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PICKIN', PLAYIN' COVERS AND PASSIN' TESTS 12 PORTFOLIO 28 Students at the Hank Thompson Scenes you won't forget from School of Country Music at Rogers State Oklahoma's late fall and early winter. College learn from teachers who are living legends and mix English and history homework with classes like Country Choreography, Recording Techniques and Stage Personality. In Claremore, these kids are one class act.

A CHRISTMAS TREASURECHEST 18 Imagine opening packages Christmas morning to find your most cherished A PICTURE-PERFECT WINTER 34 toys from childhood ...and not only Picture yourself a winner in Okhhoma Yesterday's Christmas yours, but your mother's and TODAYs first photography contest. treasures from the Argos' grandmother's, too. For Tom Hoch, attic. Photo by Jim Argo. collector of more than 1,200 antique OKLAHOMA GIFT GUIDE 35 Inside hnt. A November toys, it's Christmas year around. Please wait to say you don't need or day in Red Rock Canyon. want anything for Christmas until you've Photo by David Fitzgerald. shopped with US. We've got teepees Back. Icicles on a ledge in THEARTOFNEON 22 for little Indians, edible chocolate Osage County. Photo by snowmen, exquisite wooden Harvey Payne. It started as a symbol of high-toned glamor in the early 20th century, then sculptures, thongs for the laid-back fell from grace in the '50s. But neon golfer and season tickets to the is up in lights again as ballyhoo for opera. We've got ideas for everyone on trendy businesses and in galleries of your Christmas list ...including you. fine art. And best of all, everything is made in FEATURES Oklahoma. THE FENSTER MUSEUM I DEPARTMENTS OF JEWISH ART 8 Today in Oklahoma 4 Tulsa is home for the Southwest's ...... finest collection of Judaica, an Booksnetters...... 4-5 international assemblage of art and Uncommon Common Folk ...... 6 articles that reflect 4,000 years of Jewish Oklahoma Omnibus: history, from the time of Moses to 3 Sacred Heart Mission...... 26 today. Entertainment Calendar...... 45

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NOVEMBER-DECEMBER '87 3 rector Tom Creider also will help se- lect the best photos. 6- November and December are al- ways special in Oklahoma because those are months when families and friends gather to celebrate the holi- days. Kathryn Jenson White has select- ed a broad array of made-in-Oklahoma toys, books, fashions, crafts, tickets to special events and resort get-aways. Turn to page 35 for Kathryn's one-of- ne of the pleasures of living in TODAY Photography Contest. a-kind gift guide. 0Oklahoma is experiencing a new The competition is open to all pho- Oklahomans are creative and inven- season every two or three months. tographers with separate categories for tive, so obviously not every Oklahoma Residents in some areas of our country amateurs, professionals and children. product is included. Several crafts and may live a lifetime in one or two sea- Grand prize for amateur photographers arts catalogs are being organized and sons, a balmy springtime of 70 to 80 is a two-day photo expedition to a state printed. However, if we've overlooked degrees the year round or perhaps a park with David Fitzgerald, nationally one of your favorite gift ideas, write us. long winter with a three-month known for his book, Oklahoma. Fitz- Perhaps we can include it another summer. gerald also is a judge for the contest. time. This seasonal change for the Oklaho- Prize-winning photos of scenery, $w Gifts, of course, are traditionally ma TODAY staff was telescoped last wildlife and outdoor recreation in the exchanged during Hanukkah as well as August as we sifted through hundreds state parks this winter will be printed at Christmas. But what else do you of photographs of snow scenes for this in a future issue of Oklahoma TODAY. know or not know about the Jewish issue's Portfolio. Stacked on desks Yes, a photo could include all three faith and culture? Susan Everly-Douze waiting to be photographed for the topics, but you choose the topic for writes about Tulsa's Fenster Museum Christmas Gift Guide were dolls and each photo entry. Turn to page 44 for of Jewish Art, home of the finest col- wooden horses, baskets of nuts and rules and other information. lection of Judaica in the Southwest, cheese, jewelry and crafts of all sorts. Oklahoma maintains 60 state parks beginning on page 8. Outside our office windows the tem- providing recreational, scenic and wild- $UJ And what would Christmas and perature was inching near 100 degrees, life photo opportunities in virtually ev- Hanukkah be without toys? Tom typical of an Oklahoma summer day, ery area of the state. We hope to Hoch, who has been collecting antique while inside we worked on this Christ- receive several entries from each park. toys for 30 years, now displays part of mas issue. Before it's delivered to your Co-sponsor for the contest is the Parks his collection in a traveling exhibit that mailbox, however, we will have felt Division of the Oklahoma Tourism appears in shopping malls across the the temperature cool and watched the and Recreation Department. Parks Di- country. Burnis Argo's story begins on leaves turn for another glorious Okla- page 18. homa fall. @ From each of us at Oklahoma TO- Featured in this Portfolio, beginning Next Issue: Art Deco's geometric- DAY, best wishes for wonderful holi- architecture found a permanent home in days for each of you. -Sue Carter on page 28, are several photographers Tulsa in the 1920s-1940s, largely be- new to Oklahoma TODAY readers. cause of the woddlv tastes of Oklaho- They've been asked to recall what ma's early-day oil barons. Writer mood they were trying to capture as Michael Wallis and photographer David they snapped these photos last winter. Halpern will guide you around town for @wOne of the best places to view the a look at these extraordinary buildings. changes of seasons is in our state parks, Then, you'll relive a little-known part The Women's West, edtd 4 Swan which are among the nation's most of World War I1 through the memories Annitage and ElimM Jameson; Uni- popular. As soon as water skiers and of seven women pilots who flew every vmity of Oklahoma Pms, 1005 Asp Av- type of wartime fighter plane. And swimmers left the beaches last sum- enue, Norman, OK 73019; $24.95, you'll enjoy a wildlife portfolio from the mer, fishermen unpacked their gear for clot4; $12.95, paper. The American state's finest nature photographers. ,411 West was discovered and tamed by fall fishing. But what do people do in this and more in the January-February the parks during winter? That's what issue of ORIaAoma TODAY. men, all rugged individualists coura- we hope to find out next spring when geously searching to establish a new entries are due for the first Oklahoma world by crashing through boundaries

4 Oklahoma TODAY set by the old one. The women who I read with great interest and en- receiving each edition. Thank you to ventured to the frontier were either joyed the article on old soda fountains our friends and to you for the beautiful frightened wives passively fulfilling (Two Hugs and a Kks, July-August). I magazine. their matrimonial responsibilities or must say, though, that I was disap- Lindsey and Janet Urguhart sterling-hearted prostitutes. pointed that our store was not South Queensferry, Scotland Right? mentioned. Well, maybe not. In this collection Foster Drug has been operating in After seeing the March-April issue, of 21 articles, the writers challenge the same location here in Perry for who could resist Okhhoma TODAY? what they consider myths and stereo- almost 70 years. The fountain is still in Looking at the flashy flowers in the types of women-white, Indian and existence pretty much as it has always wildflower portfolio was like walking Mexican-of the Old West. They ex- been except that the marble has been over our place since we have all of plore women's public and private lives replaced with formica, and, yes, we them except the water lily, plus many through diaries, interviews, literature, still serve the old-fashioned drinks others. public records and other sources and such as fresh limeades, ice cream sodas Gladys D. Jenni come to the unanimous decision that and suicides. Sperry history must be reconstructed to prop- The fountain was not only a main- erly understand the settling of the stay in the drug store, it was often the West. hub of community social life. The Congratulations on the great honors The authors, an impressive group of fountain in our store is still a gathering recently bestowed on your magazine! scholars and researchers, did find place for the people of our town and My children who live in Colorado, women-daughters of the Victorian over the years I have watched many a Texas and Kansas also enjoy their sub- era of behavior and thought-who budding romance start over a shared scriptions to Okhhoma TODW. passively and reluctantly followed their soda or malt. We still make our own Every facet of the magazine is su- husbands. Yet they also found women syrups and flavorings, and although the per-that is why I have kept a collec- who uooped West, often alone, for the marble-topped tables are gone, we still tion since its inception. same reasons the American male he- have a 12-stool bar and one formica- Florence S. Turner roes did-to seek freedom, land for topped table with the old bentwood Norman homesteading and the creation of a chairs. new way of life. Thanks for helping recall a slower Editor's Note: Danks for writing. The discoveries and assertions pre- and more relaxed lifestyle with articles We'npkascd, too, t4at de magmine won sented here will prompt rewriting and such as this one. an Awani of Menifrom hRcgonal Pub- rethinking of some visions of the Old Mike Shannon, owner /&Am AssoCMtjon for t4e magmine ht West, both in scholarly work and fic- Foster Comer Drug ktn$/en~ hstate's spirit and fitst nm- tion. There's still time to offer a final Perry ner-up to National Geographic's Travel- curtain call to the hardy women who er for de btsr trave/ magazine in a cornpention sponsond by t4e SmOCIety of brought strength and beauty with Oklahoma TODAY is a swell maga- American Travel Writers. them to their wilderness homes. zine, and I enjoy it very much. I am a Cherokee Indian from Tahlequah, but Being in the military and stationed I have been in the South since the in Germany means journeys home are mid-1940s. I was discharged from the few and far between. Okkzhoma TO- service in the South, got married here DAY has been a cherished link to I'm a native Tulsan and have, of and just stayed. I sure miss Oklahoma; home for me. Keep up the good work. course, floated the Illinois River many it still feels like home. P.S. I'd love to see more photo- times. But being in the Navy and away Jack C. Hendricks graphs of the Kiamichi and Ouachita from home has weakened my kinship Casselbeny, Florida areas. to Oklahoma. I must confess, how- ever, that your July-August issue with Jeff Maple My husband and I were fortunate to Augsburg, Germany space devoted to nature, Tahlequah visit Tulsa in June 1985. We had a and especially the Illinois River has wonderful time in your beautiful city. OkMm lDDAY welcomes letten from our reminded me that regardless of where Everyone was so friendly, and since readen. 'Zhe letten must be signed, and we I live, Oklahoma will always be home. then the two friends we met while reserve the right to editlor condense them. Send your comments to: Letten, OkW Chuck Nunley there have subscribed to Ok/ahoma TO- TODW, P.O. Box 53384, Wahoma Gty, Virginia Beach, Virginia DAY for us. Now we look forward to OK 73152.

NOVEMBER-DECEMBER '87 5 tiny, multicolored dots Rose sews on are called seed beads. If all the seeds she's sewed sprouted, we'd have a bumper crop of green beads. Not to mention red, yellow, orange and white The Thompsons' costume competi- of the leather and most of the amazing ones. tion activities began when, Bill says, beadwork. Bill has picked up the The Thompsons wear their cos- "We were looking at an issue of Appa- beading needle on occasion, however. tumes as they ride two of their Appa- /oosa Journa/ that had a picture of this He also had to make some beading loosa horses in the costume class gal on the cover in Indian costume. I looms for strip beading since the ones competition at the World Champion- said, 'Well, I can design a better one available commercially weren't large ship Appaloosa Show held in Oklaho- than that and do better beadwork.' I enough for the Thompsons' needs. ma City each fall. Since first entering did beadwork when I was a Scout back "Most of what I do is called 'lazy in 1978, Rose has won a fifth place, in the '30s. This other guy with us squaw beading,' because I don't like to two third places, three reserve world said, "You can't do it.' I said, 'Boy, you mess with the loom," Rose says. championships (second place awards) said the wrong thing. I wi/do it.' And "With that method, you bead right on and the 1985 world championship; I did do it. That's what started the the material. You put one bead at a Bill, who didn't get involved until a whole thing." time on the needle. You do six at a couple of years after Rose, has won "You get addicted," Rose adds. time, then you stitch. You could do fifth-, fourth- and third-place awards, "When we started, the horse industry more, but it makes it too weak. It's so taken reserve world champion once was really rollin', and we went to all much easier than applique. In that, and been world champion in 1983 and the regional shows. If you got beat one you put on a bead, then stitch; put on 1984. When you add the hundreds of week, you came home and just beaded a bead, then stitch." Rose's hat has I awards they've won at regional compe- like a son of a gun to get something applique beadwork, but the rest of her l titions, you understand why their den else on your costume that might make outfit is done in the six-at-a-stitch looks more like a sales room at a trophy you win the next show." method. and ribbon manufacturing business Bill has designed all their costumes, Rose worked two years on her pre- than the family room it actually is. and Rose has done all the handsewing sent costume before it was ready to

