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FEATURES Are You an Oklahoman? 28 Think you're a know-it-all when it comes to your home state? Test your understanding of Oklahoma history, happenings, and culture with our Fun-filledquiz. It'll have you sharpening your pencil, grabbing your calculator, and racking your brain. You may discover you're an expert-or that you have a little brushing up to do.

7 Great Road Trips 34 With the right attitude-and a tank of gas-any drive can be a road trip. For inspiration, join us for a journey along the Talimena Scenic Byway or a western trek from Woodward to Kenton-and beyond. Any outing of your choosing will be a memorable one when you follow the paths suggested by our seven contributing adventurers.

Full Metal Garden 44 Sometimes we learn the most without even tr ing. One writer recalls a youth spent on his grandfatT er's farm and the profound realization it inspired. BY DAMON GARDENHIRE

The Story of Wind 46 In Oklahoma, it's a force to be reckoned with, a known quantity, a recurring part of life. We've come to accept that the wheat will be waving, our hair will be blowing, and wind is here to stay. Find out its surprising cultural, geographic, and historic implications. By CHAD LOVE

DEPARTMENTS Contributors Editor's Letter Mopping Our Territory Feedback Jeanne Hoffman Smith, John Reid Marketplace Be Jeweled: Queen Bead Calendar The Range Geocaching, Cane Rods Getaway Guide Oklahoma Wolking Tours Events Guide The End I Now Walk in Beauty

On the cover: A spring thunderstorm in Woodward County, by Chad Love. Insets: Gene Autry, Okia- homa, sign and Round Barn in Arcadia, by Fred W. Marvel. This page: The Mid-ContinentBuilding's stained glass ceiling, in Tulsa, by R.E. Lindsey.

CONTENTS 1 CONTRIBUTORS fticial Magazine of the :ate of Oklahoma ~odaj Since 1756 Where would Okkzboma Eahybe BRAD HENRY. Governor without its editorial assistants?No doubt, readers would notice a ~lethora of errors, and buckets of press releases would go unread for weeks. From left, Ryan MarieMendenball,Heather Harkins, andBmkeDemetz make up JOAN HENDERSON the support staff for the magazine's edi- Publisher tors, worlung on factcheddng, editorial LOUISA McCUNE research, and contributorservice. The Editor in Chief three young women, all fdl-time college STEVEN WALKER, WALKER CREATIVE, INC students, also write and photograph for Art Director the magazine. Enid native Mendenhall STEFFIE CORCORAN, Senior Editor ANDREA LOPEZ, Associate Ediror attends OU, Oklahoma City resident AUDl TOMEK, Designer BROOKE DEMETZ, HEATHER HARKINS, Harkins attends UCO, and Fort Worth and RYAN MARIE MENDENHALL, Editorialhistanrr native Demetz attends OU. CHARLY ARNOLD, Editorial Intern Contributing Edtron RLRKtMKL) BILGFR, SHEIlAll BKIGH'l. RE. Lindsey,whose images regular- ,II)AW Hl'CK1 FY COHEN. ELI Y CROW. BRUCE UGU... ly appear throughout Okhboma hky, ROBERTHENRY,~OHNJERNIW,YOUSEF KHANFAR, TOM LUKER MAURA McDERMOn, J.D. MERRYWEATHER, has been taking photographs since age MICHAEL WALLIS, and MARY LOGAN WOLF six, when his hther taught him to de- MIKE HARVEY, Circulation and Marketin Director velop and print photos in their kitchen COLLEEN MCINTYRE, ~roductiondnager KIM RYAN, Advertising Account EveMtiue darkroom. His childhood hobby now SAND1 WELCH, Advertising GraphicArtin a successful career, Lindsey frequently LISA BRECKENRIDGE, Accountant KATHY FUGATE, GceManager travels the state capturing Oklahoma's TAMMY CONAUGHTY, Curtomer Service Specialist beauty on film,and he says he enjoys J.W. MCBEE, Marketing Intern introducing people to the state through Tourism and Recreation his images. "I love the reaction of JANE JAYROE, Executive Director people when they say, 'I didn't know Tourism and Recreation Commission Oklahoma looked like this."' Lindsey LT GOV. MARY FALLIN, Chair ROBYN BATSON, STAN CLARK, JOE HARWOOD, photographed the Capitol Dome for BOYD LEE, JOE MARTIN, JANIS RICKS, HAL SMITH, the NovemberIDecember 2002 issue, andSIDNEY SMITH which includes his &st Oklahoma To contact Oklahoma To+ staE by em& adve~isin~oklahomaroday~)m Toahy cover. He lives in Sapulpa with [email protected] his wife, Jennifer. edirorial@oklahomatodayYcom Okkzboma T+ awards indude: 2002 IRMA Gold for Best Profile; 2002 IRMA Bronze Awards for Bar Department, - Best Special Focus, and Best Overall Art Direcrion; Since 1991, reporter Galen Culver Sierra Club 2001 ConservationJournalii Award; Three Dallas Press Club 2001 First Prize Honors; has aired more than a thousand "Is IRMA Magazine of the Year, 1991,1993,1994,1996; This a Great State or What?" seg- 1999 Folio Editorial Excellence Award; 1998 Wilbur Award ments on WOR-TV in 0klah;ma City. Culver, an Oregon native, recently took a rare day off to cover the stretch of State Highway 10 he profiles in "Seven Great Road Trips" (page 34). "Every new assignment calls to mind new details and fresh I stories," he says. "This amazing drive gave me feature ideas that should rn keep me busy for weeks to come." Culver and his wife, WOR reporter Tara Blume, live with their two rn daughters in Oklahoma City.

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Ed i tor's Letter

MAPPING OUR TERRITORY

NAMED MY CATS GUTHRIE AND STILL WATERAFTERTHETOWNS, YES, BUT Ialso for Woody Guthrie, because still waters run deep, and because Still Water has that beautiful American Indian ring to it. My dog Willie's namesake is a certain country and western singer with whom he has a slight- resemblance. Cookie, nee Cook, was named for a relative. I couldn't believe my eyes when, last month, I discovered a town in northwest Okla- homa called McWillie, not far from the Homesteaders Original Sod House Museum. I have two cats who would make the Frontier Country Marketinghsociation proud, and a dog who would be welcome in McWillie. I just about fell out of my chair when, last week, I discovered Cookietown, quietly perched in the 1-7 section of the map, roughly twenty-seven miles south of lawton. At that moment, I realized how infinitely entertaining and endlessly 111of GREAT GLOSSY DRIVE -7 possibility the Oklahoma state map can be for those of us who consider ourseIves ~ ~can inspirei grievous ~ outrage.i ~ orit ~ Okiephiles. My pets, it seems, were destined to live in Oklahoma. - can define our escape and be the measure For many, the Oklahoma Ojicial State Map is a mere trifle or a given, an over- of our independence.Whata full rank of gas looked tool, a casual freebie at theTourist Information Center. Liepublic art, might inspire is limitless.A road trip, whether it's an underappreciated but terrifically useful and visually appealing statement. twelve hours away or twenty minutes north, At Oklahoma My,we use state maps weekly, if not daily, and in abundance. just might be the slice of freedom for which We draw on them with Sharpies, highlighters, and our favorite pens. We study we're all continuously pining. The Glass , them, count populations, pinpoint areas of coverage, factcheck editorial content, Mountains rank high among my top Okla- and score brownie points when we give extras to our friends. Our new favorite homa drives.onU.S. ~ i 412, just~ pas h tool on~ the map ~is the scenic~ route key, indicated by aseries ofdots and im- mensely helpful as we plotted the "Seven Great RoadTrips" for this issue. Created by the Oklahoma Department offransportation (ODOT), in part- nership with the OklahomaTourism and Recreation Department, the award- winning map is widely considered one of the most attractive of all state maps nationwide. From the print quality and paper stock to the sophisticated design and content, the piece is intended to be as much a marketing too1 as an indis- pensable aid for the traveler (althoughreconceived and redesigned biennially, the map is printed with updates every six months). One-fifth of the 1.6million printed are sent out of-state. Like baseball cards, official stare maps are often considered cob By March 1, the 2003-2004 Oklahoma OBcial State Map should be le~cfibles.Oklahoma's first official in wide circulation. Copies can be picked up at one of twelveTourist map was produced in 1932. Information Centers and more than one hundred ODOT satellite offices around the state. The maps are also mailed from the state's tourism and transportation depurtmz :nts UP' I requcst. I hate to Sl1ggest that we be over- indulgenl:, but when YO" see the lew m ap, grab a few extra. I asked mapmaker Jay Adams of (3D(3T if tt deparment frc)wn5;uponI people taking a Ihandful of 'maps, and he !;aid not .t all- -they havl e mc)re tha menouf$- For 2003, ~cwillieand Cookietown are at the top of my destination list. Get your state map and plot your next road trip. You'll be surprised at = what you might find.

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Cafe Society It's a Bird, It's a Plane... Just a short note to say thank you for the Thank you very much for including the publication of The Oklahoma Tohy Guide Tulsa Air and Space Museum in your spe- to Cafes &Diners. Twenty-two years ago, cial supplement, The Okkzhoma ToAy Guide five couples from our church started a din- to Cafes &Diners. At TASM, we strive to ner club, and we are still together.- At our make the community aware of Oklahoma's The publication shows the state's unex- last get-together, we were discussing differ- rich aviation and aerospace history, and we pected physical beauty and the boundless ent things to do for 2003. appreciate your support and help in getting vitality of our people. Our response has I mentioned that the Guide to Cafes & the word out about our museum. been terrific. Diners would be an excellent source for Next time you are in Tulsa, please stop John Reid, Deputy Director new ideas and places to see. In short, we by and see us. Oklahoma Department of Commerce are planning to use the guide to find cafes Katheryn Pennington, Executive Director OKLAHOMA CITY and diners that we may not be aware of Tulsa Air and Space Museum and at the same time see a part of Okla- TULSA Hey, That's My Town! 1 homa history. The JanuaryIFebruary 2003 issue of 1 All we need now is a bed and breakfast, OK1 Is Good for Business Oklahoma Today was my first. When I hotel/motel guide to complement the In the competitive world of corporate turned to page 9, I was shocked to see the Guide to Cafes and Diners. business location, it is important that Mike Coffey Oklahoma not only promote its business OWahon~~Tadoywelcomesbvi~~~~sof BETHANY advantages but lifestyle benefits as well. readers. lefters are subiect to editing You're thinking like a magazine editor, We are proud to use Oklahoma Today as an and must include name, addra, ~lnda Mike. The Oklahoma Today Guide for integral part of our ongoing national mar- daytime phone nmbar. Send lmsto: Okla- 2004 will cover Oklahoma hotels, bed and keting effort. Thanks to assistance from the homa Today,Ahx Ehr, 15 brhRabin- breakfasts, and inns in much the same fah- Oklahoma Business Roundtable, we send son, Suite 1OQ,Oklahoma Ciiy, OK 73102, or faxtom)522&&3 irMdreesalemonic ion. Readers who have a favorite overnight Oklahoma Tohy to more than 350 targeted mail to [email protected]. retreat shouldsend us their suggestions now. CEOs and site location consultants. +..'+'w'I

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Campbell rules with a new line of handmade jewelry, Queen Bead. are available from Leigh Ann Campbell (4051720-6069) or at her son Rusty Nix's store, Blue Seven, opening March 1in Oklahoma City. 5028 North May Avenue in V Nouveau Pet Rock he Teacher Is InV Mafir Wage (4051604- 5199).Necklace with seed beads, turquoise, and a ster- art teacher. Combine twenty years lingsilver crucifix, $36;coral teaching with a creative background, an Leigh Ann Campbell understands what :he young and hip consider cool. This wondered irnple-but-elegant necklace of copper what they would look like decorated with shaped wire, beads, and crystal. The result: deans. Either spells fashion. $7 adorned stones that double as unexpected business card displays

Viv6 la Difference!) "Itry to get things that don't nor- 4 mally fit together to look good as one unit of jewelry," says Camp- bell of her funky fashion jewelry. Here, she has shaped contrasting beads-including unique vintage stones, trade beads, and Polish black crystal-in a rainbow of colors into two necklaces ($51 and $32) and a bracelet ($16).

OKLAHOMATODAY MARCH/APRIL 2003 lo 1 The Long and Short of It ) These three pendants showcase Campbell's originality. Unusual materials like cinnabar, cawed coral, and

Triple Crossed ) silk thread make for a Campbell's husband, lovely addition to any neck. Bruce, an oil-field con- ~ouble-strandcoral iose sultant, inspired these rustic pendant with antique Indian crosses. Her creative partner, seed beads, $40. Black onyx and he suggested she use antique cinnabar necklaces, $32 each. Y barbed wire as a medium. I '

Bracelet Yourself ) Annual summer treks to Santa Fe, New Mexico, keep Campbell cre- atively recharged Once stateside, she brings a little of the high desert to Oklahoma with these eclectic sterling silver, leather,

featuring decorative beads, onyx, lapis, and of course, turquoise. Says Campbell, "That classic Santa Fe style is never going to go away." Brace-

To Any Lengths V "Slender and graceful" could as easily describe the ideal neck for these beaded strands as the necklaces themselves. Campbell says of the silk thread baubles, "Around the neck, they show off nicely against clothes." Coral necklace, $26; necklace with green and black glass beads, $27; and onyx and crystal necklace, $39.

