a growing number of Oklahomans have joined a rekindled quilting movement. Old treasures have been brought out of the closet, and today's needle wizards have produced quilts that bypass the bedroom to be displayed in art shows and museums. Galyn Carlile climbs Baldy Peak, near Quartz Mountain State Park. Photo by Jim CLIMBING THE WALL 28 P. Garrison. Inside front. An You may suspect that people who expansive view of the like to hang from ropes several hundred Wichita Mountains Wildlife feet off the ground have rocks in Refuge. Photo by David their heads, yet they'll argue there's no ONE STOP SHORT Fitzgerald. Back. Autumn better way to get a clear view of the OF HEAVEN 41 colon on Lick Creek in landscape and life. Oklahoma is home Bob and Joyce Loomis have made it southeastern Oklahoma. for a group of elite rock climbers and to the top of the horse world, and with a Photo by Kym Wilson. world-class mountains. move to their Oklahoma dream ranch they say they've landed just one stop shy of the greatest ride of all. FEATURES DEPARTMENTS Today in Oklahoma .................................4 BACKROADS BooksILetters...........................................5 & BLUE HIGHWAYS Uncommon Common Folk ......................6 Southeastern Oklahoma is a place of Oklahoma Omnibus: contentment and contrast, evident The Mascots ...........................................26 beauty and an essence unseen. Pack Entertainment Calendar .........................45 PUBLISHED BY THE OKLAHOMA TOURISM AND RECREATZONDEPARTMENT (/Rlahoma 7irlL)A)' (ISSS 0030-1892) is published bi- Sue (:arter. Editor-in-Chief Sheila Brock. Accounting monthly in January. .\larch. .\lay. July. September and Sustln Bunney eTomlinson. Managing Editor Slelanie Slayberry. Subscription Services November. Subscription prices: $12l?r. in 1.5.: Blblyr. Pat Shaner 1,aquer. Art Director Lisa Breckenridge, Events Calendar outside I'.S.' Copyright 1987 by Oklahoma 7UD.4Y (:arolyn Ilollingsworth. Marketing Ellie .2linx, Production magazine. 401 \GI1 Rogers Bldg.. P.O. Box 53384. Oklahoma City, OK 73152. (40.5) 521-2496, I'rinted at I'enniVcll Printing. Tul~ Glenn Sullivan, Execuhve Director Tourism and Recreation Commission Second-class postage paid at Oklahoma City. OK and Tom Creider, Parks Eugene Dilbeck, Sere.ica (::irIosl,angsron. Woinna?~ 1,arry 1.indIey additional entry offices. Postniaster: Send address Slartin I). (iarbcr. 1'1re (.2uin?lun Susan Neal changes to Okluhomt~ 'lDM>' (:irculation. I'.O. Box .\tichael 1,. .Moccia. Adminisfration Eddie Fisher R.I.. Rollins 53384. Oklahoma <:in.. OR 731.52. Tom Rich, Lodges George \Valters Chino Ferrer, Plunning d IIA.elopmrt~r "Ugh tat. (;ov. Robert S. Kcrr 111. /-;.I .\#fi~'io SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER '87 watch the horses being washed and groomed and then exercised in the practice arenas at each show. The elaborately decorated stalls at the Mor- gan Show are something to see. "You'll miss the excitement if you don't see it all," Collier says. Jim Argo, who attended each of these major shows last winter, captures the excitement in a photo essay begin- ning on page 35. Welcome state new- hat human fly you see on page October 12-18 with approximately comers, Bob and Joyce Loomis, who T 28, inching his way across Baldy 1,000 horses expected to compete. train and show world champion reining Peak near Quartz Mountain State The other shows will attract from 700 and barrel racing horses for two of Park, is Duane Raleigh, a world-class to 2,000 entries each. these events. Their story begins on rock climber from Norman. Those who have never attended a page 41. The human fly behind him that you horse show may wonder what there is t+ In his first story for Oklh/loma TO- don't see is Jim Garrison, daredevil to see. DAY, Ralph Marsh captures the charm photographer who also snapped the "The average family attending a and mystical quality of the people and cover photo. horse show should look at the schedule the mountains of southeastern Oklaho- "I take as few chances as I can and first and pick an event," advises Steve ma. You'll be tempted to pack a pic- still climb," Jim says. "After all, I have Collier, director of marketing for the nic, visit the Heavener Runestone and two children." Oklahoma City Chamber of Com- Cedar Lake, then search for the magic Still, Jim free soloed at one point, merce. '"The Appaloosas have stake of Kiamichi Mountain after reading with a camera pack on his back, to get races and several shows have jumping Ralph's