Oklahoma TODAY UNCOMMON COMMON FOLK wear the first time; then she spent five twist and turn his head." That compe- The Thompsons are proud of their years adding to and changing it. Of this tition wasn't a first-place finish either. reserve championship awards, but they seven-year project Rose says, ''This is Some of those judges are obviously don't care much for the way they got omega, that's it, I'm not doin' any- narrow-minded kind of folks. them. In the world competition, what more. I've added everything we could Each year's world championship is called a "tie-breaking" judge is se- come up with, and you don't want to competition has three judges and any- lected from among the three who de- get too gaudy. That could work against where from five to 15 contestants in cide the outcome of each contest. That you. I just don't want to bead any- both the men's and ladies' groups. In judge is decided on the toss of a coin. more. I had a cupcake tray all set up the local shows, men and women com- In case of a tie, the choice of world with the beads and everywhere I went, Pete against each other; in the world champion is left solely up to the tie- I beaded." competition each gender has its own breaking judge. In the case of all three Although Appaloosas are the breed contest. Bill says of the times he and of Rose's reserve championships and the Thompsons raise, Rose's first ma- Rose are competing against each other, Bill's one, they received second place jor costume competition was on a pin- "I figure I'm beat every time. She because the tie-breaking judge gave to. In 1976 she won a 6-foot-tall wins 99 times out of 100." the nod to the person with whom they lifetime world championship trophy at "Well, I'm better," Rose explains. tied. It's tough to win such an impor- the All American Horse World Cham- "No, really. It's unfair to judge men tant competition into which you've put pionship competition. That year was and women against each other because an impressive amount of time, work the bicentennial of the pinto, and the the women can have more beadwork. and money on the toss of a coin. way she won makes a great story. The men don't use any beadwork on Winning is imponant to Rose and "You had to do some person in his- the horse except the breast collar." Bill. Before each competition, they ex- tory who contributed to our country's The complete costume for Rose and perience attacks of anxiety. "You're development," Rose recounts, "so I her horse consists of a shawl top (which scared to death your horse is going to chose Sacajawea. And I did The weighs 10 pounds), a skirt and belt, blow," admits Bill. "You're scared Lord's Prayer in Indian sign language. leggings and mocassins, wrist cuffs and he'll misplace a foot, trip or stumble. Bill had ridden this ol' horse to get him a hat. All of these leather pieces are Even if it's cold as the devil, you're real tired that day, because sometimes encrusted with beads. The horse has a sweating, I'll guarantee. The first time he'd buck with us. When I got off him bridle, neck and breast collars, cradle- I won a world championship, I rode to say The Lord's Prayer, he just put board with a purse that hangs on it and out of the arena and it was pouring rain his 01' head down to the ground be- a saddle bag. Beads are paved all over and I didn't give a damn. I just rode in cause he was so tired. Everyone these pieces, too, as well as a few that rain because I'd rode so many thought he was bowing." bells. When you add Rose's necklace, years trying to win, about five." Bill finishes the story with a grin, choker, knife, bone awl and black "It was longer than that for me," "When they applauded after it was all braided wig laced with white leather Rose says. "A long time, about seven over, it woke him up. He came up thongs and abalone shells, you see why years. I just figured I was going to ride with his head, and she won. It was Bill says, "It's a ton of laughs breaking until I won it and then quit. I lied. I perfect. This ol' boy from California a horse to carry all that junk, too, with went right back." Of the 1986 compe- said 'How long did it take you to teach the little bells a-jinglin' and the beads tition Rose says, "I really wanted to that horse to do that?' I said, 'A long, a-rattlin'." win that booger again. One more long time.' " If they don't break their horses to time." Of course, things don't always go carry the loads with grace and dignity, However, since she was awarded re- that smoothly when you're dealing the Thompsons risk losing part of the serve by the tie-breaking judge, Rose with animals. "One year," Bill says, "I 15 points possible in the horsemanship says, "We're going to try it again one had one come unbuckled with me and category. The two other categories in more time in 1987." She pauses for a buck down through the arena. I got the judging-authenticity of costume moment and smiles. "We say that ev- kicked out for not having my horse and overall appearance-are also ery year." under control. She ran over a judge worth 15 points each. The year Rose Here's hoping that Rose and Bill one time in Pryor. She knocked him won the world championship she re- bead the socks off the competition in down." ceived the full 45 points. The years this year's contest. "I didn't win that one," Rose adds she took the reserve world champion- unnecessarily. "And then one time ship, second place, she earned 43. The H~ .nomjn~fo,.~~,yncammon Bill's horse fell in love with mine be- scoring has been the same for Bill in Common FW? w,ifito Kadqn do cause they'd been stalled together. He his championship and reserve champi- Oklahoma TODAY, p.0. Box 53384, nickered the whole time, and he'd onship wins. ORkdoma Ciry, OK 73152.

NOVEMBER-DECEMBER '87 7 here's a bridegroom's gold- embroidered, red satin marriage vest from 18th century India; a parchment and leather Bible dating from Jerusalem circa 1500, not to mention a fanciful early 19th century spice container topped with a silver windmill from Holland. This curio trio is but the tantalizing tip of an international collection of objects beautiful and craftsmanly, sacred and homespun. And it's all Judaica-articles and art that define and reflect on 4,000 years of Jewish history, from the time of Moses to today. This proud repository of tradition is the Gershon and Rebecca Fenster Museum of Jewish Art. It's home is Tulsa, and it's considered the finest collection of Judaica in the Southwest. But it's not for Jews only. In fact, to paraphrase very, very loosely, Fenster director Annette B. Fromm, whose own ancestors trace back to the Jews who've inhabited Greece since classical times, the museum's credo is very Oklahoman indeed. It's you all come. The And come they do. From Muskogee honors student classes to Owasso senior citizen centers, day camps, Bible schools and church groups from Jenks to Verdigris, the museum has provided all of them and many more special FENSTER guided tours. Last year, visitors came from 38

72e siher spice box, circa 1900 from Holland, ti a tinlal ob~ectwed during Havadakzh, a ceremony petfonned at the close of the Sabbath on Saturday evening when bluing are said MUSEUM over a candle, a cup of wine and sweet-smelling spic~~. JEWISH ART

By Susan Everly-Douze Photographs by David Halpern gives the museum a special mission. "We encourage tours and visits from the non-Jewish community," she says. "By learning the culture, history and practices of Jews, they're learning something of their own heritage. It's an interface between the Jewish and non- Jewish community. It helps build a bridge of understanding." Increasingly, she says, some of the most interested visitors are fundamentalist and evangelical Christians. "They want to know more about our ceremonial objects, the Ark of the Covenant, the seven branch candle stand, the The photographs of the When and Kebma Fensfwfamily meaning of the lion and ram's horn symbols." (opposite page) and of Trope's Home and Mule Market, Museum visitors span all age groups. circa 1900 in Lavton, are included in the Oklahoma Jmish Adfves Project, which pomqs the Oklahoma Jmish expmenmce. Fromm's special favorites, however, are children. For them, a visit to the Fenster is far from just a routine trip to a stuffy museum. Not when states and 11 foreign countries. Attendance has Fromm is there, for example, with her pizza increased 25 percent over the year. The Fenster, slicer. Her object is to show the similarity of that considered at the top of the 50 smaller U.S. very 20th century fast food tool with a vintage museums specializing in Judaica, also is on the cutter for Matzoth, the flat, unleavened bread must-see list of cross-country travelers who are eaten by Jews during Passover. connoisseurs of the genre and already have Sometimes tours for the young museum critiqued the big seven U.S. Jewish museums, goers turn into treasure hunts. Fromm or one predominantly on the East and West coasts. of her 20-plus docents explains the meaning of "Most tell us we compare very favorably to various symbols that decorate one or two ritual them," Fromm says of the $400,000 collection that's her charge. In fact, it wasn't long ago Famed artist Boris Sdatz, who made he bras cabinet, eded that the prestigious Jewish Museum in New York his envisioned image of Baalel, the amit dtedwi1 creating City asked to borrow one of the Fenster's most the Ad of the Covenant, on the cabinet's uppwpo~'on. Schatz founded the Jeru.rnIm Baakl School of Aris and Crab. prized pieces, a sampler embroidered by a Jewish American pioneer woman, an exceptional combination of Americana and Jewish history. That's not bad for a tiny private museum, tucked in Tulsa's B'nai Emunah Synagogue, that was founded less than a quarter century ago by local Jewish families, including an endowment by Mr. and Mrs. Julius Sanditen, whose family founded Oklahoma's Otasco stores. Locally, its cultural compatriots include such free-standing heavyweights as Philbrook Museum of Art, housed in a magnificant Italian Renaissance Revival villa, and Gilcrease Museum, probably the foremost storehouse of art documenting the discovery and expansion of the American frontier. "I think we're Tulsa's best-kept secret, and I think we have a unique approach," says Fromm, a folklorist and Fulbright fellow who spent a year in Greece studying contemporary Jewish folklore. "The museum, perhaps, is better known outside Tulsa." This comes, in part, she says, because Tulsa has such a small Jewish community, about 3,000, or less than 1 percent of the city's population. This also lZeHhTorah, the fie books ofMma, is he most important o&ed in he sanctuary. And (inset) is thi guy for real or what? 7h-J%WBiMren look- ing over the dms of a 1980s member of the Hasidic sect am, from [&: ZucR B/oom, Anja Vaanen, John Bloom, Natasha Vaanen andMia Vaanen. -

objects. Then the children are turned Jews call the Hiddur Mitzvot. "It and the gift of its namesake, Gershon loose to seek the same symbols on means you should adorn the work of Fenster. The brass cabinet is embla- other pieces of the collection. God," Fromm says. "It means that zoned with bas-reliefs depicting Jewish "We're showing what a symbol is when a celebration requires a physical life. Dating back to about 1920, it's and that looking at things in a museum object for its performance, the object signed by Boris Schaa, founder of the goes beyond simply thinking, 'it's should be made as beautiful as possi- Jerusalem Bezalel School of Arts and pretty,' " she says. "It's teaching how ble." The adornments range from ritu- Crafts, now considered the foremost to really look at an object ...it trans- al objects used to adorn the Torah, the art school in Israel. Fenster presented forms a museum visit into a hands-on five books of Moses and the most sa- the cabinet to Rabbi Arthur Kahn of experience." cred of all the objects in a synagogue, the B'nai Emunah Synagogue. When That philosophy also has given a to covers for individual prayer books. Tulsa's museum of Judaica was first bright side to mistakes. Careful study Jews for centuries have called count- conceived, Kahn made Fenster's gift has shown that a few pieces in the less countries home. Translated to the the fledgling gallery's premier collection aren't what they were Hiddur Mitzvot, that's meant utilizing acquisition. thought to be, but replicas. No matter; the best of a nation's craftsmanship to Fenster, a Lithuanian immigrant, now they have a special purpose. decorate ritual objects. It can range came to Oklahoma in the early 1920s "They are still beautiful objects and from fine silver filigree of the Jews of and began work for the Sanditen fam- the children are free to handle them as Yemen to the splendid silk brocades ily's then embryonic Oklahoma Tire part of this hands-on experience," woven by the Jews of Bokhara in south Supply Co.By 1939, he held executive Fromm says. central Russia. positions. At the same time he earned Beautiful objects. That's a hallmark The museum is proud of its fine art. a reputation as a civic leader, a nation- of the Fenster. Its collection is rich There's a 1918 print by Abel Pann ally known Jewish leader and an art with precious metals, elegant filigrees, showing Jews being driven from their patron. For all three reasons the fine fabrics and intricate scroll work. homes by Russian cossacks. There's founders named the museum for him. The justification didn't come from also an oil painting by Max Rosenthal, The brass cabinet is magnificent, vanity, nor pride of position. It's considered the most formidable of 19th but Fenster would have been equally scriptural. century Jewish American artists. proud of the more humble objects giv- "This is my God and I will glorify One of the most beautiful of the en display at his namesake museum. him." That's Exodus 15:2. It's what Fenster's acquisitions is its very first- The Fenster, according to Fromm,