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2 b 6 For sale, wild art in Though New Or- light at NWOSU's Awww. Youngsters You're right in the several mediums. leans is 723 miles Herod Hall Audib will show farm middle of the three Don't miss the last away, celebrate rium in Alva, lend animals today, the day Wrangler Timed day of the Nature- the last feast an ear to Dervish, a second day of the Event Championship Works Wildlife Art before hnt with a Celtic ensemble from Northwest District Ju- of the World at the Show & Sale at party. Get into the Ireland and the final nior livestock Show lazy E Arena in the Tulsa Marriott I spirit with beads and installment of the at Enid's Chisholm Guthrie. Rumor has Southern Hills. a mask from Ehrle's university's annual Trail Expo Center. it world champion 11 a.m.-5 p.m. 1 Party and Carnival concert series. cowboy Trevor Bra- Tickets, $5. ~up~liesin Tulsa. E zile will attend. 8 p.m., $5$10. r I' 9 Rod and reel not Today, visit the Consider quilts on During National Nu- Head to the State Zoom zoom zoom necessary: Fishing Cherokee Heritage art form? The Santa trition Month, potron- Fairgrounds in Okla- your way to the at the Spring Trout Center in Tahlequah, Fe Depot Quilt Show ire Akin's Natural homa City for high Tulsa International Derby at MarVal where the Native at Shawnee's Santa Foods Market in school hoops action Auto Show at the Family Camping lands: Indians in Fe Depot Museum Tulsa and Oklahoma during the first day Tulsa Expo Center Resort in Gore was Georgia exhibit is should have you in City. Need to pick of the state cham- for the largest show Friday and Saturday. on loan from the stitches. Quilts ham up soybeans after pionship basketball of its kind in the This morning, all par- Atlanta History Cen- around the state work? No worries: tournament. Through Southwest. Through ticiponts snag prizes. ter. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. will be displayed All locations remain Saturday. Sunday. 930 a.m. Through April 18. through March 30. oy~nrintil 9 - -

17 20 21 22 The activities are Luck of he Irish to Head east to Empire Tomorrow is the first Support young talent Today, check out buzzing at the Spring ye1 Celebrate St. of the Sultans: Ot- day of spring. Drink with a visit to the second-round ac- Break Programs at Patrick's Day at a toman Art from the in the ioys by doing Five Civilized Tribes tion in the NCM Western Hills Guest shamrock-influenced Khalili Collection at something outdoors, Museum in Musk- basketball regionals Ranch in Wagoner. festivity around the the Oklahoma City perhaps clearing ogee. All month, at Oklahoma City's With hayrides, bwt state. Unless you like Museum of Art. See a flower bed for budding artists from Ford Center. The tours, fishing, pinches from strang- more than 200 items spring plantings. seventh to twelfth tall boys battle it archery, and crafts, ers, wear green. through April 27. grade will display out, and the winner the busiest kids will (Undies don't count.] their works. advances to the be occupied. coveted Sweet 16.

25 1 26 28 b Catch the Terra Yesterday was the If hunger calls, make Things will heat Firma: Expansive fifteenth-nd crys- your way to Taste of up fast tonight as Perspectives exhibit tal-anniversary for Yukon, with yummies Tennessee Williams' in the Antun Gallery the Crystal Bridge from vendors and classic, Cat on a Hor at the MabeeGerrer in Oklahoma City, area eateries. Tin Roof, debuts at Museum in Shaw- with free admission, 5:3(17:30 p.m. at 8 p.m. at the Lawton IF nee, featuring the tours, and refresh- the Dale Robertson Community Theatre. work of three artists. ments. Don't forget Center. $10. Tickets, $84 14. Through April 27. a stroll within the grand oval. -am 5KSS.inr ADVERTISEMENT

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6 - 8 10 11 Go the distance at Everyihing ISay April showers Romantic entangle- Economic expert John, Paul, Ringo, Shop at the Spring the Redbud Classic. Here Is Strajght and bring...the Azalea ments overlap on Frank Cappiellowill and George will be Garden Martat Events began yester- True, the traveling Festival1View aza- one idyllic give his "View from rockin' the NSU Cen- Tulsa's Garden day with bike tours exhibit of Chief leas, tulips, phlox, afternoon in Neil Wall Street" as part ter for the Performing Center, where area and a 100-miletimed White Bull's autobie and dogwoods Simon's Proposals. of the Oklahoma City Arts in Tahlequah. retailers put forward bike event. Today's graphical drawings, at Honor Heights April 45 and 9-13 Town Hall lecture Relive Liverpool at their bestquality 10K run starts at the has a three-week stint Park in Muskogee. at Broken Arrow series. 10:30 a.m. Revolution: A Beatles plants and crafts for Waterford Complex at the Museum of Through April 30. Community Play- at St. Luke's United Tribute. 7:30 p.m. the savvy gardener. in Oklahoma City. the Cherokee Strip house. 2 p.m. MethodistChurch. Tickets, $20. Yesterday and today. v in Enid.

15 16 19 Throw horseshoes MerlinLittle Start ~lanninaa Academy Award Visit the Oklahoma winner Burt City MemorialMu- Bacharach will seum today in honor be crooning tunes of the eighth anniver- tonight at the Civic sary of the Alfred Center Music Hall P. Murrah Federal in Oklahoma Cib. Building bombing. Through April 19. Tickets, $2&$60.

25 Pack a basketful of April is the month goodies and enjoy of festivals in a spring picnic at Oklahoma.The your local park. It's Herb & Plant Festival National Park Week. inJenks, Lide Axe Try Red Rock Can- Spring Fling, and yon State Park near Crystal Festivalin Hintonor Chomplin Cherokee are among Park in Enid. today's choices.

A picturespeaks a Fibworks by mod- Visit an Oklahoma I thousand words. ern artists-including day spq (try Le Flash1The Associ- Marc Chagall and Visage In Norman) atedPress Covers he Salvador Dali-will and treat yourself Worldruns March 21 be exhibited in Mod- to a full body through April 27 at ern Masters: From massage for Stress the Price Tower Ark Corot to Kandinsky Awareness Month. Center in Bartlesville. at the Philbrook Mu- seum of Art in Tulsa. Through June.

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On Ma~hI, the Oklahoma Aquarium is taking plungewith an all-day grand opening ceremony.

Wmls, and music, the pa first gett to the parking lot." Inside, tours--running continuausly on openi day- will cover the much-heralded aquarium's m hundred exhibii. Hands-on learning labs alYiikYZ touch starfish, crabs, and a leopardshark. Money*

ng your fea)wet? The Karl a nalFishingTackle Museum THERANGE PhotographicJourney THREE LENSMEN CAPTURE OKLAHOMA'S SPLENDOR Those who never have visited may consider Oklahoma a barren, flat Iand in the middle offlyover country, betterknown for cowboys and Indiansthan breathtaking vistas andrich grasslands.Visitors and residents know the truth. The natural beauty of Oklahomarivals that of any state, and the diversity of our landcreates a topographical quilt that weaves sloping hills andtall rrees with vast prairies and awe-inspiring mesas. Threeveteran Oklahoma photographershave capnuedthese varied terrains in a collection called Okkzboma Simpb Beautzz(Earcounuy Press, 2002, $29.95). The Oklahomanphoto editor Jim Argo joins Okkhmu Todhywntributing editor John Elk111 andsapulpa native RE.Lindseyin this hardbound coffe-table wllaboration. From the deep red-orange and magenta sunsets ofthe west to the lush green forests of the northeast, Okkzboma Simply Beaukwis a book that brings our state to life in brilliant, bountifid colors. -Andrea Lopa

THE REEL THING Celluloid Database on Reel Classics RECOMMEND Pining for screen gems gone by? An Oklahoma-produced website, reelclassics.com, will get you back into the world of @ The lasagna rolls at Victoria's timeless movies. The website was started in 1999 by Elirabefh in Norman Anthony, who grew up watching the classic movies her father lugged home. As a Princeton freshman sans television or VCR, Q Ding Bats, the new garden- Anthony turned to the library in pursuit of all things classic. themed gift boutique at the Tulsa "For me," she "a classic is a method of filmmaking Garden Center says, that leaves something to the audience's imagination." Q Sailing on Lake Tenkiller The website is more straightforward-and popular. Q A beginnet's knitting class at Reelclassics has racked up million hits and grown to S.W.A.K. Knits in Guthrie 15 more than 1,800 pages of information. Visitors can access a variety of information, from an audio/video gallery and celebrity addresses to the most popular section, The Stars, featuring hundreds of celebrities. -Heather Harkins

MATERIAL MATTERS Needles, looms, and spindles are flying- - as fiber artists Galleries throughout the state will be displaying their across the state prepare for the twenty-fifth annual Fiber- own fiber exhibits in tandem with Fiberworks2003, in- works2003 exhibition. Sponsored by the Handweavers cluding a wearable art exhibit at the Firehouse Art Center League of Oklahoma, the Oklahoma Arts Council, and in Norman, an African textile collection at the Pickard the Kirkpatrick Galleries, this annual juried event show- Gallery in Oklahoma City, and a Sue Moss Sullivan exhibi- cases the best in fiber art created by Oklahoma artists. tion at Holland Hall in Tulsa. -Kathryn Zynda Sue Moss Sullivan, this year's chair, expects 150entries, ofwhich sixty to seventy will be chosen for display.-. "It's TheFiberworks avery competitive show," she says, "and a tribute to the 2003schihibit iApd extraordinary talent ofour state's artists." I7thmghMay I8in The exhibit features an eclectic blend of styles ranging the West Gahyofhe &om the traditional to the avant-garde, including works Krkpatrick Cmmat ' ofhandwoven tapestry, art quilts, baskets, and sculptural the Omnipkw.2100 j pieces. Artists including Dottie Smith ofTulsa, Pamela Northeast A&-secocona Husky of Stigler, and Elia Woods of Oklahoma City, well Street in Okkzboma known for her method of transferring photographic im- Cig (405)602&22; ages to fiber, right, are expected to participate. omniplex.03 I OKLAHOMATODAY .MARCH/APRIL 2003 l8 I ,l-d-- -I .-

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HE OKLAHOMA BEAN PROJECT ness. Also inside the Kaiser's Building, Gratell Tand Grateful Bean Cafk have a lot to do Bean Manufacturing ~roduceshomemade with food, yes. But even more important is breads, ten 1910 trademarked flavors of Kaiser's their goal of giving people a second chance. ~unch,coordinator Peter Schaffer's homemade In September 1992, a group of Oklahoma ice cream recipe, and ofcourse that popular soup City attorneys, business owners, and volunteers mix, a healthy, eleven-bean blend. started the Oklahoma Bean Project as a small The Kaiser's Building itself is part of the mix. dry bean manufacturing company similar to Declared a historical landmark in 1978, the its model, the Denver Women's Bean Project. 19 18 bcility has always been home to home- With a similar mission of hiring and training made ice cream and a friendly smile. The OBP people like a resume-less divorcee, starving art- prides itselfon continuing that tradition, in part ist, or first-time offender, the OBP gives intel- by restoring the building to its original splendor. ligent people who don't have the resources or A case in point: In August 2002, Rodney Dun- right breaks a decent job. can meticulously ~aintedthe buildings exterior, Today, the OBP does much more than help brush stroke by brush stroke. Research assistant the unemployable and package beans within its Kay Walls says, "Not only did the OBP give him two businesses, Gratell Bean Cafk and Grate- the opportunity to work and show his skills, but ful Bean Manufacturing. The cafe opened its 2 darn ifhe didn't do a good job." 2 doors in Aprii 1993 in downtown Oklahoma With new awnings, painstakingly researched 4 City's historic Kaiser's Building and this year stained glass window reproductions, a working celebrates its tenth year in the restaurant busi- soda fountain, and the original Kaiser's neon sign 2