story, beginning on page 8. a closeup shot of Duane going up Mas- or halter events." But your trip won't be complete unless ter's Roof, a difficult route no one had The World Championship Quarter you follow the highway to Broken ever climbed, while the other climbers Horse Show, covering 60,000 square Bow, enjoy the wildlife and fsh a lit- watched nervously from the ground. feet at the State Fairgrounds, has the tle. Better plan on a weekend. Free solo is climber's language for largest trade show. But the others have + Beautiful scenery is again featured climbing without ropes-alone. "Half trade shows, too. Here is sold all kinds in the 1988 Oklahoma TODAY wall cal- way up I thought, 'Why am I doing of horse equipment, riding clothes and endar. A dramatic view of the Quartz this? If I fall, I've had it,' " he recalls. western hats, T-shirts, handcarved Mountains and southwestern farm Jim, who has taken two courses in knives and other works of art. lands, photographed by David Fitzger- rock climbing at Oklahoma City Com- Walk into the barns and you can ald, is shown on the cover. All of the munity College, climbs about once a calendar's 13 full-color photos are bor- month in the W~chitaMountains as dered in white and suitable for well as Quartz. He exhibited his wild- hht I-: We've got &at &at >u nwd for Chrimwx a guide-* framing. life and landscape photography in gas for gifts that are practical, silly, Quotations from Oklahoma authors eight art shows in Colorado last sum- @&ionable, amy, fun, Even education- about Oklahoma's people and places mer in between climbing in the &. And the bwc &iag about the& @is complement the photographs. Rockies. &t all of them are made in ~ahoma, You will want to order calendars as For more of Jim's dramatic photog- pen, remember the toys you gor for gifts for friends, relatives and business raphy and an equally exciting story by -adsmaswhen you wore a kid?Bdae associates. It's a wonderful way to say Oklahoma TODAY Managing Editor tansformers and laser gummi?mwen a hello from Oklahoma to those out of Susan Tomlinson, turn to page 28. It's '&ought? One WornGhy inaxibt state. Still the same low price, only a cliff hanger. &signer developed such a passion frrr $5.95 plus $1 for postage. Instructions antique toys that he's collecmd arose &w When October arrives, Oklahoma for ordering are on page 17. &an 1,000 that dare back to the mid- literally goes to the horses with five century, These smries plus others Contributing photographers are Ivan worldclass horse shows set annually tqpmn signs and the Hank Thompson L. McCartney, Kym Wilson, Paul Le- for Oklahoma City and three in Guth- &hwl of Country Music in che Noman- febvre, Jim Argo, J. Don Cook, Larry rie's Lazy E Arena. The Grand Na- her-Deeember issue of TO- D. Brown, Steve Wilson and David tional and World Championship DAX Don't miss it. Fitzgerald. Morgan Horse Show opens the season & The Regional Magazine Publish- Oklahoma TODAY ers Association presented Ok/ahoma something you remember forever, Congratulations on your being TODAY an Award of Merit for the mag- someone pulling a trigger on you," named runner-up for the Best Travel azine that "best reflects the spirit and says Billy Walkabout, Tahlequah, one Magazine in the Lowell Thomas Trav- image of a state or region" during its of America's most decorated Vietnam el Journalism Awards sponsored by the annual conference in Madison, Wis- veterans. Society of American Travel Writers consin. Forty regional magazines com- "I carried a deck of cards all through Foundation. The consistent profes- peted. We couldn't be more Vietnam. Fifty-two. I sent a card a sional hard work that goes into produc- pleased. -Sue Carter. week home to Mary Jane," says Jim ing winning entries such as yours Howarth, Holdenville. should serve as a stimulation to all trav- "To this day I don't know what real- el editors who aspire to excellence. ly happened. Why did they let me go? Tom and Joanne OToole, Why didn't they take me prisoner? Kill Travel Journalists me? One guy stepped forward, and I Wickliffe, Ohio Vietnam: The Heartland Remem- figured he was going to be my execu- bers, by Stan/q W. Bea/q; Univenig tioner, but he said to me, 'Same fight, I want your staff to know how much of Ok/ahoma Pras, 1005 Asp Ave., Nor- no fight,' and he and the others melted I enjoy the magazine. It is a great man, OK 73019; $16.95. Perhaps into the jungle," says Wilbert Brown, addition to our waiting room.
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