Oklahoma TODAY is much more than fine art. It's a cele- Synagogue for careful repairs. Later, home describing how German civilians bratory collage of Jewish life that the renewed sacred scrolls were dis- were forced by the Allies to give prop- shows the art of the temple but also tributed around the world. The Fen- er burials to the Jews who'd died dur- objects that reflect the Jewish home- ster proudly displays one. ing the Death Marches from the front. These range from a dreidel, a From the magnificently adorned Buchenwald concentration camp. child's toy top used during Hanukkah, Torah, the exhibit moves on to rituals "Many of the children are stunned to richly decorated marriage contracts of special holy days-Rosh Hashana, when they read it," Fromm says. and the mezzuzah, a doorpost scroll. Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Hanukkah, Pu- "What does six million really mean? Posting a mezuzah is by Jewish ritual rim and Passover, as well as objects of But this letter was the real McCoy. It the first requirement for moving into a daily Jewish life. gives meaning to it." new home. Once again this ritual ob- Textiles are a strong thread through- The letter was written by the soldier ject is adomed, and the Fenster's col- out the Fenster collection. At their to his mother in Wichita, Kansas. lection of mezuzah cases spans the most exotic they include 19th century That's significant. The Fenster is world from a gold embroidered cover bridal skirts from the Jewish communi- working to expand its collection of Ju- from Morocco to a Swiss version ty in Cochin, India, and a bridal dress daica that reflects the Jewish influence adomed with gold, lacquered wood from Morocco of silk-velvet lined with in this region. Currently, objects range and tortoise shell. linen and decorated with threads of from stained glass windows from a A tour through the museum, led by gold leaf. Houston synagogue to a kosher slaugh- Fromm or her docents, or simply a While rich textiles, such as mantles tering knife from a Rumanian immi- self-guided look through the well-la- of velvet and gold, used to cover the grant who settled in Kansas City in beled rooms is therefore a step into Torah are on display at the Fenster, 1885 and began a small Jewish com- Jewish heritage. there are other humbler fhbrics there. munity. There also are memorabilia It begins some 4,000 years ago with Such is the wimple. Used since the from Sapulpa and Muskogee, which oil lamps, a familiar object, from the 16th century by European Jews, it was both once had thriving synagogues. time "when Moses led the Jews out of the swaddling cloth that covered a "Jews," says Fromm, "have been in Egypt," says Fromm. "These oil baby boy during the circumcision cere- Oklahoma since the Land Run. We'd lamps were everyday objects. I tell the mony done on the eighth day after like to reflect that." children they were ancient birth. Later his mother or other female Tupperware." relative decorated the cloth with paint Susan Ever&-Douw k a writer for he The exhibit moves on to Torah or embroidery depicting every relevant Tulsa World. DdHaIpezn, an scrolls, handwritten on leather or detail from the date of the boy's birth. Okkzhoma-based photographer, ir a parchment from ritually "clean" ani- Ultimately, when the boy performed mtce of he Fmter Museum. mals. The Fenster's Torah scrolls are his religious rite of passage, the Bar collected from many nations. They're Mitzvah, the adorned wimple was adorned with finials, breast plates and used to bind the Torah during the pointers. The pointer, literal in design ceremony. with a hand at the end of the rod, is Although the emphasis of the collec- Getting ,.,.Y.III* used to prevent the reader from touch- tion is on the centuries of joyousness of Therei% ~enstcrMuseum b open 10 a.m. ing the text, which could damage it. Jewish ritual both in the synagogue 9 And that piece of information, like and the home, the Fenster doesn't ne- so much at the Fenster collection, glect the Holocaust, during which six to 4p.m.Tmdqdmugh Fdzy ondl to 4 leads a museum guide to one of a million Jews died. p.m. on Sue. i% museum and om string of fascinating stories. Again the collection offers an inter- an c/o& for he S&, Fhaby unring During World War 11, Fromm says, national span. There's a traditional Ira- ~ou&Satutrhy. Admission b J%C. Wid two wt& aabana no&, free tours the Nazis destroyed or maimed many nian anti-Hider scroll which depicts an ah0 avaikzbk for group of* or of the sacred Torahs. According to the Nazi leader defeated by his con- mom. Jewish law, those damaged or tom temporaries Roosevelt, Churchill and lk museum b hk?d at 1223 East could not be used in their battered Stalin, but in a centuries-old art form. 17d Plbcc in Tuhandcan b W b y condition nor could they be simply dis- At the opposite end, there's an Ameri- dnir'ng on Pmlia Amuc frwn 1-44 and carded. The Torahs had to be restored can greeting card that features Hitler's driving nod to 1705 Pkzce. i% m/..on 15 or stored until they could receive a caricature on a sheet of toilet paper. boustd in he sod part of B'nm' proper ritual burial. After the war, Of special interest to children, Emu& Synagogw. many of the damaged European To- Fromm says, is a letter from a young For mom informaion, d(918) rahs went to England's Westminister American soldier to his mother back 582-3732.

NOVEMBER-DECEMBER '87 U I!+ PICKIN', PLAYIN' PASSIN' .This year, about 35 students are playing it smart by -^ i"" complete an Associates of Art in Country Music at Kog h~-'! -:College in Claremore. That's right, the Hank Thompson See

IT' . a a Chuntry Music at Rogers College offers a degree program in whicL I: +=:,;'? - can get credit for pickin', twangin' and singin' your 01' heart v- /.% Studints in this program are taught rather specialized applic the three R's: they're readin' notes, 'ritin' songs and learni.. their 'rithmetic to -decipher the terms of professional con tracts. School director Darrel Magee, a multi- . talented musician whose specialty is the M2 guitar, explains how the world's first school of country music came into being. "In

h 7972, [they) wanted to do something that wow serve Cthe community and fH the area. They thought, What 6ettef thing than country musk?"-Dartel Magee

musiizn and t&. Wh-he ka&t at & OkMoma S&oo/for h Blind in Muskop, one of his ban& pk& on hou~snpntoim fiDm nrmroiy and took top honors at h Am&# Jam F&/. "On the flM day they come to clam, I say, 'Fimt thing I advise you to do Ts throw thst guitar away. Now, If you're not going to do that, then 1'11 teach you.'"-Eldon Shamblln

1972, Dr. Richard Mosier, our presi- on to a four-year college, we encourage slight edge in a business that's ex- dent, and Larry Fowler, then head of them not to major in country music tremely difficult to break into. community services, wanted to do because the courses won't transfer. The accomplishments of graduates something that would serve the com- What will transfer are music apprecia- suggest that might be a real possibility. munity and fit the area. They thought, tion, music theory and other general Students have played with Jana Jae, 'What better thing than country courses." Me1 McDaniel, Roy Clark and Reba music?' " Darrel feels that having an actual McEntire. They've sung with Sonny They wanted to name the school degree in country music generally James and recorded albums of their after a well-known Oklahoma country doesn't make a lot of difference in the own. Many former students make their music artist, and Hank Thompson, professional world. What matters most livings performing, returning to tell who's from Sand Springs, agreed to is how professional a musician is and their instructors that what they learned lend his name to the project when the how well he plays. However, working was indeed a preparation for the real two men asked him. intensely with the country music world. Darrel says, "We try to be com- Now in its 15th year, the country school's seasoned professional musi- pletely practical about it. If it's not music school's two-year program is one cians will educate a student in both good for something, then there's no of the most popular at Rogers College. those areas. In addition, Darrel be- use teaching it." Since the program began, two other lieves the degree just might provide a The Hank Thompson School facul- institutions-one in Texas and one in Mississippi-have begun offering de- grees in country music. In Oklahoma, Eldon Shamblin teacha hk sqle of plqing to Tim Medan. As on'ginal TmPlayboys, both Rose State College offers some country EMon and Lmn McAu/iffk were inducted into the Smihonian Institute as national tnmum. music courses, but no degree. Students at the Hank Thompson h School may choose from a greatest hits album of classes: Country Music In- dustry, Country Harmony, Recording Techniques, Country Music History, Piano Tuning, Country Choreography, Stage Personality, Songwriting and Ar- ranging for Country Bands are just a few. Then, too, they may opt for indi- vidualized lessons in guitar, steel gui- tar, bass, fiddle, banjo, harmonica and voice. Students also have their choice of several professional groups in which to perform for a semester's credit and a little extra "pick it" money. Depend- ing on their skills and specific areas of musical interest, they can join Windy River, a bluegrass band; The New Cimarron Band, a western swing group; The Great Southwest, a general country band, or Diamonds in the Rough, a gospel group. In addition to the 35 official majors in country music, the Hank Thompson School has about 40 other students who take classes while working to complete some other major. Darrel says, "If anyone is serious about going do instrumentally; that's why they're called entertainers. Eldon, who has provided individual- ized instruction in guitar for six years at the country music school, says of his beginnings as a hculty member, "I told Darrel 'I don't want to teach. I've quit teaching. I can't stand teaching.' He said, 'Yeah, but we just want you to teach the way you play. You don't have to teach rock and roll and non- sense like that.' That's exactly what I teach. Mostly, I tell them the things not to do. "On the first day they come to class, I say, 'First thing I advise you to do is throw that guitar away. Now, if you're not going to do that, then I'll teach you.' " As is the case with Leon, Eldon's value to his students is not only his musical expertise, but his experience. Leaning forward in his chair and stab- Leon McAult#ee's legendary tune, 'Steel Guitar Kag;. rs a ckzssrc. HCS famous for a lor oJ om bing the air with his forefinger, he says reasons, too, including recognition as the woMsfinat player of ~e counhy steel guitar. "I tell them, 'Hey, man, this is a high- ly competitive business and playing is ty proves that while experience may and teach, I said, 'How can I teach in a not enough. You've got to be reliable. make the best teacher, someone wz'd college when I didn't even graduate Your attitude is more important than experience comes in a close second. from high school?' your ability to play. Working with guys Faculty meetings gather in one room a "He told me that if I'd just tell the like Wills and Haggard, you finally variety of professionals who teach as kids the stories I told him, they'd learn learn to keep your mouth shut. If much by example and autobiographical a lot. Basically, that's what I'm doing. I you've got all these things you've got a anecdote as they do by direct teach music as an industry and give pretty good chance of making it if you instruction. them practical advice. They don't real- play fairly well. But if you play excep- Darrel Magee proudly reels off the ize that every time they step out the tionally well and don't have the other names and qualifications of his dozen door, there's another snake waiting for requirements, you ain't goin' to go or more full- and part-time teachers. them. They don't know to read the nowhere.' " The best known of the list are Leon fine print. That's how I got my knowl- In addition to help in musical ability McAuliffe, probably the world's finest edge, getting taken every step of the and professional behavior, the students player of country steel guitar, and El- road." are given time in a recording studio, all don Shamblin, master guitar player. "That's what Leon told me when he of the equipment for which Leon Both men are legends in the country started," Darrel interjects. "He told McAuliffe purchased and had in- music world for their own immense me, 'I ought to be qualified. I've lost stalled. The studio is run by Jeanne talents and for using those talents in money in every aspect of this Cahill, a talented musician who plays playing with Bob Wills, the undisput- business.' " everything but the accordion. Her mu- ed King of Western Swing. Leon claims that he has no interest sical speciality is bluegrass guitar, but "I was retired and had a radio station in teaching steel guitar. At hearing she's spent the last year learning to in Rogers, Arkansas," begins Leon that, Darrel says, "Eldon's discouraged play "the board,'' the complex group McAuliffe as he explains how a Texas him all these years." Eldon adds, of buttons, gizmos and gadgets that Playboy becomes an Oklahoma Profes- "Well, if he'd learn to play it, it'd be operate the recording equipment. sor. "I'd gotten out of the music busi- OK. You've got to learn to play before Darrel recruited Jeanne after hearing ness on a full-time scale back in 1965, you can teach." Such exchanges enliv- her perform in a musical contest in but I itched to be back in it. But when en all conversations with these folks. Nebraska. In addition to teaching re- Darrel said I ought to come over here They all play verbally as well as they cording techniques and leading the