20 1 OKLAHOMATODAY MARCH/APRIL 2003 "I'd like to bs involved in something that has meaning, such as the Qklahoma Bean Project has. I believe in the concept." -QBP coordinator Peter Srhaffer, in the Daily Oklahoman he&edoor~diningat&eOBP%G&b~isastep~in he,wholesome fiwd h& on thepriarity list. FmmLoWCajun ing that Kaiser's ice CrMin d~beamsmd~mmhu~~21~~h~pita,~e&usesonlyParlor once culled h- tho pEaumsque OratM neml C& thebest~entsh~~-ivOred~.iAUsandwiches arrive offers atona glhnpm +a& to anhom~bd,dtheieaeambdefrom~tchwid.1~ the days of tiso *orlatountolln. &en,ts, But don't let the atrention to detail and quality fbod seare The cd,which Morr sixty, you;Prices rangefixan $3.%for abowlofsoup a, $1.95for the Medim- servesfresh and healthy meals raneanSadsampler. Uve dws a week. hyaudine at the restmured, you are beingd.Every food handler must pass several in-house tests and hold a valid fbod serviceoperator's cedclate,a rquirementd abovethe one required by the state health dqmment. Soda famtaineerPain 'Wiightsap, "I like the GramBean anditspurpose-helping people, It'sbeen good fbr me, mdit3 the claesst place to eatin tom." Gipeopleaseumd chance, serving~tii~~e,and man-bean soupby the bagmght seemanincongruousmllec- tionaf~ons.For~iOWomaBeanPmjaa,~Bean~ iusdG;ta&Bean&-wem@ka*. -M~leEmm~Ils THERANGE

agreementwith the state,so there area fkw in stateparks." Thoseon the hunt input the cache's coordinatesinto Global Geocaching Cachet PositioningSystems (GPS)devices.A GPS unit takes data from 1 satellitesand provides users their exactlongitudinaland latitudinal 1 EOCACHERS HAVE GREAT COORDINATION-EVEN locations.Thatdata, in turn, enablesthegeocacherto findhis way Uthosewho -t rub their bellies and chewgum at thesametime. to thecache. That's because in geocaching,participants attemptto find abox, Despite all the technologicalmumbo-jumbo, the activity or cache, of goodiesplaced according to latitudinaland longitudi- amountsto a condensed scavengerhunt. "Hidinga cache is defi- nal coordinates.Such cachesare stashed in many cityandcountry nitelymore fUn for me than findingcaches," says Sam Gdoob of locationsthroughoutOklahoma. Norman. "It's the mischievousaspect of trying to trick somebody, "People go by themwithout even knowingit," saysWesley likeplaying hideand seek." Horton, a geocacherfromMidwest City. The bounty insideis often an unusual collectionof inexpen- Ben Randleoffulsa, who sive items. (Horton,for instance,oncefoundlight bulbs for acar foundedtheTulsaArea Geocach- taillight.) Regularcachesare placed in containersabout thesize of ers, says geocachersoften play a shoebox,and microcachesare smallerand thus more difficultto by a "cache in, trash out" policy, find.Therearealsovirtual cachesthat involve no itemsat all.The I whereby participants pick up coordinates,instead,mightpoint to a scenicspot. trashwhile searchingfor caches. Therearefewrules to geocaching,but one caveat I Such cooperationhas helped applies: People who find cachesare encouraged geocachers obtain thenecessary to takean item, but in thespiritof thegame, they approval&om ciry and stateof- should always replace it. -James S. TF ficialswith littleor no hs. "We 1 For inznnationabout OkUornaC&S, to

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A R K A N s A s wwn,.vanbul.en.ord Mav 10th €4 11th Old Timer's Day Vic Burnham, right, and Dr. Don Wyckoff work at a 1986 dig. Their searches uneartheda number of fossils including a bison skull, below, with flint cobbles in place. In Search of Ancient Hunters I AN OKLAHOMAN DIGS DEEP FOR STATE HISTORY I Curious? F YOU CAN MEASURE A MAN'S would call when they found something , Internshipsin editorial, advertising, circulation, and marketing are available Iachievementsby the number of rocks interesting, and I rushed to pick it up, at Oklahoma Todayyear-round. For he's collected,mine has been a whaleof a look it over, and add it to mv collection, more information,call (405) 521-2496 success.At age five, I began a pattern that eventually or (800)777-1793. scouringthe ground for threatened to overtake a www.oklahomatoday.com artifacts,fossils, and relics number of homes. OKLAHOMA of the past. Duringmyadult ears, I It's hard to describe how began to devour everyissue I felt when I found my first ofNationalGeographic, arrowhead,a beautiful, faximatedwith artideson almost gem-qudity sliver excavationsofancient sites ofagate. I helh it up to the like Folsom, Clovis, Nean- sunlight. Tiny aquatic fossils derchal,Cro Magnon,and embedded in a three-inch, Homo Erectus in Europe finely crafted blade-the ob- andAfrica.Throughout ject made thousands ofyears thoseyears, my imagination ago by my ancestors-seized .played with the thought my imagination. Fifty ofwhat itwould be 6eto years later, it still refuses to let go. discoverasimilarsitein northwestOkla- From that moment, an active imagina- homa But never in mywildestdramdid tion evolved into an obsession. By the I believe that discoverywould occur on my mid- 1960s, I was finding an artifactalmost My's land. everyday. My family owned an earthmov- During the 1970s,I was driven to ing business and a farm in northwest discover anything that would point more --IGreat State. Oklahoma that allowed me to cover a lot clearlyto when the earliestpeople settled Great Magazine. I of land, ever watchhl for anything out in Oklahoma. At the time, most scholars ' of m lace on the ground. Soon, neighbors believed Clovis people arrived in Okla-

OKLAHOMATODAY MARCH/APRIL 2003 24 I homa between 10to 13,000years Before Present (BP).Butwhen, Iwondered,had they appeared in northwest Oklahoma? Duringa 1986visitwit.hDr. DonWyckoff, then directoroftheOklahomaArcheological Survey,I ofkred to show mydctcollec- tion, and to my greatsurprise, there itwas, a Clovis fragment.Thatsameyear, I uncovered what is nowknown as the BurnharnSite, an ancient killsitewith remains of mammoth, bison,horse, andevidenceof man dating fiom26,000 BI? In fall 1986,archaeologistsfrom five universities began working at the site, and my familyand I developed a friendship with Dr. Wyckoff and his colleagues. My association with these scholarsled me to try to locatesimilarsitesin northwest Oklahoma. During my lifetime,I have discoveredmore than three hundred sites containingfossils and human tools.

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~Wpaeto~dinmdfora~niqus~ Chled Eeerience in Eatery Seasd ' "darch 7*9:'WranglerTuned Event Championship of the World" at the Lazy E Arena. (405)282-3004 March 11-14''Spring Music Festival" featur~ngUCOb Chamber Orchestra,SyrnphonlcBand, W~ndEnsemble and Eh'EM DENNIS]. REIMER, A A- Choral concerts. (405)769-9621 rd native, was named director of the NationalMemorialInmnm~$rtheGfi March 22 & 23: "Edmond Highland Games" hention the 8th annual Scott~shher~tagefestival event presented by oflmrtjm in OklakomaCityinApd2000. the Un~tedScott~shClans of Oklahoma. (405)769-9621 Geneml Reimerpreyi~~~Lysewed as the C . April 5: "Swing" nom~natedfor 6 Tony Awards, th~atourlng of Stdfffbr the UnitedStdtes Amy during hk Broadway show IS part of UCO's Broadway Ton~ghtSer~es. thirty-smen-year military career. He and hk wifeMaryJo live in Edmond May 24: 24th Annual Downtown Edmond Arts Festival, Q: Who or what inspires you? A: Servingmy country made me feel that I was paying back, to some extent, I all of those who came before me and ' sacrificed so much to give me the opportunities I enjoy as an American. 825 E. 2nd St., Ste. 100 Edmond, OK 73034 405/341-4344 Q: What is your favorite book? ) www.visitedmondok.com A: Once an Edge by Anton Myrer. Email: [email protected]

Q: What is your favorife quote? A: "That all men are created equal, that they areendowedby their Creatorwith certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness," from the Declarationof Independence.

Q: What do you enjoy in your free time? A: Running or going to a movie with my wife, if I have the chance.

Q: What's your favorite place in Oklahoma? A: Medford, where I grew up.

Q: What are among the Memwiol Institute's mostimportantprojects? A: All of the projects we have sponsored are important, and some have received national attention, such as the Dark Winter Exercise which led to the deci- sion to purchase enough smallpoxvac- cine for every man, woman, and child in the United States.

Q: What is the most memorablething # about your military career? ~SOMIXS~IN~.I NS infomation A: Helping lead the army to meet the I% I challenges of today, tomorrow, and DENlSONCONVENTION & VISITOR'S BUREAU 313 W. Woodard St. Denison, TX 75020 / 903.465.1551 the hture while still remaining the www.denisontewastourism.com J e-mail: denisoncoc@texornan@t best army in the world. I fiOT FIFEEN MINUTES? THAT'S AU THE TIME YOU'LL NEEDTO EMBRACE THE QUIZ byourinner Okie. What makes a true Oklahoman?You're about to find out. Is it knowledge of the Dust Bowl?The number of oil wells at the State Capitol? (It's two, by the way). We've scoured the Plains and grilled the locals to determine what counts when it comes to your Oklahoma IQ. So dig deep into your memory, recall the days of Oklahoma history class, and be prepared to relate. Don't research the questions; go with your gut. If you really are genuine Oklahoma material, you may wonder if we've been spying on you. No one's watching, but the honor system is in force. Sit back, grab a calculator, and begin your test. Just keep your eyes on your own paper. When you're finished, take a peek at the answers on page 33 and see how you rate.

I OKLAHOMATODAY MARCH/APRIL 2003 If you have an OU or OSU de 1.If you eat ranch dressing 6 myour car, add 3. If you have a lo decal on your car, subtract 10. If it's on more than just your salad, down, add 3 instead.

add 5. If you prefer a green If you've read Mankiller's biograp 7 add 5. If you think Mankiller is g salad with light Italian on the legal term, subtract 10.

side and think ranch refers If you can name Oklahoma's first Re- 8 .publican governor, add 7. only to the place where cows Ifyou knowwho StandWatie is, add 7. and horses live, subtract 5. 9 Ifyou think Stand Watie is what you do ...... in line at the Wal-Mart, subtract 3...... If you know what "Oklahoma" means, 2 .add 5. Ifyou know what language the Ifyou canname or describe a pieceof art at word derives from, add 10. 10. the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum If you can belt out the state song, i 3i .add 5. Don't know when Oklahoma in Oklahoma City, add 5. If you've never heard of received statehood? Subtract 5. i the museum, subtract 7. I......

Ifyou've visited the Round Barn, the Blue 4 Whale, or the National Route 66 Mu- seum, add 5. If never driven a stretch of Oklahoma Route 66, subtract 15.

If you've ever raised garden-fresh to- 5 mmatoes, add 3. If you've never eaten homegrown tomatoes, subtract 4.

try superstars from Oklahoma, ; add 2. Ifyou went to highschool ; with them, add 4. If you are re- ! lated to one of them, add 1

r TRIVIA 1 29 with the whistle pictured at left, add 3. If i j you know his real first name, add 4. If you - i know his record, add 10...... I E 12 If you can correctly pronounce If you know the fate of the USS S .Miami, Durant, Prague, and 17.Oklahoma, add 10. $ Gotebo, add 5. \ h For each of the Kiowa Five artists you If a man has ever told you your purse canname, add 4. If you can name 5! 13isthe same color as his John Deere 18 b the group's patron, add another 4. % tractor, add 10. Did you attend college out of state? If you think Oklahoma is in the 19.Subtract 2. Have you lived in Okla- 14.South9 add 1.If you're positive homa all your life? Add 15. *re you back Oklahoma is in the West, add 1. If you in OMahoma after moving away for more believe that, without a doubt, Oklahoma than five years?Add 10.D~you currently is in the Midwest, add 1. live outside Oklahoma? Subtract 5. Do ...... : you currently live outside Oklahoma but 15 i subscribe to Oklahoma Today? Add 5. .If you've ever dined ; If you can name Oklahoma's first under the SOU~~U~gaze of 20 capital city, add 3. I~YOUcan name ,i the year the capital moved to its present

delicious, add 5 more.

/ L 1 .If you think cowboy boots go well with i a tuxedo, add 8. If you have ever been in ! a truck-limousine, add another 5. If you've ; been 15 abonster truck jam, add 3. If you .F,y*-ig : i own a monster truck, add 12:. w: .r.-r-.q

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For each of the four OUIOSU 23 .Heisman trophy winners you can name, add 4. If you find college football as interesting as watching grass grow, subtract 10.

If you go to the beauty shop to get 24 .your hair done, add 6. If you are a client who goes only to salons and sees a stylist for your color weave, subtract 5.

If you're a fourth-generation Okla- 25 .homan, add 10. Third-generation? Add 5.

If a Garth Brooks CD or cassette 26 .tape has never entered your music ' collection, past or present, subtract 3. If If you stayed in Oklahoma you own the box set, add 3. 3Z. ! for your honeymoon, add 15. ere Jimmy Webb, i Thomas I? StafTord,

For each of the Five CivilizedTribes If you know the identityof "the little 33 .you can name, add 1 point. -giant from Little Dixie," add 5. If you've ever attended the Red River If you lost money in the 1982 col- 34.Rivalry, add 5. If you think the Red 29 lapse of Penn Square Bank, go ahead, River Rivalry is a battle for water passageway add 6. You deserve it. ownership, subtract 3.