NOVEMBER-DECEMBER '87 15 bluegrass band, Jeanne spends hours squares which were donated to the band I've ever had, 20 people. That's each day in the studio. She says, project. The effect of the design is a mixed blessing. Did you ever see a '"They have to leam by doing. I do a reminiscent of, appropriately enough, country band with that many people in lot of work with them as they arrange country patchwork. When the studio it!" and produce their own demo tapes so was nearing completion, Jeanne de- No, but then who's ever seen a they can have something when they nied Leon access for a time while she country band passing tests as well as leave to use for auditions or to pitch added a special, personal touch in trib- the hat or doing homework as well as their songs to different people and Ute to Leon for making the studio harmony? All these are common sights places." possible. at Rogers State College, where country Her full schedule of responsibilities Leon points to a large, gracefully music is a class act. leaves Jeanne little time for her own curving musical line that Jeanne pains- music. Of that drawback she says, "It takingly cut from white carpet and in- Kathryn Jenson White, an assktant takes hours of practice each day to fine set in the brightly colored wall. "See pmfmor ofjoumlkm at OkMoma tune yourself. I miss having that fine that?" he asks. "Four sharps; that's the Bapht Unbmi~,k an ardentfan of edge on my playing. My insides cry to key of E. Two-four; that's the time. cOun~-watm Bod fif%"Yand perform more than I'm able to with all Those five notes say 'Da, da, da, da, Jim AfEJ wiarconm'butoorrto Oklahoma TODAY. the work I have here. But I'd played dum.' " And what that translates to is with a road band for three years before the first two bars of Leon's most fam- coming here, be 50 and not how how ous song, "Steel Guitar Rag." A silent [n addition to the members alread to do anything but sing torch songs at musical tribute to the man who didn't named, the faculty of th Holiday Inns. There are things to learn want any public credit for his following, whose teaching specialitie here, like Eldon's style of playing generosity. follow their names: Karen Whish guitar." According to Darrel, most of the stu- gospel and country piano by ear; Js Jeanne was also responsible for dents realize how lucky they are to mieson Brown, steel and standar much of the design and actual con- have a quality studio in which to work guitar; Larry Me& harmonics struction of the studio, which she gazes and musical greats with whom to Rod Smith, fiddle; wnYater around with understandable pride. study. Sometimes, though, that real- fiddle; Joel Holcomb, banjo; Jir One of the money-saving, effective ization is slow. "Before Leon came," Frey, recording techniques; Su ideas she helped come up with was to he recalls, "a student who'd been tak- Straw, counay choreography, tour "deaden" one wall with carpet sample ing lessons from Eldon came up to me uy-western dancing, song writing one morning and said, 'Hey, you'll and Dean Porter, s&ged instn never believe what I saw on television CLAREMORE merit me also @ last night. 1 saw Eldon riding on a ~s~ctionfrom Shelby Either,wh stagecoach in a movie. It never OC- plays with Roy Clark, and JmaJa ,ll"UI<,,, curredknows towhatmehe'sthat doing.'he reallyAnotheris real stu-and GettingThere atheir schedules fiddle themplayer,timewhei dent said to me recently of both Eldon ClaremoE. Darrel Magee draws, tot %studen6 at the Hank Tlompson and Leon, 'It's amazing to me that 1 the talents of vocal instructF Sdoolrn of Country Music fmquent/y practice know them and they know me John Sample and psycholo~stDie] their tah6 outside leclassmom. On back.' " Clifton. Of the former, he says Nw. 59 neGmt Souhflt, a 16-membfl What's also slightly amazing is the "Early in my career, I found out thz mng band, will petform at t4e Will widespread response to the Program- you can't send a counuy music singe Rogm Celebation Breakfast at th Darrel names students from Germany to a regular voice teacher. They9 Clamon 'lubfmn 6:45 to 83P and Japan and mentions a letter of come back singing yourCheatir a.m. Admission will be the price of inquiry from Africa. In his first band breaRfmt. Heartv sounding like Caruso. ] ne Great Souh~~t,Win4 River Were students from Pennsylvania, won't sell, and besides it sounds grc b/wmband and th Country Gospel Ohio, Louisiana, Wisconsin and Arizo- tesque. John teaches them to us Choir will perfom for The Country na. And all this comes without adver- their voice like they want to-" H M~c(&~@(~mentconcert, s&edu/ed NW. tising since the budget is tight. uses Dick Clifton's knowledge in th 24 at 7:30 P.M. in the Rogm SIate The school's Success, as is SO often Stage Personality class, where sm Colkge Auditorium. Admission is free. the case, has brought a few problems dents need to understand the neHank nompsonfanrlg will@e with it. "we've OUtgrOWn ourselve~," plexity of human emotionif theyr ar 7p.m. in a country music mM Darrel says. "We need new kcilities, a to touch it with their music & colkge auditorium. Admission is fie. new buildling. b hi^ is the biggest -Oklahoma TODAY A Hank T.om~~onWhiz Kid

uzie Brandt, born and And a lot of times, sad to say, raised in Alva, is one of there's money involved. You the Hank Thompson School of need to have money to get out Country Music's budding suc- and promote yourself and get cess stories. Suzie began singing the right people to listen to professionally when she was just 10; she's 20 now. She's per- Suzie has also competed on formed at parties, clubs, fairs, The Nashville Network's talent benefits of all sorts and schools show, You Can Be A Stor. She during her 10 years as a country won the daily competition, but lost out in the weekly. Suzie "Really, the whole time we took the disappointment with were traveling when I was youn- grace. It seems that another of ger it was just something that the lessons she learned at the was fun," Suzie now recalls. "It country music school was that was something I did that set me ; the road to stardom is full of apart from other people my age. m detours and potholes. But I never really decided that "There are times," she says, this was really what I wanted to "when you think 'Gee, am I just do for myself until the summer I deluding myself? Is this really graduated from high school. We possible?' Sometimes you're went down to Gilley's and to down low and you think you're Nashville. Singing in those just banging your head against places really motivated me. the wall. Other times,. you'll "It was the atmosphere have several successes in a row around so many other perform- and things go along just great." ers. It was getting up and shar- - - Listening to the stories of facul- ing with people I'd never seen ty members who know not only before who lived hundreds of the musical but the professional miles away from my home. We had something in common: score and sharing her experiences with other students having music. I thought, This is what I want to do.' .'" similar ups and downs was a major part of life in Claremore. That Suzie spent her first year of college at Northwestern Oklahoma fellowship, along with her deep love of country music and the State University in Alva, but for her second year she decided to support of her parents, Jo and Leo, has kept Suzie determined to attend Rogers State College, where she could really do what she continue aiming for recognition. wanted to do. During the summer before her senior year in high For her 1987-88 school year Suzie is back at Northwestern school, while she was performing in Discoveryland's annual because she's decided that she must prepare a career to fall back production of Ok/ahotna!, Suzie had won a small scholarship to on if country singing doesn't work out. She won't stop perform- the Hank Thompson School of Country Music. When she talked ing whenever she can, but at the same time, she'll study to be an to folks at the school they offered more scholarship money, so elementary school teacher. she headed out to Claremore. Before Reba McEntire began to win the awards that would Jim Halsey, a nationally known booking agent, arranged for a now fill the bed of a pickup, she, too, attended a state college student to represent the country music school on The Nashville and majored in elementary education just in case she couldn't Network's show, Nmh/b Now. Suzie was selected. On that support herself by singing. Hopefully, Suzie will spend as much nationally televised cable show she sang "Cowboy Sweetheart," time teaching the alphabet to second graders as Reba McEntire a yodeling song that Suzie does with power and grace. The has. With Suzie's talent, the push she's gotten from the Hank audience loved her. Thompson School of Country Music and a little luck, it's possi- However, one of the lessons Suzie learned at the country ble she, too, will end up wiping stardust rather than chalkdust music school is that audience love isn't enough. "There's so from her fingers. much more involved than talent even," she says wisely. "There's a lot of luck, being in the right place at the right time. -Kathryn Jenson Whae By Burnis Argo Photographs by Jim Argo

Oklahoma TODAY hristmas is a time for remembering, and what memories could be more special than those of childhood treasures-our toys. The puzzles, the dolls, the cars, theC games. They float through our thoughts looking as bright and new as on that long ago holiday when they first became ours. A lucky few still have some of these prizes tucked away in the back of a closet or the comer of the attic. Others aren't so fortunate and must be content with just remembering those Christmas morn- ing surprises under the tree. The first toys were probably smooth stones, sticks and oddly shaped bones which cave dwellers used to fill the empty moments in their young lives. Objects identified as toys have been found in Chinese, Roman, Greek and Egyptian burial sites. They also have been discovered in the remains of the Mayan and Aztec cultures of the North American hemisphere. The children of Jamestown and Plym- outh had toys, too. The factory or shop-made toys were brought with the colonists from Europe. Hand- made toys were made in homes. Toys really came into their own shortly after the Civil War due to new manufacturing technologies as well as the growing affluence of adults who were, in turn, willing to part with some of that wealth to buy toys for the children in their lives. Collecting antique toys is a rapidly growing hobby and one which has sent the prices of many collectibles soaring far past the reach of most of us. Still, there are prizes to be found in garage sales, swap meets, auc- tions and antique stores. The person who owns what is probably the larg- est toy collection in Oklahoma has been collecting for 30 years. Tom Hoch is a quiet, almost shy man until he picks up one of his toys. Then his eyes begin to sparkle, a smile lights his face and he begins to talk. Hoch, who lives in Oklahoma City, remembers his own early toys as being "the kind made from spools, fudgecicle sticks and rubber bands." "The first real toy train I can ever remember seeing was my brother's train," he says. "It was a Walt Disney with Pluto as the engineer." Hoch liked trains all right, but what he was really interested in were big trucks, in particular the big Buddy L uucks. The Buddy L Company of East Moline, Illinois, was the manufacturer of some of the

Tom Hod, (above)hoMing a 1938 Amde buck, /urr 1,200 antique toys in his colk~non.In jivnt of him are a fafmorita, whidr am, clockwise from him: a 1928 Hub& hook and kzdderfire &, a 1920 Mam Dapper Dan Dancer, a f 930 Chrysh Air-Flow car, a 1 910 Amad honedrmn hook and ladder pumper, a 193 7 Hublg pumper td,a 1938 Balhin MeRed Hen, a 1928 Hubley windup red racer, a 1 938 Mam tanR and an 1875 Gennan carousel with fling boats. Or.rare toys (left)are a 1945 Do~atdRank, an 1889 Mother Goose block with a f 938 Tootsietoy car simng on top and a 1938 An4 Gump car.

NOVEMBER-DECEMBER '87 19 largest and toughest toy vehicles ever made. Hoch picked the things out and they all seemed really didn't get the toy of his dreams when he was a child pleased." but today he has more than 70 of the large Buddy L When Hoch's collection grew so large it spilled toys in his collection. out of his house and into storage in the warehouse "I really like the Buddy L's, especially the big where he has his offices, he decided it was time to trucks," he says, pointing to a few on the shelves start sharing his hobby with other people. lining a room of his home. "I put together a traveling exhibit which is taken Hoch started collecting toys in 1957 although he to shopping malls in a 40-foot truck," he says. "I might have thought twice if he had known just how picked out things that appealed to me to put in the large his hobby would one day grow. A commercial exhibit." interior designer specializing in hotels, restaurants and The exhibit goes out on tour November 1 and country clubs, Hoch frequently found himself out on comes back in February. At that time the cases are the road on business with time on his hands in the repaired, repainted and Hoch takes some of the toys evenings and on weekends. out and puts others in so the exhibit isn't exactly the "I started going to auctions and sales for some- same from year to year. Called "Yesterday's Child," thing to do," Hoch says. "I noticed the toys and the collection includes about 1,000 pieces which are decided that would be something I could easily col- valued at over $250,000. The toys are carried and lect. They weren't so popular as collectibles then so displayed in 33 specially made cases which Jim Man- they were not very expensive." Many also were fairly kin, who travels with the exhibit, says fit into the small and were easy to pack and take back home. truck "like a giant jigsaw puzzle." The first toy he bought was a metal and wood "You really have to follow the diagram when they Irish mail cart made in about 1870. It is still one of the are loaded in the truck or believe me, they won't all oldest toys in his collection. Most of Hoch's toys were fit," he says, laughing. made before 1950. Mankin began traveling with the exhibit last win- Hoch's own special favorite toy, other than the ter, and he says he was surprised at the crowds the Buddy L's, is a little Andy Gump car which he bought exhibit attracts. for $40 in the late 1950s. "We were in Phoenix at a mall located in an area "It's worth $1,500 now," he says, shaking his of mostly retired people and they absolutely stormed head. "I personally think that is too much." that place," he says. To further illustrate the boom in the antique toy Mankin says the exhibit tends to attract children market he points to a Buddy L toy he bought in 1972 and older people, although all age groups show up to for $60. look. "It is worth $900 now, and I could put that in a "The children tend to jump around from case to magazine today and get 10 calls from people wanting case, always looking for something 'neater' than the it," he says. thing they just saw," Mankin says. "The older people, Hoch's wife Joanne says one of her favorite toys is say 40 on up, tend to study everything very closely a windup carousel featuring flying boats. and slowly." Both the Hochs like the Christmas season. Al- He says all viewers tend to look first at the large though they have many toys on permanent display in toys and then notice the smaller ones and go back to their home on shelves and in specially built and light- study them. ed display cases, they feel Christmas is one time of the Mankin says he has found himself becoming year they can set out as many toys as they want more educated about the toys since the people who anywhere in the house because toys and Christmas come to see them will frequently visit with him while just seem to go together. they are looking, asking questions and telling him The couple has four children, all college age and things about similar toys from their own past. above, who last Christmas found themselves in a posi- "I didn't really know too much about antique tion many adults probably would secretly envy. On toys when I started this, but I have been trying to read Christmas morning, each of them received a toy. a little and am beginning to pick up lots of informa- "I decided to start giving some of my duplicates tion," Mankin says. to our children now that I have a computer so I can Hoch has had the large traveling exhibit at Cross- keep track of what I have and know for sure when I do roads Mall in Oklahoma City. He also has taken spe- have duplicates. It was difficult for me to decide what cial smaller exhibits, such as the antique mechanical to part with," Hoch admits. "I kept asking my wife banks that were displayed in Guthrie last December, 'Do you think they really want these?' but finally I to other places in Oklahoma.

Oklahoma TODAY I& toD: a 1920 B& L klnR aR,1927 Wandonk and mrt, a 1939 Gm 1940 facea& and m"pLnes, a 19% Mam tak,a grot@ of1530 to 1950 Hub& moors, a 1930 Bdfy L tnmb,and a I940 Hubby hqbalk.

Generally, though, interest in having the large toy, a part of its history. I think the kid who had this exhibit seems to come from other states, from Michi- uuck probably spent a lot of precious time with this gan, Texas, Aximna and California. The exhibit has toy. To me it has as much character as a good traveled to Chicago five times. painting." Qi People who see the toys for the first time might wonder why many of them are scarred and chipped IZe Argos, who lioe in Ea'mond, jhymt4 cettduks &r instead of restored and repainted to original condition. klkn~rto Oklahoma TODAY. "I uy to leave them the way they are because I think that adds to them," Hoch says. "To me they look like sculpture." Holding up a small toy which had in Oklahoma during the coming months, but Jim once received some extra touching up with paint, the Mankin says anyone who is interested in hosting the toy collector continues: "Some kid obviously painted display can call him at (405) 478-4970 for details. this and that makes it pan of what happened to this

NOVEMBER-DECEMBER '87 21 Photographs- by Jim Argo- The day darkens. Shadows skulk between buildings and across dusky skylines. "lust as the world turns black, switches flip across America and the night comes alive, lit by jeweled colors that flash and spin, sizzle and pop,

excite and energize those who move through the night. For the weary, wary traveler seeking a haven down a lonely highway, it's a welcome signal that leaps out of the sky and points toward human comforts and contacts.

OPEN

EATS

VACANCY

For those who relish the anticipation of the midnight hours, it's a lure to the I mysteries of magical illusions. BAR & GRILL

DOUBLE FEATURE

DIME A DANCE

For a gentle craftsman like Roy Lopshire, it's an intriguing science of glass and gas that communicates a commercial message in unique style. For a flamboyant artist like Kather- ine Reynolds, it's an expression of col- or, light and mood on a velvety black canvas to stimulate the senses.

NEON

Georges Claude, a Frenchman, de- veloped neon lumination in 1910, and by the 1920s it had made its way to the urban areas of the United States. It remained a novelty until the next de- cade, when garish, gaudy and wonder- ful neon scenery spread across New York City's Times Square, and Ameri- cans read its messages as a symbol of enterprise, glamor and promise of all that America dreamed about in the 1930s. Throughout the 1940s, neon was , the most widely used source of illumi- 1 nated advertising, enjoying a surge 1 during the affluent postwar consumer- ism. But the America of the '50s recon- sidered its technology-it went 1 plastic-and its morality-it became

24 Oklahoma TODAY subdued, rejecting the dazzling accou- which he topped an ice cream parlor's ting. A progression from stained glass terments it related to vice and deca- logo; the sparkling green he created for art to neon in glass seemed natural for dence. Fluorescent lighting was a nightclub's exotic palm tree; the soft her, she says. "I fell madly in love with created; backlighted plastic signs were yellow he curved into a &foot hot dog neon. I wanted to learn how to do it." patented, and these outshone other ad- bun. With some formal training, she also vertising forms for the next 20 years. Between the tubes, he hooks up an found a veteran bender to coach her. Neon went out of date and out of electric circuit, then attaches the ends She learned, "It's not a real glamorous the realm of good taste. to a transformer. Lopshire dims the art. It's hot standing over the fire. But the flashy lights only flickered. lights in his workshop, for although he Painting is a glamorous art." By the 1970s fine artists were discover- knows what the end product will be, And along with the technology, her ing the creative possibilities of the he loves the full effect. In the dim- artist's eye picked up the aesthetics. twisted tubes of liquid color. ness, the tubes flash, then settle down "It's sensual, like the night," and "You put gas into a sealed tube with to a hot, steamy glow. unlike plastic lighting. "With plastic something that will charge the gas There are only a few left like Roy you don't have the sensuality or the from end to end-that's pretty fantas- Lopshire, and the industry values such visibility. You can see plastic for a tic! Then somebody figured out it old masters. A veteran of Claude Fed- mile. You can see neon for 12 miles." didn't have to be straight," says Okla- eral Company, one of Oklahoma City's Reynolds, whose work is shown at homa City artist Katherine Reynolds. premier sign companies, and until re- Arts Place I1 in Oklahoma City, does The old glass men had known it all cently owner of his own shop, Lop- both wall hangings and free-standing along. shire this summer sold his business to a sculptures, from personalized signs for Roy Lopshire learned neon in the corporate signmaker. That company home recreation areas to a 24-foot-long 1930s by a traditional method. Al- signed the 79-year-old craftsman to a skyline mural in the Shawnee Holiday though schools are available now, he five-year contract. Lopshire, who re- Inn. No longer, she says, do people apprenticed to a glass man who had grets that the field isn't attracting associate the bright lights with the dark leamed it from a glass man ... younger interests, speculates that the underworld. In the trade, he's known as a bend- big company bought his expertise for "It's everywhere. Not just casinos er, the artisan who heats and bends the the sum they paid for his business. and bars, but homes and decorating glass to the diagram a designer has laid "There may be other benders shops. It's become an art form." out, fills it with gas and provides the around," he says, "but not very good In Kathy Reynolds, the medium charge. Benders, though they may ones." meets the artist. She has pondered the have artistic dreams of their own, are Lopshire has lit some of Oklahoma romance of the garish glow against the hired by sign manufacturers to execute City's favorite historical sites. He lived black backdrop. Reynolds, who habit- the plans their artists draw up. through the era of the glamorous ually goes to her studio at dusk and Yet, no neon sign is ever mass downtown movie houses; he worked works through until day begins to di- produced. on the dazzling marquee of the famed 1 lute the cover of darkness, confesses, Benders measure the tubes against Criterion theater. "I'm a night person. I rally at night. I the designers' blueprints, heat a flame A properly constructed neon sign can create my own light." over a gas canister and expertly move a will burn indefinitely, but human She says, "People live in cities now. tube across the sputtering fire, turning tastes change, and many of his works They work 9 to 5, they go to work it quickly so it will soften precisely have made way for more modern edi- every day and don't see daylight. where the curves are needed. Instinc- fices. Some of those he's decorated, When dusk hits, the lights come on tively, Lopshire twists the tube at just too. Trendy restaurant logos are an im- and the whole world changes." the right moment, shaping in the air portant part of his business now. That may explain the logical reasons the letters and forms. Immediately, he The other important part of the people are drawn to the bold lights. fits his mouth to the end of the tube neon trade isn't on the streets. It's in Reynolds also explains the emotional and fills the corners with air before the galleries and at art shows, created by ones. glass hardens. artists who decided neon items weren't "The neon just grabs you from far, Neon and argon gases create the vi- gauche and tasteless after all, but a far away. It sees you before you see it. brant colors. Tinted tubes vary the challenging medium they wanted to I swear it does." schemes. Neon does not offer a wide master. range of hues, but Lopshire favors the Los Angeles now boasts a Museum Ann DeFrange and Jim Argo are a sharp jewel tones. Recalling some of of Neon Art, but in Oklahoma City frequmt team for Oklahoma TODAY his past commissions, he nostalgically Kathy Reynolds was among the first to and 'The Daily Oklahoman, where describes the ruby red cherry with put her neon work in an art show set- bob hold staff positions.

NOVEMBER-DECEMBER '87 25 SacredHeart Mission

n a fall day in 1875, a black- A formal outdoor pmcession, 0 robed Benedictine monk (above) &a reined his tired team on a wild and 1885, with a priest isolated hillside in what is present- and his young day Pottawatomie County. Father darges was a Isidore Robot and his fellow monk [ common si@ at on the wagon seat beside him had the wzhsion, buik in been sent to America bv an austere 1 the wikierness monastery in the wilds of the i sight miles east of French Pyrenees. : bmetzt-day In the Middle Ages the Benedic- 1 hher. fie frian' rnusica/ band, tines had kept learning and litera- i (left)photographed ture alive behind the great stone in 1898, walls of their monasteries. But in the rhowed an alternate mid-19th century the monks at side of a spare, Pierre-qui-Vire, France, believed it iroiated /ifaryle. was their mission to carry Christian- ity and education to the Indians in build their first rude buildings for monks and Sisters survived torna- America. school and living facilities with their does and blizzards, rattlesnakes and Smallpox wiped out Father Isi- own hands. malaria to build Sacred Heart, and dore Robot's first mission in Louisi- In 1880, the first nuns from New their legacy lives on through their ana. People tried to tell him Indian Orleans arrived to take on teaching descendants, who educate and heal Territory was too isolated, the life duties at the mission. They packed elsewhere in Oklahoma. there too harsh. A Catholic educa- up and left four years later. Father The Benedictines went on from tional institution would not survive. Robot then called five Sisters of Sacred Heart to build St. Gregory's But the hardy French monk Mercy from their home in Illinois. College in Shawnee. The Sisters of would not be discouraged. So that The Sisters of this Order, founded Mercy founded numerous educa- October, accompanied by Brother 50 years before in Ireland, were of tional and medical facilities across Dominic Lambert, Father Robot tougher stuff than their predeces- the state, including St. Mary's Acad- traveled to Atoka and then made the sors. They maintained a school at emy and Mercy Health Center in arduous 70-mile wagon trip, fording Sacred Heart long after the Benedic- Oklahoma City. the treacherous South Canadian to tine monks had moved north to At one time, an abbey, boarding arrive at this site in Indian Territory. Shawnee. schools, vocational education facili- Here, Robot declared, he and other Oklahoma's legendary athlete Jim ties, a college, workshops and dor- French Benedictine monks would Thorpe was educated at Sacred mitories stood where today's breezes build their mission to the Indians. Heart. So was Patrick Hurley, sol- carry the spiced perfume from the At first, the seven monks lived in dier and diplomat who served as thorny hedge of Hardy Orange over tents and shanties. Their monastery U.S. Secretary of War from 1929-33 the weathered sandstone founda- at Pierre-qui-Vire could provide lit- and later Ambassador to China in tions of the long-vanished buildings tle financial support. The monks 1944-45. But old Sacred Heart Mis- of Sacred Heart. had to grow their own food and sion is in ruins today. The tireless Today, the site is cloaked with an

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atmosphere of wild isolation almost was pretty isolated. Sacred Heart it was over, the blaze had taken the as strong as in the 1870s when Fa- was 70 miles from the railroad. To monastery, boys' school, college, ther Robot arrived. The black-robed get out there you had to go first to girls' school, the convent and the monks are gone. No wimpled Sis- Atoka, and at the very fastest it was church. ters of Mercy teach the children. a two-day trip to Sacred Heart-if "One of the old French priests The road is overgrown, the elms and you could ford the South said the fire was a terrible thing, but the bois &arc arch a leaved canopy Canadian." it was probably the only way in the overhead. The monks lived a severe exis- world they could have gotten rid of Coming out into the sun again at tence. "The old variety of French the bedbugs," Father Joseph says. the top of the hill you discover two monasticism they brought here was Bedbugs were a problem at Sa- structures that survived both a fire in very strict. It's ironic that until about cred Heart, but the isolated location 1901and the ravages of time. Across 1892, it was against the rules to eat was an even greater one. After much a knee-deep carpet of tiny golden meat, and the area around Sacred consideration, the Abbot made a de- wildflowers the arched doorway Heart abounded with deer, rabbits cision to move closer to the railroad. stands open to the old stone bakery. and wild turkeys. They depended "They made an arrangement to Beyond sits an old two-story log cab- mainly on cereals and bread. And it come to Shawnee in 1909 and start- in looking as rough and intrepid as wasn't wheat-raising country, so all ed construction of St. Gregory's in the old French monks who weath- the flour had to be brought from the 1912," Father Joseph says. "They ered the rigorous early days at Sa- railroad by wagon, The only sub- closed down everything at Sacred cred Heart. stantial building they built in those Heart in the fall of 1915 except the A third building still standing on early days was the bakery where elementary school." the Sacred Heart site is built of over- they baked those big French The important work of the Orders sized cement blocks and was proba- loaves." who founded Sacred Heart was bly used as a granary. Across a path But despite the harsh environ- transferred to Shawnee and Oklaho- behind an iron gate is the tree- ment and isolation, by 1880 Father ma City. Sacred Heart was almost shaped monk's cemetery. A weath- Robot had buildings for boarding forgotten until the 1960s when ered bronze plaque identifies the schools. Nuns were running a school CRASH, Inc., the Committee for resting place of Father Isidore Ro- for girls. the Restoration of Ancient Sacred bot, who founded the mission. Next The diary of a young Frenchman Heart restored two of the buildings. to him lies Abbot Bernard Murphy, who freighted supplies into Sacred In 1983, the site was awarded its who struggled to rebuild after the Heart describes the mission in 1884. place on the National Register of devastating fire that destroyed most A towering statue of the Sacred Historic Places and the U.S. Depart- of Sacred Heart in 1901. Heart of Jesus atop the great monas- ment of the Interior placed the large Beyond Robot and Murphy lies tery building served as a beacon to granite marker on the road j,ust op- Brother John Laracy, a lay Benedic- weary travelers passing through the posite the spired Sacred Heart tine, whose writings draw a vivid area. There was a convent for the Church just off the Konawa Asher picture of the austere life at the early Sisters, a school for the girls, stables, road. mission. Even though the monks employees' houses, blacksmith Award-winning mystery novelist spent their days at physical labor in shop, tool house, carpenter shop Tony Hillerman grew up in the Sa- the gardens, woods, fields or quarry, and, of course, the bakery. cred Heart area. He remembers they were not allowed meat. Brother There were 13 priests at the mis- teenage escapades sneaking into the Laracy described the meager ra- sion and the restriction against meat deserted grounds. "Even though it tions: "Breakfast: bread and coffee, had been lifted. They were calling was abandoned, you had a feeling dinner: soup and vegetables and the mission Sacred Heart College that you were in some old monastery supper: rice and three prunes, and because they were training people in in the mountainous wilds of south- no more." the upper division for seminary. em France," he says. Father Joseph Murphy is the best The isolation was alleviated by The lingering aura of monastic authority on old Sacred Heart Mis- travelers. tranquillity that so impressed Tony sion. The retired Benedictine, for- "The military trail from Fort Hillerman still hovers over the ruins merly Chairman of the Department Smith to Fort Sill ran south of the of Sacred Heart. And in the monk's of Social Studies at St. Gregory's river," Father Joseph says. "The cemetery under the drape of crape College, chronicled the hardships soldiers often stopped at Sacred myrtle the grave of Brother John and successes of the mission in his Heart, And there was the north to Laracy reminds us that there was a book TWOUF Monks, published for south traffic, people going to Tex- day when supper at old Sacred the Sacred Heart Centennial in as." Heart was rice and three prunes- 1976. But the death blow came to Sa- and no more. Father Murphy agrees that life cred Heart Mission when a fire was difficult at the old Sacred Heart. broke out in the kitchen on a bliz- Jane BecRman, who l2.w in Waltm, "The location Father Robot picked zardy night in January 1901. Before wn?a forstate andnationdpublicatiom.