If you smile at strangers, add 3. If If you've never seen Oklahoma!(the 30 you routinely start conversationswith 35 movie or the play), subtract 10. strangers, add 4. If the friendly cashier at If you've seen one or the other more than the IGA makes you nervous, subtract 5. once, add 4...... r' I.; If you've read: S.E. Hinton's The j' 31.If YOU traveled to and from / 22 Outsiders, add 4. Steinbeck's The i Grapes of Wrath, add 6. Ralph Ellison's i all Of yOUr high school dates in a Invisible Man, add 8. Michael Wallis' Oil i Man, add 10. woody Guthrie's Boundfor pj~ktliltruck, add 5. If you're Glory, add 12. Angie Debo's A History of i the Indians ofthe Unitedstates, add 15. ~f ' ridingifl it, add 3 more. your favoritebook is The Gates oftheAlamo ...... by Stephen Harrigan, subtract 5...... Ifyou own a pair of Rockies, add 3. - - .If you ever bought a pair of Rock- i ies one size too small, add 2. If you think i 46. ~fyou've ever attended i Rockies arejust a mountain range out West, i i subtract 5. ; a rodeo, add 5. If you wore : 43 1fYouknow who said,"Even ifyou're Birkenstocks, ' .on the right track, you'll get run over ...... ) if YOU just sit there," add 4. I' If you regularly meet friends for If you know what the Latin term 44.morning " coffee at 6 a.m.. add 5. 47 Gailkzrdia means, add 7. If vou If you understand what vcuram'' If you meet at the co-op, add 3. If the think Gaillardia is a mispronunciation of a 37 means in Oklahoma, add 5. Ifyou conversation involvesthe weather, ag futures, Dallas shopping mall, subtract 10. know what "A House Divided bumper or politics, add another 3. stickers mean, add another 5. If you're ...... a member of such a household, bless you, and add 5.

If you can name architect Frank ( YOU think PikePass is a fancv football .LI~~~IWright's "tree rhat escaped . - - 38 b the crowded forest," add 6. or fishing term, subtract 6. /-\ Ifyou know the lyrics to "B.C. Clark's 39.Christmas Jingle," add 3.

If you've ever dined 40 .at an establishment where you can simultane- 1 ously order a chicken-fried steak, gas up the truck, get a fishing license, and read the lo- I, cal paper, add 6. If you can buy cad dewormer there, too, add 5.

If you know what a brush hog is, 41 .add 5.

m If you know the difference between 45. If you have the right of 49 ma small-mouth bass and a sported bass, add 3. Ifyou think the word "crappie" way at a four-way stop butwave is a misspelling of the expletive "crappy," subtract 3. everybody else on anyway, add And finally, for every year you've sub- 1 6. If you fail to give the hand- 50. scribed to Oklahoma Today,add 1. For every gift subscriptionyou give, add 1. on-steering-wheel wave asthey For every gift subscription you start today, add 2. For every issue you have in your pass, subtract 5. home library, add 1. If someone passed this quiz on to you because you're not a subscriber, shame on you. Subscribe now, and add 10.

DAY MARCH/APRIL 2003 32 1 (Z)~UMM@~~&V?!Below zero The points don't ge; you need Oklahoma trivia, fast. Whether a new import or a bit rusty, you hdwe a little Eitheryou an,denying your &rn wwyor you haven't red dirt under the wheels of your pickup. You know discovered your inner Oh. Butthere is time to change. proper tornado drill protocol, Grab some chicken-fried steak but you just aren't singin' with and a fishing pole and head to Vince-yet. If you live large in the Sooner Stale, ASAP. Before Boston or Lor Angeles, take some you know it, you'll be cheering time to explore all of Oklahoma, for crimson or orange and hum- from the Coleman Theatre in Mi- ming Toby Keith's "How Do You ami (make sure you pronounce it Like Me Now?" my-a-muh) to the Quartz Moun- tains near Lone Wolf. Remember: Practice makes perfect.

Echoing t4m state &ng (likewe needed to tellyou that), "We're only sayin' you're doin' fine, Oklahomal" You have what it takes to be a true-blue Oklaho- man, but you haven't reached master status. Even through your veins, along with a little oil. though you need You are geared with misdetoe, scissor-taihd to brush up on the flycatcher, and fiddle. You live by the motto "Lab year of the land rush Conquers All Things," zip around the state with your (1889) or practice trusty Pikepass, and have a lifetime subscription to the "Oklahoma Hills," Chmnidos of OMahomot to mention Oklahoma for you, Oklahoma Todayi You have never met a stranger and always

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first Republican governor in 1962.9. Stand Wm: edee and the last Confederate general to surrender in the Civil War. 10. For starters, look - for the 18' tdl marble Canyon Princess or the bm *nting, In hom the Night Herd. 11. Our picks: Reba McEntire, Kiowa High School; - Garth Brooks, Yukon High School; Toby kith, k@;eEfil@f1&hb3aI; Vince Gill, Northwest Classen High School. 12. Miami (mycrmuh), Durant (durclnt), .: Prague (praygel, Gotebo (g&). 16. The m& Mtbei~is legendary OU football coach Bud Wilkinson. His first name is Charles, and his record " was 145-29-4. 17. The USS Oklahoma war tra~~qtwlsank at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. 18. The Kiowa Five are Spencer Asah, James Auchiah, Jack Hokeah, Stephen Mopope, arjd Mmpge Tim&&*. Their patron was Oscar Jacobson, 20. Outhrie was the first capital of Oklahoma. It moved to Oklahoma City on June 1 1, 1910. #.OU: Steve Owens, and Billy Sims. OW: Barry Sanders. 27. Jimmy Webb: Born in Elk City Uigkek, ' (1946). Reba McEntire: Born in Chockie (1955). Thohas P. Stafford: Born in Weatherford (1930). Carl Albert: Born in Bugtussle (1908). 28. The "little is giant kom Little Dixie" is Carl Albert. 33. The Five Civilid Trrhs are Cherokee, Chickasaw, Chochw, Creek, and Seminole. 37. Bedlam the name ' given to the spom rivalry between OSU and 0"."A House Wided'' is one in which one member is an OU loyalist, another an OSU fan. 38. The "tree that escoped the crowded forest" is Price Tower in Bcsrtlesville. 39. Check out bcclark.com for lyrics to the iingle. 41. "Brush hog" refers to the piece of - I' -- equipment which clears brush kom a field. 4% Will Rogers. 47. The Galllardia, or Indian Blanket, is the official state flower. The Dallas shopping mecco ' is the Galleria. 49. Smalhouth bass frequent clear, gravehttom streams in Oklahoma, whereas spotted bass are more tolerant of slow, warm, turbid - I ' '' water and tend to iohabit the flowing streams of eastern Oklahoma.

NG, THE IDEAL TIME FOR DRIVER MEETS AUTOMOBILE, automob' meets i L In 2003, the season spans ninety-two days, and it's anyone's guess howA kmrr,Ses of asphalt, hard-packed dirt, and gravel spiral and crisscross their way through the Sooner State. What better combination than the halcyon days of spring and a motorized perspective for watching the sites, colors, and textures of Oklahoma's grandeur move swijtly by? Best ofall, a road trip is its own justification. Thefamiliar stretch of highway can seem a comforting oldfriend, the virgin journey a new acquaintance met with anticipation. Here, seven Oklahoma Today contributors have traveled their own favorite drives. Consider their journeys test-drives for your own. And don'tforget to crack the sunroofand roll down the windows-for the ideal Oklahoma road trip, wind-whipped hair is essential.

TRAVEL 35 TALIMENA SCENIC BYWAY ~y~ouglas~e~ey THE TALIMENA SCENIC BYWAY, FIFTY-FOUR plate movements under the Gulf of Mexico), and other points of miles of natural splendor, is one of Oklahoma's interest on surrounding mountains and valleys. finest jewels. Between Talihina on the west end Because the western end of the drive is dominated by shortleaf and Mena, Arkansas, on the east (hence the name), and loblolly pine, the view down the valley and across neighboring the byway follows the ridge tops of the rugged and hills retains its green sweep year-round. Progressing eastward, the Isteep Winding Stair and Rich Mountain chain of the Ouachita pines gradually give way to the oak and maple hardwoods that give Mountains, providing long views across the Poteau and Kiamichi the Talimena Scenic Byway its renowned fall foliage colors. Valley floors far below. In the fall, people travel from hundreds of miles away to see Talihina is an old, railroad town. Start with a visit to Cranford's the autumn colors of the changing leaves. The bold fall scenery Boot Shop for a visit with Leon Cranford, in business for forty years is indeed impressive, but those privileged to live close enough to repairing and reconditioning boots. If you intend to hike all or make the drive during other, off-season times-when traffic is just a portion of the 186-mile Ouachita National Trail that closely much lighter-may enjoy views chat, in their own ways, are just parallels the Talimena, Cranford is a good person to know. as stunning. If you don't spoil your appetite at the Treats and Treasures At the eastern end of the Oklahoma portion of the drive, stop old-fashioned soda fountain, stop by the Kiamichi Kitchen for and see the iron survey marker that in 1825 established the border an Indian taco. Be sure to leave Talihina properly nourished, between Arkansas and the Choctaw Nation. The survey, performed both you and your vehicle: Once on the byway, except for several by James Conway, later the first governor of Arkansas, was in er- campgrounds and trailheads, the only signs of civilization are the ror, giving that state a 136,000-acre slice that should have been scenic overlooks along the way. Choctaw land. Fifty years later, a monetary settlement was reached, The overlooks are worth the stops. It is not uncommon to have but the mistake was never corrected. breathtaking vistas of the Ouachita forest on both sides of the To leave theTalimena Scenic Byway, backtrack fifteen miles from highway at the same time. While admiring the views of Sugarloaf the state line and drop out of the mountains on U.S. 259 into Mountain and Sunset Point Vista, read U.S. Forest Service signs the Poteau Valley. Hungry again? Check out the Southern Belle about the unique limestone and sandstone mountains, one of only Restaurant in Heavener. Converted from a real railroad passenger two ranges in North America to run east and west (a result of the car, it's an intimate way to end the drive.

Long considered a scenic drive, the route from Talihina to Mena, Ar- kansas, recently war officially named the Talimena Scenic Byway. is Dough Kelley is the author afThe Captain's Wife, winner afthe 2002 the only road in the state builtexpressly for its view. Oklahoma Book Awardfor fiction. He lives in Pocola.

OKLAHOMATODAY .MARCH/APRIL 2003 36 1 FOSS TO SAYRE BY ~ollyHendrix CHECKLIST: BINOCULARS, CAMERA,TANK OF Highway 47, you'll find the Black Kettle Museum in Cheyenne, gas, and imagination. Got that, and you're set for a day which provides background and perspective on the nearby Washita full of wildlife and history in western Oklahoma. Battlefield. The battlefield's National Historic Site headquarters The journey starts at the intersection of Interstate are also located near that intersection, on the southwest corner. 40 and State Highway 44 in Foss, where you head Intrigued? Take a quick side trip to the site. It's about two miles north toward Foss Lake on S.H. 44. After six miles of red shale outside town. Take S.H. 47 West, passing the American Indian- hills and windmills, you'll see the marina and the eastern edge of themed murals and window decorations in downtown Cheyenne, the 8,800-acre reservoir. When crossing the three-mile dam, keep then turn north on State Highway 47A. As you make that turn, an eye out for the ducks and waterfowl who intermittently call you'll see the Black Kettle National Grasslands Ranger Station. Foss State Park home. As the road winds around, you'll come to the battlefield site. A Continue to Butler, where you'll ease westward on State Highway raised gazebo provides a vantage point to overlook the Washita 33 into the Washita National Wildlife Refuge. Here, you'll have River Valley, where the Southern Cheyenne chief Black Kettle a better chance at bird watching on the more than 8,000 acres set made his camp at a bend in the river in November 1868. aside to provide a feeding and resting ground for Canadian geese You'll see the ridges behind which Lieutenant Colonel George and other migratory birds. Custer and his eight hundred troops hid, seeking revenge for Indian 1 Highway 33 rolls on through emerald green wheatland dotted raids on white settlements in Kansas. Peacemaker Black Kettle had / with oil wells and Angus cattle. Neatly kept farmhouses, interspersed sought protection from the federal government, leading many to with weathered cemeteries and rusted water towers, mark the way label the battle a massacre. 1' through Hammon and Strong City. To complete the day's drive, head back to U.S. 283 and drive As the road butts into U.S. Highway 283 and turns south south toward Sayre, through more acres of rolling hills, horses graz- toward Cheyenne, you're already within the boundaries of the ing on shale-spotted pastures, and John Deere tractors standing at 1 Black Kettle National Grasslands. This 30,724-acre tract was pur- the ready. Soon, you're back at 1-40, where seventy mile-per-hour chased by the United States government in the 1930s in an effort speed limits whisk you to a dif- - to restore land eroded by the Dust Bowl. Its ecosystem includes ferent, faster-paced world. both tall and shortgrass prairies, and it offers opportunities for hiking, boating, and still more wildlife viewing. Holly Hendrix is assistant editor of Continuing south, at the intersection of U.S. 283 and State America's Horse magazine. She lives Highway 47, you'll find the Black Kettle Museum in Cheyenne, in Amarillo, Exas. TULSA TO Michael Wallis OKLAHOMA CITY ALTHOUGH THERE ARE IMPRESSIVE SEC- tions of asphalt and concrete in all eight Route 66 states between Chicago and Santa Monica, my prime choice for Mother Road cruising is the ribbon of old highway winding from Tulsa to Oklahoma City. The necklace of towns-Sapulpa, Kellyville, Bristow, Depew, Stroud, Davenport, Chandler, Wellston, Luther, Arcadia--each offers its own particular enticements, ranging from a restored vintage Phillips 66 gas station to the world-famous Round Barn. This length of Route 66 not only connects the state's two largest cities but also allows travelers to savor some of the most scenic countryside and hospitable stops the historic highway has to offer. From Sapulpa to Arcadia, familiar landmarks such as the Frankoma Pottery plant, Lincoln Motel, and scores of others lure new generations of two-lane cruisers back to the way things used to be before the nation became generic. With all of this cruising, I've chosen to digress from traditional road stops and focus on food. The cuisine available on this stretch alone is worth the trip. Here are three of my favorites.