NOVEMBER-DECEMBER '87 The word photography means writing or drawing with light. Photographers, then, are artists who communicate with light. Oklahoma TODAY is best known for its photography, and the credit for that must be given to those who conceive the images. In this Portfolio, we asked the photographers to speak with words as well as light, to give insights into the thought, the talent, the effort required to create their magic.

RIGHT: A windmill at sunset, Woods County "The magic is in the mood of the day and in your mood. You have days you feel more serene and those are the days that nice, peaceful shots seem to appear in the camera" -Lloyd Brockus, Aha

Novembet- foliage, Tahlequah

"I wasn't getting what I wanted down on the (Illinois) river, and when we were coming I back to town the tree just I jumped out at me. I tried all angles, but it just didn't seem to be working. Finally, I went back to my truck, and I thought I'd try I one more time. his I shot ended up being the last one I took." I -Guy D. Folger, McAIester

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A fresh snowfall in Bartlesville's Johnstone Park

"We were sitting in my office taking about the snow and dyided to go out for a couple of hours. I wasn't dressed for it; I had on dress slacks and a blazer. When it snows, all of a sudden Nature says, 'Here's a clean me.' " -Jerry Poppenhouse, Bardesville

A leaf in an ice-covered fence, Broken Arrow ''When it snows, I just can't seem to photograph fast enough. When I was out that day, everywhere I looked I saw another photograph. Even the most mundane things looked beautiful covered with snow and ice." -Rita DeDominickfIhe Pictureworks. Tule

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A view of the sunset from the top of Mount Scott, Wichita Mountains "I don't photograph for symbolism, but for whatever visual communication I can offer. It's more like music, it comes from a different part of the spirit Some things are not very readily expressed in concrete language, but I think they're pretty clearly understood in a photograph or a piece of music."-Richard Smith, a high school band director from Oklahoma City

NOVEMBER-DECEMBER '87 31 Tufted Titmouse,near Lake Eufaula "I'd put a bird feeder out because birds have a hard time in the winter. I was watching from a photographic blind about 15 feet away and had been there several hours. The Tufted Titmouse are gentlemanly little bids and will wait their turns at the feeder. They'll take one seed and then fly to another location to peck it. They're very patient bids." -David VinyadVinyad Brothers Photography, Mustang

Oklahoma TODAY Two strollers in Haikey Creek Park Broken Arroh "I've been working with film four years. I have a daughter who is a gymnast, and I bought a camera to photograph her. My first pictures came out black, so I took a class. My teacher encowaged me, and ever since I started looking through that little viewfinder, I can't get ~IIOU& phot~&&y." -Rita DeDominicMIhe Pictureworks, Tulsa

NOVEMBER-DECEMBER '87 A PICTURE-PERFECT WINTER

Oklahoma's picture-perfect state parks are the setting for

photography contest. We are looking for photographs that offer an imaginative look at scenery, outdoor recreation and wildlife in Oklahoma's state parks. Photographs must be taken on or after Oct. 1, 1987, 1 to be eligible. 5 < 80 watch a pat homed owl while txploring Bmm Bend State Pad.

GRAND PRIZE, Professionel: Threeday, two- DIVISIONS CATEGORIES night stay for two in state park/resort of choice. 1. Amateur Photographers may enter two photo- 3. Professional graphs in each of the following: First Place in each category: Two-day. one-night 5. Children, aged 12 and under photo expedition in an Oklahoma state park, guided by 1. State park scenic a park naturalist. Lodging provided. (Including parents ------or guardian of winners in the children's division.) 1 park 2. State wildlife Second Place in each category: A one-year subscrip 3. State park outdoor recreation tion to Oklahoma TODAY, the offtcial state magazine. Third Place in each category: Oklahoma state park t- PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST Photographs from the three divisions will be shirt. judged andprizes will be manid in ead of he *In addition to the first, second and third prizes in each ENTRY FORM category, every child who enters the contest will receive three catgon'es. a special Oklahoma state park patch and certificate. DIVISION (check one) PUBLICATION: Grand Prize photographs will be Amateur AWARDS published in an issue of Ok&homa TODAY. Professional GRAND PRIZE, Amateur: Two-day, one-night (OKLAHOMA TODAY mnva the ridt nor to ma/ a photo expedition with nationally known Oklahoma pkin any divicion in dh4 no mcpkzbk pkoto Am been Child(aged 12 and under) photographer David Fitzgerald. Lodging pmvided. &. l CATEGORY (check one) Statepark scenic Statepark wildlife RULES Statepark outdoor recreation 1. Eligibility. All persons except employees of the Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Deparnnent and the Department of Wildlife Conservation or members of their immediate families are eligible to enter. For the O~&~OIRU I SWcompetition, a photographer is considered an amateur if that person earns less than half of his or her annual Caption (complete identification of subjects, I income from the profession of photography, including teaching. Professional photographers are those who earn half or animals or activities shown) more of their income from the profession of photography. I 2. Entries. Photographs must have been taken in an Oklahoma state park on or after Oct. 1, 1987. Amateur and professional entries must be color transparencies (35 mm or larger). Polamid prints are not amptable. State park where taken I 3. Judging. All entries will be judged based on technical merit, composition and inventiveness of subject matter by I photographer David Fitzgerald, the Okkdoma TODAY Editor and the Director of State Parks. Date taken 4. How to enter. For each entry, fill in an entry form and fasten it securely to the entry. Additional forms may be I photocopied or obtained from Okluhoma 7nDAYs offices. Mounted transparencies must have entrant's name and Name of entrant I address on the mount. Two photographs may be entered in each category for a maximum of six photographs per entrant. No photograph can be entered in more than one category. 5. Submitting your entries. There is no entry fee. Address entries to Oklahoma 7ODAY Photo Contest. P.O. Box Address 53384, Oklahoma City, OK 73152. Or you may hand-deliver entries to Oklahoma TODAY at 401 Will Rogers Building, Oklahoma City, during office hours. Please protect entries by encasing them in plastic sleeves and packing them City State ZIP I properly. Only entries which are accompanied by self-addressed envelopes with sufficient postage will be returned. Allow 90 days after the contest deadline for the return of entries. Winning entries will not be returned until after Home Telephone ( )Work Telephone ( ) I publication in Okluhoma TODAY. I 6. DEADLINE for the receipt of entries is March 31, 1988. I Signature of entrant 7. Only photographs taken by the entrant will be accepted. I 8. The Department of Tourism and Recreation assumes no responsibility for loss or damage of transparencies Attach one form per entry. Additional forms mail- ( submitted; however, all reasonable care will be taken. able at Oklahoma TODAY, 401 Will Rogen 9. Signed releases of persons appearing in winning photographs may be required prior to awarding any prize. All I contestants will retain ownership of their photographs. Winners will be required to attest that they meet the eligibility BuiMing, Oklahoma Ciry, OK 73152 or entry requirement in their division and that they are the sole owners of the winning photographs. By signing the entry forms may be photocopied. Entries must be re- I form, each entrant grants the Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Depanment the right to publish his or her ceived by Mad 31, 1988. I photographs, as well as to use them for promotional and advertising purposes, at no charge. I By Kathryn Jenson White t Photos by Steve Sisney I

As the next few pages prove beyond a doubt. Oklahoma is one big Santa's Workshop. While searching out this collection of ~rniqueand \vonderfi~l<:hristmas gifts made in Oklahorna b>- Oklahomans, we found talented artisans bvorking busily in small studios and large fixtones to produce beautifully crafted gifts for you and those you lo\-e. We also found a \vealth of activih gifts-places to go and things to see-guaranteed to satisfy 1 e\.en taste. When \vord of this reaches the North I'ole, Santa Inay \veil decide to relocate in the Sooner State. Can't you hear hi111 no\v? "Okla- ho-ho-110-ma, here I corne!" Gmfgp ideas for diMm are: he Gatveys' wagon and b/o& $30; Beth Belay's baby bonnet,$ZO,and bib, $22; aquiri~framed, Gennan scherenschnitte, $12.50 to $15, and Come Home to Oklahoma's bhck rabbit, $22, and tea-stained rabbit, $$1.50.

Ann's Dolb, Altus. (405) 482-8561. beautiful wooden wagons and child-sized A mmy teepee is just what every rocking chairs. $35 and $50. Jim and

These giant bubble wands come with

652-4740. (Not shown) smiling Clowns or winsome Country Cousins? $15 each. Evelyn Sutton, just for Easter. Tea-stained rabbit (12 inches), $14.50; Black-dressed rabbit (12 inches), $22. Come Home to Oklahoma, Sapulpa. (918) 224-2254.

Beth Bolay's hand-sewn and hand- sufP&6: Pw smocked bonnets, bibs or collars. Prices chihi- start at $12. Cedar Corner Classics, $60; Orlando. (405) 455-2282.

wool produced by Oklahoma sheep. Eula would also please someone older as a

376-4189. TASTEFUL TREATS 1 - A tisket, a tasket, an Oklahoma Gift Basket. Karen Mellgren and Janet Gatlin of Norman offer an evergrowing variety of sizes and assortments in their food baskets filled with edible delights from Oklahoma. Prices start at $20. Oklahoma Gift Baskets, Inc., Norman. (405) 321- 8777.

Cindy Massa of Cmnch's Favorite stirs up delicious fruit cakes, candy roses and daffodils and various assortments of handmade chocolates. Prices start at $2. Available at Sweet Ideas on Britton Road in OKC or Crunch's Favorite, Mannford. (918) 865-2900.