TARTING IN THE EAST-ACROSS THE - SArkansas River fromTulsa-in the bedroom community of Red Fork, travelers often pause at Ollie's a ' '

Station Restaurant. Patrons regularly proclaim that -- the fried chicken, dinner rolls the size ofa roughneck's fist, and bowls overflowingwith peach bread pudding taste like the food made by their mom or grandma, the -merge as one of the most resilient businesses highest compliment for any down-home cook. ~nRoute 66. Just ahead, the truly famished can visit several A local man named Roy Rives built the cafe worthy haunts in Sapulpa including the Diamond ~flarge sandstone rocks on land he bought Bart's Cafe. Former New Yorker Lisa Barthold and ~n 1936. The rocks came from the roadbed her daughter Anya Grarniak opened their restaurant as highway workers finished paving Route 66 in 2002 at the site of the famed Norma's Cafe, operated for decades through eastern Oklahoma. Rives, who shelled out a whopping by the late Norma Lee Hall. Besides standard road dishes, diners five dollars for the huge pile of rocks, devoted the next three years at the Diamond Bart feast on meatball hoagies, heaping plates of to building the cafe. spaghetti, and ravioli-size apple pies served as post-breakfast treats. Thelma Holloway-the cafe's first proprietress--opened the A photograph of Norma Hall graces a cafe wall along with other Rock for business on August 4, 1939. The cafe was an instant Route 66 memorabilia. success. It soon became a bus stop for Greyhound, and during Then there's the Rock Cafe. World War 11, many young men took their sweethearts to the cafe I always pause at this one-of-a-kind before leaving for military service. When the war ended and the hunk of living Route 66 history. Since troops came home, the Rock was usually their first stop. first opening in 1939, the Rock in Old-timers, who gather to sip coffee and swap lies, speak of the Stroud has turned out thousands ice storms and trucks sliding like hockey pucks down the highway

- of juicy burgers, tons of cobbler, in front of the cafe. They recall power failures when cooks had to and an ocean of chili for famished use the open fireplace in the dining room to prepare meals and -7customers. Through the years, this keep customers warm. Others remember pushing the jukebox

cafe has survived highway- . bypasses,.. to an open window so the town kids could dance outside under - oil busts, and killer tornadoes to the moonlight.

OKLAHOMATODAY .MARCH/APRIL 2003 I8 I RouteMiswellknownforibcoudess historicanduniquelandmarks. The Round Barn in Arcadia, built in 1898, wasa dancehall and a home for livestock before its restoration in the early 1990%

In 1993, as the Route 66 revival began, a young woman named Dawn Welch took over the Rock. It was a good match. Today, Dawn and her husband Fred serve everything from buffalo burgers and Cajun dishes to German and Swiss cuisine. ARCADIA.. .Hillbillee'r Cafe GENEAUIRI...T~~~~~~Q.~B~~, :,. .; ,:i12s The couple also gets carryout calls, and once catered a function (405)396-9600 (580129431 51 - - ~5;? >? :; n!:':,:~ti** at a nudist colony tucked away on Route 66. One day, a man i::.,M;?*". < ,@ %!-$ s.> skating the length of Route 66 paused for a meal and left a BEAVER...~d'8Darlene's Cafe GROW.. .Royal Bo@&~f$$,$: souvenir wheel behind. (580)6253285 191 81 78M386 6,-',?$, ,q.%, "We consider everyone who comes to our place to be a .zhp ~~34 d.: *&+"+k friend," says Dawn. "Just think, we get to be with our kids BOISE CtN. ..Windmill Bakery MIAMI...Montona &3i@ every day, and they meet people from around the world. We (580) 544-3348 19 1 81 5424808 *f$&i4; ,,, :~'5z,f live a perfect dream." ',IP-3;'y:&L .= Now you know why I like this ride so much. The food, the c:.'%*-.r . BUNR...The Cowboy Corner SULPHUR.:,Tb RBI&$ '.fy 1!$&2 folks, the familiar road. Try it for yourself. Live your own perfect (580)664-5951 (5~0)622-31i&&J;-,;@ dream. You will never regret a minute. .: :,;f$j&+&<#y A , ,:.> , T+,s, ~f .!?pi. CHEYENNE...#I Okie TAHIEQUAH. :;~E~@P&W ; Contributing editor Michael Wallis is the author ofeleven books, including a- '7 ,, c f500j 497-2584 (918) 45f@JX&&~n,C+ ' a Route 66:The Mother Road. .. :,'$ "" .- + WOODWARD TO KENTON BY Chad Love IT MAY SEEM ODD TO START A DRIVE WITH restaurants, and a quick detour south on U.S. 54 to Goodwell a stop, but Boiling Springs State Park, just north and the No Man's Land Museum gives an entertaining look at ofwoodward on State Highway 34C, is worth it. the Panhandle's unique history. Established during the Depression, the 820-acre West of Guymon, the land and road flatten out, and fields of park is considered a hidden jewel among Woodward irrigated cropland dot the area. Keep an eye out for wandering .:sidents. Take one last look at those trees though, because from bands of pronghorn, the fastest land animal in North America. this point on, it's big sky and shortgrass country. Boise City is the seat of Cimarron County, and the town's unique As you travel northwest on U.S. 412, the land begins to rise and circular highway interchange ensures that you'll get a good view spread out toward the horizon. Sagebrush covers the rolling hills, of the county courthouse as you circle around it looking for the and red-tailed hawks ride the thermals. Fifteen miles northwest correct highway to take, State Highway 325 west toward Kenton. of Woodward sits historic Fort Supply, an important military The drive from Boise City to Kenton is deceiving. You begin in post from 1868 to 1894. The site, open to the public, offers an typical Panhandle farm country, but as the road curves north, you interesting look at frontier life. are suddenly thrust into a sweeping High Plains plateau. Cropland West of Fort Supply, the highway turns due west, and as you falls away, replaced by yucca and prickly pear. Be sure to stop at the cross into Beaver County, a fundamental change occurs. This is No Santa Fe Trail turnout for a good view of the historic trail's route. Man's Land, the beginning of the true arid West. It's big, lonely Approaching Kenton, massive outcroppings of rock and stands country, with a few gas stations but no sizable towns between Fort of juniper challenge your impression of what Oklahoma should Supply and Hardesty. look like. North of Kenton is the roof of the state, 4,973-foot Black The road west is arrow-straight but not flat. The rolling hills Mesa. The four-mile walking trail is worth the effort, but take plenty are dotted by windmills and small, mostly dry creek beds lined of water and watch for snakes. with the ubiquitous prairie cottonwoods. Afier the hike, a drive to the historic Kenton Mercantile is in order, Turn north on U.S. 270 for a quick trip to Beaver, home of the where you can munch on a Dinosaur Burger. While you're there, stroll World Cow Chip Throwing Championship. If you'd rather not across the state line, just to say you walked to New Mexico. It's onlv try your hand, Beaver Dunes State Park, just north of town, is a a few hundred feet away. 520-acre area of shifting, shimmering sand dunes. Guymon isn't quite the end of the Sooner world, but you can Chad Love is a writer living in Wood- just about see it from there. If you're heading west, Guymon is ward. He is also the author of "The the last major population center in Oklahoma. There are several Story of Wind, "page 46. -- SPRINGER TO GENE AUTRY BY Caroline Lara 1TOSSUP BETWEEN HIKING OR SHOPPING? to the south is the Santa Fe Depot, which now houses the Davis The forty-five-mile trip from Springer through Davis Museum and displays items donated or loaned by the citizens ind Sulphur to Gene Autry offers both outdoor of Davis and the surrounding areas. Davis' downtown is full of md indoor recreational opportunities. antique and collectible shops, so park the car, take a stroll, and This drive is off to a fast start with a visit to see what treasures you can find. the Ardmore Raceway on U.S. Highway 77 in Springer. Billed as At the junction of S.H. 7 and U.S. Highway 177in Sulphur, turn "the oldest continuously operated drag strip in the world," track south into the nearly 10,000-acre Chickasaw National Recreation operator Johnnie Laird says, "We race almost anything with wheels, Area. Famous for both mineral and freshwater springs, the area as long as it meets safety requirements." The track's season runs features a nature center, twenty-eight miles of maintained trails, six from March through November, with races on the first and third campgrounds, and numerous picnic spots. Anglers should check weekends each month. out the Lake of the ArbucMes to fish for white and largemouth Heading north on U.S. 77, you'll pass the Lazy S Ranch on the bass, crappie, and catfish. east side of the road. The 10,000-acre spread has been a working Continue down U.S. 177 and turn west on State Highway ranch since 1890. You can't miss its white limestone sign perched 53 toward Gene Autry. Formerly known as Berwyn, the town atop the hill-it's as long as a football field and almost eight sto- was renamed in 1941 to honor movie actor and singing star ries high. The drive then takes a gentle climb into the Arbuckle Gene Autry, who owned a ranch nearby. When the town's Mountains. Formed 500 million years ago, these mountains once school closed in 1989, citizens decided to preserve the build- were taller than the Rockies, but due to geological upheaval and ing and the legacy of the singing cowboy with the Gene Autry eons of weathering, they now rise no more than a thousand feet Oklahoma Museum. above the Plains. Cowboys and cowgirls can pose for photos with a life-sized model The next stop is Turner Falls Park, where travelers can swim, ofAutry's horse Champion, outfitted with one ofAutry's saddles and hike, or explore. Check out the three natural caves, said to have a replica of his trademark pistol bridle. An annual film and music been outlaw hideouts in territorial days. Turning east on State festival the last weekend in September features singing cowboy mov- Highway- . 7 takes you through- Davis. Across the railroad tracks ies and western performers from around the country. The museum, a nostalgic tribute to the days ofwhite-hatted heroes on horseback, Cecil Crosby, deputy sheriff of Carter County, was responsible for the idea of changing the name of Berwyn to Gene Autry. More provides a charming conclusion to this day trip. than 35,000 people attended the dedication in 1941, including Governor Leon Phillips and the singing cowboy himself. Caroline Lara is afieehnce writer in Ardmore. WICHITA MOUNTAINSAREA on ~ackson

EVERWANTEDTOWATCH AHERD OF BUFFALO vista in Oklahoma's southwest region. The drive to the top is an gallop over a hill and disappear in clouds of dust? easy one, the view of the surroundingcountrysidespectacular.From Maybe your sense of adventure is best stirred by there, visitors can gaze down upon the waters of Lake Lawtonka walking in the footsteps of one of America's most and Lake Ellsworth, both nestled at the foot of the mountain. notorious gangsters?If either scenario sounds ap- Deeper into the rugged prairie and craggy mountainsof the refuge, pealing, then your journey begins at the intersection of Interstate followthe signs to thevisitor's center,which gives a detailedhistory 44 and StateHighway 49, the doorstep to theWichita Mountains of the 650-million-year-old mountain range and its wildlife. Wildlife Refuge. No trip into the refuge is complete without a foray to the for- Scenic S.H. 49 gentlyweaves through the 60,000-acre, federally mer gold boomtown of Meers on State Highway 115. Meers was operated wildlife preserve where buffalo, longhorn, and elk still named after prospector Andrew J. Meers, a dreamer convinced live freely. But before entering the refuge, make a detour into the there was gold in the area. Nowadays the only gold in Meers is the historiccobblestonevillage of Medicine Parkjust off S.H. 49. The scrumptious Meersburger, a longhorn-patty burger so big cooks community offers not only romantic ambiance but several gift cut it into four pie-size slices for easy eating. boutiques, a lighted walking trail around Bath Lake, and diverse The now-famous burger is the house specialty at the Meers cuisine at the Riverside Cafe (which overlooks the sleepywaters of Store and Restaurant, a rickety building where canning jars full Medicine Creek). Before leaving town, don't forget to have locals of drinks might slide off the table of an unsuspectingcity slicker. point out one of gangster Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd's favorite The old building-on the National Register of Historic Places hideouts, a cobblestonehouse across from the old music hall. since 1978-was moved to its current location against the side ofa Continue along S.H. 49 until mountain in 1902 during a "gold rush" that never materialized. you enter the refuge near the base of Mount Scott. At 2,464 feet, Ron/arkson is the Lawton bureau chieffor the Daily Oklahoman. He lives Mount Scott offers the highest in Rocky and is the author flamo Legacy (1997, Eakin Press). River, passing a beautill stretch MIAMI of cliff-hugging road. Signs point to places with names like Goats I TO GORE Q Galen Culver ~lkandN~Head Hollow. In the summer, nearly a quarter-million 'T'S A RARE OKLAHOMA ROAD THAT GOES people will float this section of the lorth, south, east, and west, but that's exactly Illinois River. When the weather where State Highway 10 will take you on a 120- turns cold and the river is quiet, you nile journey between Miami and Gore. A few old can follow the lanterns of fishermen . -. . . Istone farmhouses dot the flat prairie as you pick spearing suckerfish at night. up speed, heading east &om Miami. After a sharp turn south a few Near Tdequah, the river 2155 miles out of town, the prairie meets stands of oak and hickory around and the highway zags. The new Wyandotte, concealing where the Spring River begins to deepen into four-lane surface combines S.H. 10 the headwaters of Grand Lake. with U.S. 62, betweenTdequah Pass through the resort town of Grove, and you'll find treasures and Fort Gibson. Now you're heading toward tribal headquarters worth seeking. You can pass a peacefid hour exploring Lendonwood and Tsa-La-Gi, a Cherokee living history site. The only remaining Gardens on Thirteenth Street in Grove. Also onThirteenth is Har-Ber antebellum plantation in Oklahoma, the George M. Murrell home, Village, named after Harvey and Bernice Jones. The miniature town is a couple of miles off S.H. 10 in Park City. full of antiques and odd collectibles is opened seasonally between Every great road needs a great vista, and the sweet spot on S.H. 10 March 1and November 15. is about seven miles south of Fort Gibson in the heart of the Cookson If you're lucky enough to travel through when the fill colors are Hills. Slow down as you crest the hill, which affords a great view of brightest, don't miss a chance to take a tour of Grand Lake on the the wide Arkansas River and the Fort Gibson Valley. Cherokee @en. You may even spot migrating pelicans heading south Pushing onward through the town of Gore, S.H. 10 makes one last, in the fall. straight lunge toward the Illinois River. You'll find a replica of the Back behind the wheel, the journey continues as S.H. 10 meanders oldest capital in Oklahoma,Tahlonteeskee, two miles east of Gore. It's and bends. It's time to slow down Ad see the sun dapple through the first seat of government for the Western Cherokees who traveled trees in the foothills of the Boston Mountains. Just south of Kansas, here before the Trail of Tears. Oklahoma, S.H. 10 begins to follow the clear waters of the Illinois S.H. 10 and our trip ends just south of here. The meandering two-lane road that runs along the backbone of eastern Oklahoma, Just off the journey from Miami to Gore is recreational Lake Tenkill- through its wooded heart, runs through our history, too. er. Nestled in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains, the 13,000 acres of water are the perfect complement to the nearby Illinois River. Gakn Culuer is a wporter andphotographer$r KFOR- TVin Oklahoma Cig

TRAVEL 1 43 By Damon Gardenhire Illustration by Bruce Eagle

He gathered some of them up, delicate thin workman's hands. He wrote on on the beach, during a lull in the fighting on black sand called Iwo Jima. Because they were flare parachutes lasted decades. kitchen table. He leaned fertile flowers of a frightened farm boy's "Out on the ships, we were standing of the planes as they soared t falling like hail out of the sky/We knew in those m some of us were going to die." Grandpa didn't die, thou homes, built a busin

The garden put food on the table for many German Catholics, his family raised their own survival's sake-even as the windborne dusr across the land. Wit boy, grew stronger, until h ing on that volcanic soil in a distant ocean. Now he is a laconic man with a trim build and a of gray hair. He is eightyyears old, though it from his quick and ceaselessmovement. He wiry, long arms as he walks, and he walks fast on bent, lanky legs. Nicks from splintersand nails have scarred his hands. Roughened as they &e, they still coax growth from the clay soil and craft raw lumber into a house. In the early hours of winter mornings or in the noonday summer sun, his brown hands still push a handsaw or tend the soil. They work as they always have, whether picking cotton or digging a foxhole. The smell of fresh sawdust and pinesap lingers around him. He talks with clicks and

OKLAHOMATODAY .MARCH/APRIL 2003 44 I &L&:u..,,=. ., twangs in his voice, the music of a Great Plains-German rumble. He fills his home and land with a constant, chaotic whistling song that iust might be a homemade hvmn to creation. - with oil, he plays a harmonica; and he watches old~ohn Wayne films. Sometimes he teaches children to sing "the rain song" he LB , lekned in Japan. h 1;. .' Fenced by barbed wire, my grandpa's red-dirt garden bursts dur- p. .'. * ae: the erowine season with a ~rofusionof Okie produce: okra.

$,trees, cottonwoods, and cedars skirt the property. A silver- bnsags on one side of the plot. Grandpa keeps potatoes 2 murky darkness. A few cattle chew their cud, snort, and hides within earshot of his melodic whistling.

HILDHOOD SUMMERS ROAMING THESE FIVE became a widow when I was two, and Grandpa &an a grandfather. My mother once painted him driv- his close-cropped hair blowing in the wind. In him as he pilots us through an afternoon. evenings, Grandpa and I weaved our way ture to the garden, where we brushed caked dirt of new cantaloupes for next mornings breakfast. ts loose &om the earth's grip. Or plucked heavy es could snatch them. ared the easy pleasures of the garden's earth. sweated out my rebellion on the concrete slabs of d did my best to learn the craft of car- In the evenings after work, Grandma would urgers, along with big slabs of tomatoes, cold upe, fried okra, and corn on the coball from the

ectedly in her sleep last September. As the days firmedhis first autumn garden without her. itthere. I took mvinfant daughter to the gard*n'c

@ pecan trees. wrghter cast her wide eyes around her, looking at the profu- kw life that surrounded us. I watched her and thought of seasons in Grandpa's garden. "DOESTHE WIND BLOW TMls "*}Ai~yALL THE TIME?' ENVIRONMENT I THAT'SWHEN A LARGE CHUNK 0 F T H E C 0 N ' A 1 Wind, however, has always been a mixed blessing for l abasic southerly flow in our part of the world." Oklahomans. The same wind that brought precious mois- , Arndt says the strong southerly breezes in Oklahoma ture could also wither crops and spirits, and our ambivalence in the spring and summer months are created by the toward it springs from the historic uncertainties of trying to combination of high pressure to our east or southeast and eke out a living in a place where the wind plays a major part in 7 low pressure to our west or northwest. determining sweet success or devastating failure. On the Plains, "On many occasions, the Rockies set up what's called a lee one usually follows the other. The result of this dichotomy is a trough, which lowers the pressure west of us, and that's what deep-rooted pathos unique to Oklahoma, a combination of defi- is usually responsible for our southerly springtime and summer ance, defeat, fatalism, humor, and pride. winds. In the winter we just get cold air outbreaks that blast through from the north," says Arndt. HAT RELATIONSHIP MANIFESTS ITSELF IN A VAN That unique geographical placement is also responsible for Tof ways, from the dark, brooding Dust Bowl image Oklahoma's reputation for winds of a more violent nature. The Dorothea Lange and Arthur Rothstein and Steinbeck's Joa Southern Plains lead the world in the occurrence of tornadic thun- the cornpone imagery of the musical Okhhoma!and the fict derstorms, and having a big, warm body of water to our so~~theast Hollywood magic of Twister. Oklahoma, it seems, has al and the Rocky Mountains to our west sets it up. been buffeted by the winds of clichC "Imagine where we are on a map, with the Rocky Mountains to But even clicht is rooted in some kernel of truth, our west and the Gulf to our ~outheast,"says bdt."Up higher in the fact is that Oklahoma's wind-whipped weather has b the atmosphere where the jet stream is, we typically have westerly a focal point for virtually every culture to occupy or expl or southwesterly winds most of the year. Frequently in the spring the region. Some Native American tribes drew their very identities and summer, we get a low pressure effect on the southern Plains, from the wind. Members of the Kaw Nation describe themselves and that sets up a shear between the higher-level westerly winds as "People of the South Wind." Most other Plains tribes had wind and the southerly surface winds. The moisture being brought up legends in one form or another: One Kiowa tribal legend tells how from the Gulf adds to the mix, and the result is an environment the Kiowas created the first tornado by stuffing a buffalo with grass that supports severe weather." until it eventually grew into a raging twister. While the native Plains tribes seamlessly incorporated wind into Most of us don't have a firm grasp of why the wind blows; we their culture, early European explorers, coming from a more sedate, just know it does. It boils down to location. The reasons for our benevolent climate, seemed unprepared for the savage spectacle of ever-present wind lie rooted in geographic features found hun- prairie weather. In 1541,when the gold-hungry Spanish conquista- dreds, even thousands, of miles from our borders. dor Francisco Vasquez de Coronado was making the first organized In essence, Oklahoma is the stage on which two diametrically exploration of what would eventually become Texas, Oklahoma, opposed dancers shadow one another's movements in a sometimes and Kansas, his column got caught in a thunderstorm. One of graceful, sometimes violent ballet of one-upsmanship. Coronado's men, Pedro de Castaneda, described it this way: "...a "It's basically a function of where we are on the continent and tempest came up one afternoon with a very high wind & hail, & the geographic structure ofwhere the mountains and oceans are," in a very short space of time a great quantity of hailstones, as big says Derek Arndt, a climatologist with the Oklahoma Climatologi- as bowls, or bigger, fell as thick as raindrops, so that in places they cal Survey in Norman. "Wind speed is dictated by how strong those covered the ground two or three spans or more deep." pressure gradients are. We traditionally have a large high pressure Apparently the Plains weather made more of an impression area in the southern Atlantic off the coast of Florida that sets up upon the Spaniards than the land itself, for although- Spain- did claim what would later become Oklahoma, with no gold, silver, or large indigenous populations, it never made any real attempt to develop the area. The only gold Coronado's expedition found was the vast sea of undulating prairie grass itself, and its worth wouldn't be realized for several centuries. When Americans began exploring the region in the early 1800s, they too were taken by the weather and felt compelled to describe it. Washington Irving's 1835 classic A Tour on the Prairies documented the famous author's first experience with Oklahoma weather. "...We were overtaken by a violent thunder-gust ...some of the horses were so frightened as to be almost unmanageable, and our scattered cavalcade looked like a tempest-tossed fleet, driven hither and thither, at the mercy of wind and wave." Apparently Irving regained his composure, for a short time later lntcntional planting of crops or trees around open fields, known as shelterbelts, left, break up the wind flow and prevent crop erosion. The first American sheherbelt was planted near Mangurn in 1935.