Find edible gift possibilities for everyone fmm gourmets to plain 01' gobblers at Scott Farms. They've got dip mixes, Seasoned Greetings cards, honey jelly and assorted gift packages and baskets. Prices start at $1.50 for di~- -- mixes. Scots Farms, Duke. (405) 679- ~kkdoma-:hap&cA&izr bhk fiom Waronga Che,$4.65; Okhhorna Cif/ Barket's ~~OR'S 3747. doice, $43.50, andhe Souhat Kenle, $10.50, anddp mim, $1.50, bo& from Scon Fanns. I a. Prices start at $100. Come Stillwater, (405) 377-7105, or Come Home to Oklahoma, Sapulpa, (918) 224- to Oklahoma, Sapulpa, (918) 224-2254. . (shown on page 3 7) (Shown on page 3 7) GOOD

ara Ann raises sheep, spins wool Karen Fore also shears her own herd knits lovely clothing for warmth and and fashions their coats into vests and SPORTS eauty. Her vests, sweaters, parkas and accessories for men and women. Prices . (405) Everyone knows that golf is a serious tart at $43. Barbara Ann Muret, game, and that more ulcers come from bogies than from bad business deals. However, the full line of products from Laid Back Enterprises will help your over-serious golfer get a better perspective on the "game." Prices start at $6. At gift stores throughout the state or the company's offices in OKC. (405) 948- 8555. (Not shown)

For the truly serious fitness seeker, Altus Athletic Manufacturing Company in Altus offers a wide variety of physical fitness products. Prices start at $7.95. Available at sporting goods stores throughout Oklahoma. (Not shown)

Those who long to be a Sooner or Cowboy and those who just want to show support for the state's two major college sports representatives will love getting a gift displaying the colors of their favorite team. Available at Pistol Pete's in Stillwater and The Big Red Shop in Oklahoma City. (Shown on page 39) * GOING PLACES eone a ZooFriend at the Give someone membership in the Center of the American Indian: a , and the whole family may visit Oklahoma Zoological Society, and you Jerome Tiger print, invitations to provlde free admission to the Oklahoma members-only openings and tire year. You also get free admission to City Zoo for a year, a subscription to announcements of activities in the Indian than 50 other select zoos and ZOOSOUNDS magazine, discounts on community, $25. (405) 427-5228. ums in the U.S., a subscription to Safari Classes, admission to 80 other zoos International Photography Hall of and free admission to special and admission to special events. Single Fame and Museum: a quarterly ents. Family Membership, $30; Junior Membership (up to 12 years),$5; newsletter and notices of workshops, ents & Grandkids Single Adult Membership,$EO; Family seminars and openings, $25. (405) 424- hip, $25. (918) 835-WILD. Membership, $35. (405) 427-2461. 4055. Ornniplex Science Museum & Now here's a deal! Thrill someone with Kirkpatrick Planetarium: Bi-monthly an annual membership in any one of the newsletter, EJEPomquarterly museums in Oklahoma City's magazine, 10 percent discount in museum Kirkpatrick Center, and you'll give the shop and on classes and workshops, use family free admission to everything the of birchday party room and invitations to - _ Kirkpatrick offers for a full year. special events, $40. (405) 424-5545. Air Space Museum: invitations to special events and a quarterly newsletter, You'll open the door to hours of gazing $25. (405) 424-1443. pleasure by giving an annual membership in The Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City. In addition to free begin, if he 1988-89 prica are dr%fmt admissions for the entire family, the and what ead season ofm. membership includes invitations to private Tulsa Ballet: Four performances functions, a 10 oercent discount at The during season that runs from late General Store and a subscription to Membership, $25; Family September through April. $12 to $120. Penimmon Hill, which is published Membership, $40; one-day admissions, $3. (918) 585-2573. quarterly. $30. (405) 478-2250. (918) 749-7941. Tulsa Philharmonic: Classic Season For those more into action than art, how Series, nine regular performances and one The Oklahoma Museum of Art in about a season's pass to either Bell's special concert. $55 to $175. Pop Series, Nichols Hills wants you to wrap them up Amusement Park in Tulsa or Frontier five concerts. $46.50-$90. (918) 584-2533. for Christmas. Give someone a City in Oklahoma City? A pass to Bell's Tulsa Opera: Three operas performed membership in the OMA, and you'll be provides free admission for one person during November* March and May. $24 giving not only free admission but also a from early April to the opening days of the $121.50- (918) 587-4811. series of quarterly publications as well as Tulsa State Fair around the end of Ballet Oklahoma, Oklahoma City: invitations to the museum's Yuletide September. $41.25. (918) 744-1991. A pass Four performances during October-A~ril. Celebration, preview openings with wine to Frontier City covers admission from $17-$80. Twen~Percent discount to and cheese and the fall series of April to October. $39.95. (405) 478-2414. seniors and students and reduced rates for Saturday evening concerdpicnics on the ' buying before May 30. (405) 843-9898. lawn. $30 individual, $40 family. (405) Forle following gmup of ultra-classy Oklahoma symphony Orchestra, 840-2759. gift ideas, you're going to have to find Oklahoma City: These smart folks have tncsting gift recipiena. While you can put together a Christmas gift package An individual membership at Tulsa's bily and give individual ticke~to for the last half of the 1987-88 season. You Philbrook Art Museum provides some remaining .men& in le1987-88 seasons can treat someone to four Classics lucky person with free admission for the for 1987 i3nktmas gfh,you'll haoe to concerts that will take place from February year, discounts on films and classes, a give an 1.0.U.for season's ticketr. We to May or four Pops concerts from subscription to the Philbmok Bu//etin and tell you what a season's ticketpmided in January to March. Or you can give a couple of one-day admission tickets to 1987-88 and give you current price someone a Gold Card, which entitles share with friends. A family ranga. When any ticket falh in lat range him or her to choose three Classics and two membership allows two free admissions dqm& on performance time and seat Pops concerts. Half-season ticket to anytime and four one-day admissions to location. You'll need to call to find out either Classics or Pops, $25 to $90; Gold share with friends. Individual whticket sala for he 1988-89 season Card, $50. (405) 232-4292.

Give any of hat and D)C mipimt will know you're proud of being from Oklahoma. If drey don't outn'dt show dze great shape we're in here, hae gifa suet it by hi&/i&ting some of our kt-known symboh.

Timberlake Studios in Noble creates a variety of jewelry and decorative items using beautiful specimens of Oklahoma's official state rock. Prices start at $5. Available at gift shops throughout the state. Timberlake Studios, Noble. (405) 329-5368.

Oklahoma Tropics shirts tell everyone that no matter how hot it gets in the Sooner state, it's cool to live here. Prices start at $10. Ann Labay Originals, Oklahoma City, (405) 947-0878.

Probably nothing says "Oklahoma" More hot-stu# OR/ahoma Tmpbt-shrirt, $10, and more clearly than the whisper of the wind shirt dms, $20; OSU r-shirt, $12.99; OU t-shirc, I$8, and (left) mse mck snrlpture, $35. sweeping through a field of golden ripe Nicole's wooden postcards, and they'll be delicious products. Prices start at $1.50. wheat. Wheat weaving captures that able to send out loud and clear the Watonga Cheese Store, Oklahoma City or message in a variety of attractive message that Oklahoma's O.K. Prices start Watonga. (405) 943-2707. (Shown on decorative items. Prices start at $2.50. at $3. 'wood-u-believe' creations, Lynn Carmichael, Enid. (405) 233- Norman. (405) 360-5557. 5040. (Shown on page 42) It makes "cents" to keep your hard- An Oklahoma cutting board is the Tulsa rules! That's what a solid brass perfect gift for cut-ups on your list, makes this and a full line of exciting brass at $18. Personally Yours, Perry. (405) desk accessories. Prices start at $45. 336-9432. Derrevere Designs, Tulsa. (918) 749-6032. (Shown on page 41) If you've always wondered if everything tastes better sitting on a Ritz, here's your When you put the Frank family and chance to find out. Slice off a hunk of Oklahoma together you get one of the the panhandle or the southeastern corner of state's best-known products, Frankoma Oklahoma and give it a try. This pottery. At gift shops throughout the state. Oklahoma-shaped cheese is delicious cheddar dipped in wax. Watonga Give someone a selection of Nicki Cheese produces it and many other Flowers from Oklahoma fields and the look together: buckles, collar tips, belt gardens, dried and mixed to form fragrant tips and keepers, etc. At clothing and potpourri or artfully arranged into gift stores across the nation. Prices start at decorative wreaths, are the stuff olfactory $18. Award Design Medals, Noble. dreams are made of. Good Scents also (405) 364-3030. (Shown on page 40) has wonderful roseballs to create the smell of spring in your home all year round. Critters from docile dogs to dangerous Prices start at $10. At gift shops throughout dinosaurs are leaping and lumbering out of Oklahoma. Good Scents, Tulsa. (918) the sculpting studios of United D 747-8030. Corporation in Noble. Prices for small modem interpretation in the attractive and items start at $3. At gift stores across the functional items made by Judith The southwestern look is a major state. United Design Corporation. Noble. Watson. Her business card boxes and fashion statement, and Award Design (405) 329-4984. paperweights would make lovely gifts Medals has accessories to help you put for the executives in your life. Prices start Perhaps the only things more beautiful at $12.50. Studio J Stained Glass, than Oklahoma trees are the intricately Oklahoma City. (405) 752-4673. wed items John Kellison makes from their wood. He custom-makes furniture as The Delsos' handcarved ducks made well as crafting lovely mirrors, belt from old golf club woods are unique buckles and boxes. Prices start at $18. At decorator touches for the golfer or the Artisan 9, Norman. John Kellison, Boise duck lover. Prices start at $25. Come City. (405) 544-2298. Home to Oklahoma, Sapulpa. (918) 224-2254. (Not shown)

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~prnd~tsmff: Go& J'tenfi wna& $34, rose manufactures greeting cards with a scented M/,$20; UnitenDRn'p'scamlh, $60. applique design on the front. $12 for AWAYS Wrap up the beauty of outdoor Oklahoma by givingsomeone a mini-vacation at one of the state's resom; they ofer enough variety in programs and facilities to please anyone. For specific information ca/l (800) 652-OKLA, (800) 522-8565 in Oklahoma, or (405) 521-2464.

Lake Murray Resort: Country Inn women. Set in the beauty of the Arbuckle Adventure with Heritage Arts and Crafts wilderness, Akia offers aerobic classes, Series. Heritage quilt making or china elegant, low-calorie meals, massages and painting, three days-two nights for $145 per many other healthful and relaxing \ experiences. Prices for the 1988 retreats may vary slightly, but they'll be about Adventure, three days-two nights for $95 the same as they were in 1987: Wednesday to Sunday evening, $250; Sunday Guest Ranch: Cowboy evening to Friday afternoon, $350. Akia, Camp, five days-four nights, $328 per Oklahoma City. (405) 842-6269. person; seven days-six nights, $497 per

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Okldoma MemoriRF, edited by Anne The Rainbow Study Bible ofm 16 yeam Hodges Morgan and Rennard Suickland. A of dedicated mead, $40.95. montage of firsthand accounts of Oklahoma history fmm pioneer days to the present. University of Oklahoma Press. $11.95, paper; $19.95, cloth. White Knwkb Log, by Don McAlpi The day-by-day diary kept during a Indian Sot%, by Gwen Fisher. Authentic Okkdioma: Foot-loose and Fanqlfre, by sailboat journey down our nation's Native American recipes which Angie Debo. A history book'that will inland waterways to the sea. A great illustrate the lifestyles and customs of the appeal to the general reader. One of our adventure story. Council Oak Books, North American Indian tribes. $10.00, most famous historians presents her Ltd. $14.95, cloth. paper. personal interpretation of her home state. Universityof Oklahoma Press. $9.95, a Siher Moto, by Patty Lou Floyd. OM Waf Cookbook, by Barbara paper. A charming novel about life in rural Blackbum. Fmntier recipes dating from Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl years. 1840-1910. $14.95, paper. Ta/hngto h+e Moon, by John Joseph Council Oak Books, Ltd. $14.95, cloth. (Evans Publications in Perkins also Mathews. A beautiful account of nature offers the three cookbooks above as a set and wildlife in the Osage country of 17re Spent h,by Inez Lacey Evans. for gift giving. All are comb bound for northeastern Oklahoma. University of An historical fiction set in Anadarko, O.T., easy kitchen use.) Oklahoma Press. $7.59, paper. as the Plains Indians gave way to the settlement of southwestern Oklahoma. Superfaha, by the Junior League of H&torico/ Ath of Okkahoma, third Evans Publications. $15.95, cloth. Oklahoma City. $14.95. edition, edited by John W. Morris, Charles R. Goins and Edwin C. McReynolds. Come in &ti House, by Helen Dutton Stir Ups, by The Junior Welfare League Eighty-three large, easy-to-understand Russell. Story of the Hoyle family, of Enid. $12.95. maps of the state with information homesteaders in northwestern about geography, history, commerce, Oklahoma. Evans Publications. $14.95, Pathod Pantry, compiled by the industry, political evolution and cultural cloth. Central Oklahoma Quilters Guild. A development. University of Oklahoma variety of recipes. $7, with $1 postage Press. $14.95, paper; $24.95, cloth. i7ae Rainbow S+ Bibh. El Reno and handling. Order from Central resident Billy Hughey has devoted Oklahoma Quilters Guild, P.O. Box Back to dze Damn Soil, by Mary Gubser. countless hours during the last 16 years 23710, Oklahoma City, 73123. A humomus account of the prairie of his life to producing a study Bible that homefront in the early 1940s. Council assigns 12 subject headings a different Sem Like I Done it nk-a-WQ, by Cleo Oak Books, Ltd. $14.95, cloth. color and color-codes each verse of the Stiles Bryan. $7.95, postage inclded. For Bible to its most logical heading. information, write Cleo Stiles Bryan, Prairie City, by Angie Debo. A $40.95. Box 749, Tahlequah, 74464. fascinating look at the struggles of American farmers and the decline of A Smidgen of Honey, by Maxine Kdryn Jmon White and $faS'Ijng family farming. Council Oak Books, Ltd. Wilhelm. Stories and recipes of the Great anbod Norman-based fmhnce $16.95, cloth. Depression days. $10.00, paper. pmf~~sionak. I Holiday Gift I Subscri~tion!