OKLAHOMATODAY MARCH/APRIL 2003 48 i Wind combinedwith open plainsand drwghrcreated the disac they are dry and windy. Rainfall west of the One Hundredth Me- hour Dusf Bowl. Here, circa 1935, a Boise City ranch is engutfed in ridian generally averages twenty inches per year or less. There are a weepof top mil. relatively few rivers and fewer natural lakes. And though it doesn't he fairly gushed at the spectacle he had just endured. seem so now, presettlement Oklahoma was-and in some areas 'X thunder-storm on the prairie, as upon the ocean, derives remains-a spare, unforgiving land where the bones of landscape grandeur and sublimity fiom the wild and boundless waste over lie bleached and exposed. which it rages and bellows." If you wanted to make a home on the Plains in the nineteenth Irving's flowery prose aside, most early explorers weren't suf- century, your options were dictated by the availability-or ficiently moved by Oklahoma's weather to recommend it as an lack--of water. Modern Oklahomans may scoff at the notion of accommodating place for settlement. In fact, most early explorers Oklahoma being a desert, but in 1820 it was, in terms of settle- saw Oklahoma as a barren, windswept chunk of land situated be- ment, just that. tween here and there, devoid ofvalue, a pre-jet age version of flyover It would take several more decades and the introduction of a counuy. "...Unfit for cultivation and of course uninhabitable by a device born of the wind and the Industrial Revolution to prove people depending upon agriculture," proclaimed Major Stephen H. Long's assessment wrong. Long, whose 1820 exploration of western and central Oklahoma comprised the first major American exploration of the area. INDMILLSAREN'T A RECENT INVENTION. THEYlrE Although Long somewhat exaggerated the harshness of Okla- wb een around, in one form or another, for centuries. But it homa's climate when he dubbed it the "Great American Desert," was the marriage of cheap, mass-produced, steel-bladed windmills he wasn't off by much, at least by the temperate standards of the in the middle of the nineteenth century to the ever-present prairie eastern part of the continent. The salient fact of the Plains is that winds that finally allowed early settlers to break fiee from the nar-

ENVIRONMENT 49 row development corridors of the region's rivers. states, learned to live with wind, but unfortunately they failed to Here, finally, was a way to use the wind to tap learn from the wind. The result was one of the greatest ecological into the vast water reserves hidden deep under the disasters the world has ever known. arid prairie soil. Areas once deemed too dry for settlement now had a cheap, reliable, and abundant sour* <,* IND AND DROUGHT DO NOT HAVE A of water. So great was the windmill's contribution that Wcausal relationship but one of exacerbation. Wind the noted historian Walter Prescott Webb argued that it is the gasoline that fans the flame of drought. On the was one of the three most important tools for the develop- vast sweep of the Plains, wind and drought have ment of the West, the other two being the six-shooter and been playing out these roles for eons, and dimatolo- barbed wire. gists are just now starting to grasp the significance of It is hard to understate how completely the windmill became an drought in the natural cycle of the nation's grasslands. integral part of Plains life. By the end of the nineteenth century, Recent findings suggest that historically, the Plains have gone millions of small windmills had sprung up, and most estimates through extended periods of extreme drought and that drought place the total number of windmills installed on the Great Plains is a regularly occurring phenomenon. It's not a matter of if the at more than six million. Plains have a tendency to dry up, scientists say, it is a matter of Certainly the windmill's importance wasn't lost on the settlers who when and how severely. depended on it. Early pioneer life is full of references to windmills. Oklahoma farmers in 1914 did not have the luxury of modern "On the Plains," goes one saying, "the wind draws the water and the science to pide their land-use practices. All they knew was that, cows cut the wood," referring to the pioneer necessity of using dried thanks to the outbreak of World War I, wheat prices had soared to cow chips in place offirewood. "No woman should live in this country unheard-of levels, and advances in farm machinery were allowing who cannot dimb a windmill tower or shoot a gun,"says another. them to plow more and faster than they ever had before. For some early Oklahoma pioneers, the ceaseless wind was a source Some historians have dubbed what followed "the Great Plow- of frustration, folk humor, and embellishment. In 1893, one over- Up." According to historian Donald Worster, more than eleven

HERE~FINALL~,WAS A WAY TO USE T E. I N D exuberant editor at the Watonga Republican wrote, "...light zephyrs million acres of native grass were turned under between 1914 and like the airy undulations of sweet softness that fan the sylvan bowers 1919 in Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, and Texas. The of fairyland, gently- but voluptuously filled the earth." 1920s saw unusually wet years, unusually high- wheat harvests, and However, the gentleness of those "light zephyrs" was apparently even more conversion of grassland to wheat. Worster estimates lost on Seigniora Russell Lame. Laune, an early resident of Wood- that by 1935, with the rain gone and the nation in the fifth year ward, summed up her feelings on Oklahoma wind quite succinctly of a widespread drought, more than thirty-three million acres of with the title of her 1956autobiography, Sand in My Eyes. ground lay exposed. ". .. With my head bent against the wind Ipushed the baby-laden That's when the wind started blowing and a large chunk of the buggy down the weed-grown path that led to town ...streaked with continent took Bight. dust andpantingftom weariness, I wouldstop in Dean and Launej Seventy years later, the national consciousness has largely healed, ofice to get my breath before making the rounds of the stores-pin but if there is one group that still feels the sting of blowing dust, it up my straggLing hair, pick the beggar j Lice, sandburs, and sticky is Oklahomans. Rightly or wrongly, the specter of the Dust Bowl leaves fiom my skirt, and straighten- out my windblown babies." and the cultural identity with which Oklahomans were seared as Demonstrating- the stoicism inherent in prairie women, Laune mused on the travails of early Oklahoma shopping. "I don't know af how on earth we held up our long skirts, pushed a baby buggy, ; managed a lace parasol, and buffeted the wind, all at the same 8 time. But we did, because we had to." Wind also is predominant in the book's illustrations, penned by Lame's son, the noted Oklahoma artist Paul Laune. Virtually all of Laune's illustrations made a point of portraying the wind tugging at hats, ties, trees, clothing. It is a p&verfd evocation of how wind permeated every facet of pioneer life. In those early years, Oklahomans, like those in other Plains

Wind has played a long and important role in human history. EfFarts to harness wind date back 5,000 years to Egypt, where boats first used sails to travel.The first windmill may have been built as early as 2000 B.C. in ancient Babylon.

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a result of it continue to resonate today. That's why many Okla- newly planted shelterbeltsto reduce the wind's velocity and keep it homans still view Steinbeckwith so much antipathy and Rodgers from picking up dust. & Hammerstein with so much adulation. In addition to the hands-on practices, Bidwell says there was, But the real lessons to be taken from those blowingwinds aren't and continues to be, a push to permanently return highly erodible academic arguments over whether the word "Okie" should be cropland to grass. viewed as pejorative or compliment, but the conservation ethos "Since the Thirties, there's been a pile of money spent on which came out of the Dust Bowl's aftermath. programs to get those soils taken out of production and into "The real conservation movement in the United States,in terms permanent vegetation." of institutionalizingconservation practices, especially in regard to wind erosion, was born in the 1930s, and the Dust Bowl had quite RASS. MORETHANANYTHING,THECHOKING STORMS a lot to do with that," says Oklahoma StateUniversity agriculture Gof the Dust Bowl highlighted its importance and primacy in professor Dr. Terry Bidwell. "Therewere a number of agencies, no- the Great Plains ecosystem. The extensive root systems of prairie tably the soil conservation service, formed to address erosion." grasses act as billions of tiny anchors. Lose it, and you lose the soil. Bidwell, a state extension specialist and rangeland ecology re- Shelterbeltsand strip-cropping helped, and in fact the first govern- searcher, says a combination of factors external to drought were ment shelterbelt in the nation was planted near Mangum in 1935, to blame for the conditions of the 1930s. but shelterbeltsalone could not hope to quell the blowing wind. "One of the main reasons was the kind of farm equipment In extremely hard-hit areas, erosion was so severe that revegeta- available at the time," Bidwell says. "Back then, it simply wasn't tion was the only hope, so in 1934 the federal government began possible to farm in such a way that it wouldn't blow. The tech- purchasingsome of the most heavilyeroded hmland and reseeding nology didn't exist." it to grass. By 1947, when the program ended, more than eleven In addition to technological shortcomings, Bidwell says there million acres had reverted to federal ownership.Thosebroken parcels was a general lack of knowledge on how to deal with wind. of land were eventually designated as national grasslands. "The real problem back then was the fact that there real In a very real sense, much of Oklahoma's current public lands wasn't an understanding of why you shouldn't be farm- wind, because two of those grasslands ing highly erodible lands. Now we have soil surveys and as are in Oklahoma: Black Kettle in Roger Mills County the technology to determine exactly where those highly and Rita Blanca in Cimarron County. Combined, they erodible soils are." represent more than 46,000 acres of formerly destroyed It is not an exaggeration to say thatwind,and thelessons a living monument to folly and (at least on public from it, radically transformed the post-Dust Bowl Oklahom landscape. Where before there had been ruler-straight Despite all the innovative practices to arise from t3 fields worked to a fine powder, there were now con- the Dust Bowl, no one was sure rhey would actually $ toured and terraced fields to stop water erosion and work. Oklahomans didn't have to wait very long to 4 w 52 1 OKLAHOMATODAY MARCH/APRIL 2003 1 "Wind power is the coming thing," says Tim Hughes, director of the Oklahoma Wind Power Initiative, a joint project of the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University. "Our model is conservative, but we think Oklahoma has a potential of I almost 14,000 megawatts ofwind-generatedpower. That's almost as much electrical generation as the state already has." Wind energyworks on the same basic principle as the windmill, albeit on a much larger scale, the only differencethat the turbines produce electricity rather than pump water. "People like this idea, because there's really no downside to it," says Hughes. "It brings economic development to communities and produces no pollution." Hughes says Oklahoma ranks eighth nationally in terms of wind energy potential. Texas, where there are already numerous I active wind farm projects, ranks second. But Hughes says when you factor in the difference in landmass between the two states, Oklahoma has roughly twice the energy potential. "Ten years ago, wind wasn't economicallyfeasiblebecause natural gas was so cheap," Hughes says. "But the price of gas has risen, 9' and that's going to continue. Wind is getting competitive, and E the future cost ofwind-!generated electricitywill actually decrease $ with technological advances." To see the future of Oklahoma wind power, Hughes says, one I find out. Drought came roaring back in the 1950s' and while it needs to look at Texas now. 1 was severe enough for farmers to dub the period "the Filthy Fif- "In the last three years, Texas has put in almost one thousand ties," there wasn't a total repeat of the black blizzards so common megawatts of wind power," says Hughes. "That's almost a billion in the Thirties. dollars of development." "The drought we had in the Fifties in Oklahoma and on the The two most likely sites for the state's first wind farms are in southern Great Plains was in many ways worse than the one in the northern Woodward County and the Slick Hills region north of I Thirties,"says Bidwell. "But YOU don't hear anyonetalk about that the Wichita Mountains in southwest Oklahoma. Florida Power because we didn't have significantamounts ofwind erosion due to & Light Energy is planning a fifty-megawatt farm north of Fort tillage practices implemented after the Dust Bowl." Supply, and Houston-based Zilkha Renewable Energy has pros- The environmentalconsequencesof the Dust Bowl were obvi- pects for developing hundreds of megawatt farms in the Slick ous, but the economic consequences just as devastating. The Dust Hills region. Bowl was stark proof that in the 1930s,Oklahoma's economywas Wind energy potential is judged on a scale of one to five, with at the mercy of its environment. But in the twenty-first century, five considered an excellent rating. While western Oklahoma- that same windy environment may actually reap an economic with its mix of Class4 and 5 winds-is the current focus of energy windfall for the state's economy. producers, Hughes says in the future, the rest of the state could become a wind-producing powerhouse. "If Class 3 areas eventuallybecome profitable, and that's where the technology is going, over half of Oklahoma could see wind energy projects," he says. If Oklahomadoes indeed see asecond energy boom, it will almost certainly be powered by wind. Long after the oil and gas has given out, the Oklahoma wind will still be blowing, and in that ceaseless and inexorable power lies the intriguing future of our state. However, should Oklahoma somedaybecome the SaudiArabia of wind energy, it will come as no surprise to Oklahomans. Like a common thread running through our collective history, that constant breeze binds us to our past and propels us to our future. The future of wind power in Oklahoma is predicatedon electricity- It is simply a part of who we are. rn generatingwind farms, above. Wind turbines with two or three thin blades rotateat high speeds to create electricalpower plants. Approximately 28,000 windturbines operateworldwide, from plants Chad Lovefiequently writes about the environmentfor Oklahoma in Southern Californiadeserts to the shores of the Arabian Sea. Wind Today. He recently covered the sport offalcony in the November/ farms are expected to be up and runningin Oklahoma by July 2003. December 2002 issue.