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21-Jan. 10 "Abstractions in the American Quilt," hlabee- Gerrer Museum, Shawnee, (405) 273-9999 MUSEUMS 8 GALLERIES 24-Dec. 31 Afro-American Art, OK Museum of Art, OKC, b (405) 840-2759 22-Dec. 16 Paintings by Ellen Murray, Gardiner Galle~, NOVEMBER OSU, Stillwater, (405) 624-6016 I-Dec. 13 Photographs by Paul Strand, "Mexican Portfolio," DECEMBER OU Museum of Art, Norman, (405) 325-3272 1-31 "Craftsmen as Artists," The Galleria of Tribal 1-29 ~Vationa/ Geo~aphicAutochromes, Photography Arts, Norman, (405) 329-1225 Hall of Fame, OKC, (405) 424-4055 1-Jan. 30 "Cynthia Davis: Altered Images," Photography 1-29 Autochromes from the Albert Kahn Collection, Hall of Fame, OKC, (405) 424-4055 Photography Hall of Fame, OKC, (405) 424-4055 2-Jan. 22 Japanese Quilts, Kirkpatrick Center. OKC, (405) 1-29 Spanish Mapping of the American Southwest, 427-5461 Museum of the Great Plains, Lawton, (405) 353- 2-27 "Ansel Adams: Images of America 1927-1960," 5675 Photography Hall of Fame, OKC, (405) 424-4055 1-30 Shan Goshorn, "The Cycles of Life," Southern 4-8 "Watercolor Oklahoma." Gardiner Gallery , OSU. Plains Indian Museum, Anadarko, (405) 247-6221 Stillwater, (405) 624-6016 9-Dec. 4 Eskimo Carvings & Prints, Kirkparrick Center, 5-Jan. 3 "Season of Light." Kirkparrick Center, OKC, OKC, (405) 427-5461 (405) 427-5461 11-Dec. 16 Paintings by Bruno Bianchin, Kirkpatrick Center, 6 Dana Gilpin & Eileen Bryce exhibit. OK Art OKC, (405) 427-5461 Center, OKC, (405) 232-1 787

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7 Paintings by Robert Lamell, OCU, OKC (405) 7-8 Arts & Craft Show, Stipe Center, McAlester, (918) 521-5226 423-7429 10-Jan. 31 Photographs by Scott Haberer, "Peopleview," 13-14 Carter County Arts & Craft Festival, Hardy Mabee-Gerrer Museum, Shawnee, (405) 273-9999 Murphy Coliseum, Ardmore, (405) 226-1715 12-Jan. 31 Paintings by Barbara Frets, "Beach 13-14 Ponrotoc County Crafts Show, Ada, (405) 332-4407 Enchantments," Mabee-Gerrer Museum, 13-15 Illinois River Arts & Crafts Festival, NSU, Shawnee, (405) 273-9999 Tahlequah, (918) 456-551 1 13-15 Tri-State Arts & Crafts Show, Civic Center, Miami, (918) 542-2729 14 Fest-0-Fall, Fair Building, Woodward, (405) 256- DRAMA 741 1 14-15 Crescent Arts & Crafts Show, Community Center, Crescent, (405) 969-2542 14-15 Arts & Crafts Fall Show, Women's Fair Building, NOVEMBER Perry, (405) 336-5214 6-7, 12-14, 19-21 "Orphans," The Phoenix, Tulsa, (918) 749-6488 14-15 Santa's Workshop. Clinton, (405) 323-2200 12-15 "Hound of the Baskervilles," CAJC, Poteau, (918) 20-22 Crafts Harvest, Great Plains Coliseum, Lawton, 647-8660 (405) 536-6412 12-15, 19-22 "Bedroom Farce," Cameron Univ., Lawton, (405) 21-22 Osage Hills Arts & Crafts Show, Sand Springs 581-2428 Plaza, (918) 245-2248 19-21 "Of Mice and hlen," Goddard Center, Ardmore, 26 Thanksgiving Festival, Lake hlurrav Resort, (405) 223-1327 Ardmore, (405) 223-6600 25-29 "Arsenic & Old Lace," Civic Center, OKC, (405) 27-28 Arts & Crafts Show, Civic Center, Muskogee, 525-3488 (918) 687 0347 27-29, Dec. 4-5 "The Odd Couple," Civic Center, Ponca City, 27-29 Santa's Workshop, Stephens County Fairgrounds, (405) 767-8888 Duncan, (405) 255-3525 27-29, Dec. 4-6 "Amahl and the Night Visitors," Judd Theatre, 27-28 Stephens County Arts & Craft Show, Fairgrounds, OCC, OKC (405) 478-4452 Duncan, (405) 255-3644 DECEMBER 28-29, Dec. 5-6 Christmas Fair, Firehouse Art Center, Norman, 3-20 "Sugar," Jewel Box Theatre, OKC, (405) 521-1786 (405) 329-4523 3-6 "The Serpent," OCU, OKC (405) 521-5124 29-30 Festival of the Trees, Lyric Theater, Marriott 4-13 "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever," Theater Hotel, OKC, (405) 528-3636 Tulsa, (918) 749-6666 DECEMBER 4-6, 11-12 "My Three Angels," Southwest Playhouse, 5 Holiday Crafts Bazaar, Farm & Home Building, Clinton, (405) 323-4448 Purcell, (405) 527-5506 5-7 "6 Rooms Riv Vu," Shortgrass Theater, Hobart, 5-6 RPM Arts & Craft Show, Expo Square, Tulsa, (405) 726-5708 (918) 683-0509 8, 11 "A Gift from Pinocchio," OCU, OKC (405) 521- 4-6 Craft Show, Community Center, MWC, (405) 632- 5124 4375 5-6 Crafts Fair, Elks Lodge, Pawhuska, (918) 683-0509 11 Police Christmas Show, Civic Center, Muskogee, (918) 683-0509 * =4lRS S FESTIVALS I

NOVEMBER 4-7 Nutcracker Christmas Shop, Hamelden, Tulsa, (918) 627-5020 6-7 Watonga Cheese and Arts Festival, City Hall, Watonga, (405) 623-5218 NOVEMBER 6-7 Dewey Pilot Club's Arts & Craft Show, American 6-8 OSU Concert Chorale, Seretean Center, Legion, Bartlesville, (918) 336-0095 Stillwater, (405) 624-6133 6-7 Duncan Arts & Crafts Show, Fairgrounds, 6-8, 13-14 "Gianni Schicchi," "The Old Maid and the Duncan, (405) 255-3644 Thief," OU School of Music, Norman, 325-2081 6-8 Cheese and Sausage Festival, Fairgrounds, 8, 22 OK Symphony Ovation Series, Putnam City HS, Stillwater, (405) 377-7797 OKC, (405) 236-8742 6-8 Fall Arts and Crafts Festival, Robbers Cave State 9 Canterbury Choral Society, Civic Center, OKC Park, Wilburton, (918) 465-2565 (405) 842-7464 6-8 Tulsa Arts and Crafts Fall Festival, Expo Square, 13-14 OK Symphony Pops Concert with Doc Severinsen, Tulsa, (918) 747-4104 Civic Center, OKC, (405) 236-8742 7 Pot Pourri Fair, Fairgrounds, Beaver, (405) 625- 14-15 Classical Ballet, Chapman Music Hall, Tulsa, 3464 (918) 585-2575 7-8 "A Country Affair," Community Center, MWC, 17 OK Symphony Masterworks Series, Civic Center, (405) 769-5443 OKC, (405) 236-8742

46 Oklahoma TODAY 17 Alexander Toradze, Pianist, Civic Center, OKC, 30-Dec. 5 Nat'l Reining Futurity Show, Fairgrounds, (405) 236-8742 OKC, (405) 278-8900 17 Jazz Concert, Seretean Center, Stillwater, (405) DECEMBER 624-6133 8-12 World Championship Barrel Racing, Fairgrounds, 19 "Nutcracker," Tulsa Ballet, CAJC, Poteau, (918) OKC, (405) 278-8900 647-8660 17- 19 Best of the West Rodeo, Lazy E Arena, Guthrie, 19 "All That Jazz," Chapman Music Hall, Tulsa, (405) 282-3004 (918) 584-2533 26-Tan. 1 Holiday Circuit Horse Show. Expo Square, Tulsa, 19 "Nutcracker," CAJC, Poteau, (918) 647-8660 (918) 653-0509 20 OSU Wind Ensemble, Seretean Center, Stillwater, (405) 624-6133 20-24, Dec. 2-6 "Nutcracker," OU Fine Arts Center, Norman, (405) 325-402 1 21 Lawton Philharmonic, McMahon Auditorium, Lawton, (405) 248-2001 NOVEMBER 22 The Ridge String Quartet, Williams Theater, 1-30 Northwest Images Photography Contest, Plains Tulsa, (918) 742-4087 Indians & Pioneers Museum. Woodward, (405) 24 OSU Symphony Orchestra, Seretean Center, 256-6136 Stillwater, (405) 624-6133 1-30 "Down on Second Street," photo exhibit, CSU, DECEMBER Edmond, (405) 341-2980 1 OK Symphony Masterworks Series, Civic Center, 4-8 Will Rogers Days, downtown Claremore, (918) OKC, (405) 235-1113 341-2818 4 Ballet, McMahon Auditorium, Lawton, (405) 843- 5-7 Dewey Pilot Club's Antique Show, Community 9898 Center, Bartlesville, (918) 336-0095 5 "The Peppermint Pops," McMahon Auditorium, 8 Hiram Douglas Memorial Regatta, Lake Lawton, (405) 248-2001 Thunderbird, Norman, (405) 364-1852 6 Christmas Gala Concert, Seretean Center, 11 Veterans Day Parade, downtown Tahlequah, (918) Stillwater (405) 624-6133 683-0509 6 Canterbury Choral Society, Civic Center, OKC, 11 Veterans Day Parade, downtown Tulsa, (918) 683- (405) 842-7464 0509 10 "Messiah," Civc Center, OKC, (405) 584-2533 11 Fairview Fly-In, Fairview Airport, Fairview, (405) I1 OK Symphony PopsConcert with Patti Page, Civic 227-3788 Center, OKC, (405) 236-8742 21-22 Tulsa Toy & Doll Show, Expo Square, Tulsa, 11 Oklahoma Brass Ensemble, Civic Center, Ponca (918) 683-0509 City, (405) 767-8888 22-23 Miss Oklahoma USA Pageant, Civic Center, (405) 12 "Nutcracker," Community Center, Bartlesville, 843-5656 (918) 336-4746 26 "Grand National," American Bicycle Ass'n, 12-13 Prairie Dance Theater, CSU, Edmond, (405) 478- Myriad, OKC, (405) 278-8900 4132 27-Dec. 31 Territorial Christmas Celebration, downtown 13 Messiah Sing-Along, Leadership Square, OKC, Guthrie, (405) 282-1947 (405) 842-7464 DECEMBER 16-20 "Nutcracker," Civic Center, OKC, (405)843-9898 1-31 Art Show, Plains Indians & Pioneer hluseum, 18-22 "Nutcracker," Chapman Hall, Tulsa, (918) 585- Woodward, (405) 256-6136 2575 1-Jan. 31 "Fascination with Space: The 13th & 20th Centuries," CSU, Edmond, (405) 341-2980 2-5 Grand Nat'l Quail Hunt. Garfield &u~N,Enid, (405) 233-4021 RODEOS & 3-5 Candlelight Home Tour & Parade, Wagoner, (918) 683-0509 m 4-6 Antique Christmas Show, Expo Square, Tulsa (918) 683-0509 NOVEMBER 5 Extension Homemakers Quilt Show, Wagoner, 2-8 World Championship Appaloosa Horse Show, (918) 683-0509 Fairgrounds, OKC, (405) 278-8900 12 Christmas Show Parade of Lights, downtown 5-7 PRCA Finals Rodeo, Lazy E Arena, Guthrie, (405) Tulsa, (918) 683-0509 282-3004 15 Christmas Tree Lighting, Model Park, Tulsa, 12-14 NWOSU Rodeo, Fairgrounds, Alva, (405) 327- (918) 683-0509 1647 19 Santa at the Zoo, OKC Zoo, (405) 424-3344 14 Oklahoma HunterIJumper Show, Lazy E Arena, 31 Billy Parker's New Year's Eve Dance, Expo Guthrie, (405) 282-3004 Square, Tulsa (918) 683-0509 14-21 World Championship Quarter Horse Show, Fairgrounds, OKC, (405) 278-8900 Although the information in this calendar is current, dates and details 27-28 Nat'l Finals Steer Roping, Lazy E Arena, Guthrie, can change without notice. Please check in advance before attending (405) 282-3004 any event.

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