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Return of the Native Slip on imaginary moc- BELOWTHE TIMELESSTRAVEL casins and follow the trail of historic Native Americans in Brick streets transport Guthrie Tahlequah. The old Cherokee travelers to the territorial days of 1889 National Capitol Building still During the ear'ypart the through avictorian city that treasures its has a distinct front vestibule, twentieth riches past. From the State Capital Publishing led to 'pulent Art Deco and and a trip across Keetoowah Museum to the eclectic interiors of the alongTu1sis brings visitors to the stately Scottish Rite Temple, Guthrie possesses downtown Cherokee Supreme Court. a wealth of easy-walking sites toasting Nearby is the still ominous- wical the ~~'3'offers 0, risk-taking predecessors andtelling lwo walking looking Cherokee National the tale of ow stare's beginnings. Tours aboveground and one be- Prison, erected in 1874. Two are self-guided, or visit the Guthrie low. For a change-of-pace, streets west on College Avenue Chamber of Commerce at 2 12 West trek through the four-b1ock is the Carnegie Library, and a Oklahoma for a tour brochure (4051282- north turn leads to Northeast- subterranean tunnel system ,947; gurhrieok.com). linking the Atlas Life Building, ern State University, where the Kennedy Building, 320 South Cherokee Nation built historic Boston Building, andAdam's Seminary Hall in 1899. For a Mark Hotel. Come up for air brochure and maps, call the Tahlequah Area Cham- ber of Commerce and Tourism Council (9181 marble, inlaid tile, and intricate craftsmanship. Call Downtown 456-3742; tahlequahok.com). Tulsa Unlimited (9181583-2617;tulsadowntown.org) for maps and information on both tours. A GUIDE TO ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS STATEWIDE

Main Street Apr 15-20, '89er Celebration. Apr BARTLESVILLE 19, '89er Parade. (405) 282-2589 QCCLAHOM~ATRUNPERSTQRM Community Center Adams Blvd 8 Cherokee Art Walk Mar 29, Downtown. (405)260-2345 Ave. Mar 8, Elena Baksht, Dimitri Berlinsky, and Batter Up: An 1889BaseballGame Apr 18, tN HAIKU Symphony Orchestra. Mar 13, Barry Manilow's Cottonwood Flats. (405) 282-1889 Copacabana. Apr 1 1, Swingerhead Concert. Apr 13, Young Artist Family Concert. Apr 26- Grayblack thunderheads 27, Tarzan. (918) 336-2787 KINGFISHER- --- . - Price Tower Arts Center 5 10 S Dewey. Mar Chisholm Trail Museum 605 Zellers Ave. Mar towering high in the west 1-9, BuildingMotion: The Architecture of Zaha 7, Victorian Dance Lessons. Mar 29, Apr 26, hide t,he setting sun Hadid. Mar 7, Architecture Film Night. (918) Beaded FlowersWorkshop. Apr 12, Living His- 336-4949 tory on the Chisholm Trail. (405) 375-5176 Bite of HistoryMar 12, Apr 9, BartlesvilleArea Governor Seay Inaugural Ball Mar 15, History Museum. (918) 338-4290 Memorial Hall. (405) 375-5176 The warm spring wind dies to suffocating stillness CHECOTAH that shrouds the dry earth Honey Springs Battlefield 6 Miles NE of Cameron UniversityTheatre 2800 W Gore Checotah. Mar 15-16, Civil War Encamp- Blvd. Mar 25, Concert Band. Mar 29, Keiko ment & Candlelight TO&. Apr 12, Civil ~br Abe Marimbist Concert. Apr 8, Percussion Whirling wisps of dust Life. (918)473-5572 Ensemble Concert. (580)58 1-2478 Hobo Dinner & Pie Auction Apr 12, Katy Twelve Miles of Hell Bicycle Ride Mar 1-2, out of nowhere like magic Depot. (918) 473-5872 Lake Elmer Thomas Recreation Area. (580) 442-5541 dance across the fields ItalianOpem with Ma& Nuccio Apr 5, McMo EDMOND hon Memorial Auditorium. (580)536-2229 Casey ~arltonPhotographic Exhibit Mar Denim & Dancing Apr 12, Great Plains Coliseum Birds cease to iwifer 1-29, HistoricalSociety. (405)340-0078 Annex. (580) 357-1483 Edmond HighlandGamer Mar 22-23, Hafer Prince of Peace Easter Pageant Apr 12,19, hunting kts~mch Iw to ground Park. (405)769-9621 Holy City of the Wichitas. (580)4293361 fearing what's to came Swing1 Apr 5, Mitchell Theatre, University of St. Andrew Trio Apr 27, PercussiveArts Society Central Oklahoma. (405)974-3375 Museum. (580) 353-1455 The awesome silence ELK ClTY MIDWEST ClTY broken us the screaming wind Holiday Inn 108 Meadowridge. Mar 2 1-22, Rose State Colleae" 6420 SE 15th St. AD^ 5. BluegrassJam. Apr 10-12, Oklahoma State Antique Appraisals. Apr 11, John Kay &'st=& sweeps across the plain Fiddlers Convention. (580) 225-6637 penwolf Concert. Apr 24-26, Six Degrees of 19thAnnual Southwest Farm & Home Expo Separation. (405) 733-7488 Apr 5-6, Civic Center. (580)225-0207 The darkening sky MUSKOGEE------is pierced by lightning flashes ENID Five Civilized Tribes Museum 1019 Honor Museum of the Cherokee Strip 507 S 4th Heights Dr. Mar 1-31, Student Art Show. Apr as thunder booms out St. Apr 1-21, Everything I Say Here Is Straight 5-30, Art Under the Oaks lndian Art Market. and True: lndian Ledger Drawings. Apr 16, (918) 683-1701 Lecture on lndian Ledger Drawings: Don De- Junior Regional Livestock Show Mar 5-8, Hailstones scourge the trees Win. (580)237-1907 Fairgrounds. (918) 687-7584 Symphony Center 301 W Broadway. Mar Three Forks History: A Caravan Tour Mar bowing in fearsome homage 8-9, Russian Splendor. Apr 5-6, The Roaring 29, Three Rivers Museum. (918) 686-6624 to nature's power Twenties. (580) 237-9646 BBQ & Chili Cookoff Apr 4-5, Phoenix Plaza. Corvettes of Enid Expo Apr 4-6, Fairgrounds (918) 682-7788 Coliseum. (580) 237-0238 Okie Whithers Annual Woodcarving Show Railroad Appreciation Day Apr 26,702 N Apr 4-5, Arrowhead Mall. (918) 683-1573 Then all is quiet- Washington. (580) 233-3051 Spring Arts, Craft & Gii Show Apr 5, Civic leaving streams of healing rain Tri-State Music FestivalApr 30-May 3, City- Center. (918) 682-2422 wide. (580) 237-4964 Azalea Festival Apr 5-20, Honor Heights Park. for the hungry earth (918) 684-6302 Firefighter'sEaster Egg Hunt Apr 12, Spauld- --George England ing Park. (918) 684-6351 Lazy E Arena 9600 Lazy E Drive. Mar 7-9, Wran- Historic Home Tour Apr 12, Founders' Place Retiredfrom Tinker Air Form Base, George gler Timed Event Championshipof the World. Mar Neighborhood. (918) 682-0312 England lives with his wife in Midwwt Cily. 26-29, Spring Barrel Futurity. Apr 25-26, PRCA Jake's Women Apr 25-May 3, Muskogee Little Rodeo & Concerts. (405)282-7433 Theatre. (918) 683-7660

58 1 OKLAHOMATODAY MARCH/APRIL 2003 33rd Annual Festival of Spirituals Apr 13, Oklahoma Watercolor Association MixedMedia NORMAN First Presbyterian Church. (405)364-8962 & Collage. Apr 3-6, OCU Theatre Presents The Cleveland County Fairgrounds 6 15 E Rob- '89ers Day Parade, Car Show, and Fes- Diaries of Adam & Eve. (405)521-5230 inson. Mar 1, Garage Sale. Mar 22, Spring tival Apr 26 Downtown & Andrews Park. Omniplex 2100 NE 52nd St. Mar 1-20, Winter Benefit Powwow. Mar 29, Creative Craft (405) 701-2061 Nights. Mar I-Apr 30, Shackleton's Antarctic Festival. (405) 360-4721 Adventure. Mar 1-Apr 30, Titanic: The Artifact Jacobson House 609 Chautauqua Ave. Mar Exhibit. Mar 7-Apr 30, Coral Reef Adventure. 1, Native American Basket Weavers. Mar 1, OKLAHOMACITY Apr 22, Earth Day. Apr 25, World's Largest Math Oklahoma Flute Society. (405) 3661667 Blue Door 2805 N McKinlev Ave. Mar 1. Eric Event. (405)602-6664 Lake Thunderbird State Park South Side at Taylor. Mar 11, Kevin ~ekhand the ~bnes. St. Luke'sUnitedMethodistChurch 222 NW Clear Bay. Mar 22, 29, Dutch Oven Cooking. Mar 21, Corb Lund Band. (405) 524-0738 15th St. Mar 20, David Broder: Keeping on Top Apr 19, Easter Egg Hunt. (405) 321-4633 Carpenter Square Theater 400 W California. of the News. Apr 10, Frank Cappiello: View Reaves Park 201 W Gray. Apr 4-6, Medieval Mar 1-15, Side Man. Mar 28Apr 19, A Hotel from Wall Street. (405)524-0577 Fair, (405)288-2536.Apr 13, Kids for Kindness on Marvin Gardens. (405)232-6500 State Fair Park 1-44 & NW 10th St. Mar 6-8, Festival, (405) 366-7229 City Arts Center 3000 General Pershing Blvd. 13-15, Oklahoma State Basketball Champion- Rupel J. Jones Theatre 563 Elm Ave. Mar 6-9, Mar 1-9, Oklahoma Children's Theatre Presents ships. Mar 6-9, Oklahoma City Int'l Auto Show. Modern RepertorySpring Dance Festival. Apr 24- And Then They Came for Me: Remembering the Mar 7-Apr 25, State Fair Speedway Racing. Mar 27, The Philadelphia Story. (405)3254101 World of Anne Frank, (405)95 1-001 1. Mar 17- 18-24, Oklahoma Youth Livestock Expo. Mar Sam NobleOklahoma Museum of Natu- 21, Spring Break Camp, (405)951-0000 27-30, Shrine Circus. Mar 28-30, Oklahoma ral History 2401 Chautauqua Ave. Mar Civic Center Music Hall 201 N Walker Ave. Farm Show. Apr 2-6, Oklahoma Quarter Horse 1-Apr 20, These Rare Lands. Mar 15-Apr Mar 28-29, Philharmonic Presents Jennifer Spring Show. Apr 5, Oklahoma's Largest Ga- 30, Moving the Fire: The Removal of Indian Holliday. Apr 1-6, Rodgers and Hammerstein's rage Sale. Apr 9-13, Centennial Horse Show. Nations to Oklahoma. Mar 3 1-Apr 30, OU Cinderella. Apr 5, Jeremy Stewart: Tenor. Apr (405)948-6704 Native American Faculty, Staff, Student & 10-27, The Miracle Worker. Apr 12, Philhar- Othello Mar 5-9, Stage Center. (405)270-4801 Alumni Art Show. (405) 325-4712 monic Presents Bursting with Rhythmic Energy. NCAA Division IMen's Basketball Playoffs Hippies & Harleys Mar 29, Floyds Barn. (405) 842-5387. Mar 20, 22, Ford Center. (405) 236-5000 (405) 948-2137 Oklahoma City Community CollegeTheatre 15th Anniversary of the Crystal Bridge Cabaret Apr 3-6, 10-13, 16-19, Weitzenhoffer 7777 S May. Mar 1 1, Simbirsk Trio. Apr 15, Mar 25, Myriad Botanical Gardens. (405) Theater. (405) 325-410 1 Brad Richter. (405) 682-7579 297-3995 89th Annual OU School of Art Student's Oklahoma City University 2501 N Blackwelder. Odyssey Astronomy Club Public Star Party Exhibition Apr 3-27, Fred JonesJr. Museum Mar 1-2, OCU Theatre Presents Friendship Be- Apr 4-5, Lake Stanley Draper Soccer Fields. of Art. (405) 325-3272 trayed. Mar 1-14, Norick Art Center Presents (405) 899-4016

Price Tower Arts Center Woolaroc Museum and rice Tower Hotel Frank Wildlife Preserve Woolaroc loyd Wright's only skyscraper, considered by Wright himself be an as the ranch retreat of oilman Frank Phillips, founder of t be one of his greatest works. Tour the tower, visit the exhibi- PhiB lips Petroleum Company. Today, this 3,600-acre western tions of the Price Tower Arts Center, shop in the exquisitely showplace will take you on a journe through the rich history stocked museum store, dine in the hip 16th floor terrace of the American West as you enjoy tZe remarkable Woolaroc i---b-.-rant and bar, and stay in the sty':-L D-:-? Tower U-Ael. Muset- breath-takingviews, and freely roaming wildlife.

Log on or cull thyto recefveyour FREl7 BartIesvfUeVisitor'sCuklefeaturing botb of tbese unique getaways andpacked wftl~details about all hthere to see and clo in BartksviUe. Bartlesville Area Convention and Visitors Bureau 201 SW Keeler PO Box 2366 Bartlesville, OK 74005 918-336-8708 Redbud Classic Apr 5-6, Waterford Complex. (405) 842-8295 WEATHERFORD Nat'l Zoo & Aquarium Month Apr 12-13, Fine Arts Center 100 Campus Dr. Mar 4, The Oklahoma City Zoo. (405) 425-0298 Comedy of Errors. Apr 13, St. Louis Brass Farm Bureau Softball Challenge Apr 14-15, Quintet. (580) 774-3063 ASA Softball Hall of Fame. (405) 236-5000 SWOSU NlRA Rodeo Apr 10-12, Rader Park. Festival of the Arh Apr 22-27, Festival Plaza. (580) 774-3068 (405) 270-4848 Forces of Nature Dance Company Apr 26, Rose State Performing Arts Theater. WOODWARD MANGUM Rattlesnake Derby & Flea Market, Apr (405)524-3800 Plains Indians & Pioneer Museum 2009 Wil- 25-27, Downtown Square. (580) 782-2434 liams Ave. Mar 5-27, Paul Laune Memorial High MARSHALL Prairie City Days, Apr 1 1-1 2, Down- School Fine Arts Competition. Apr 4-5, Painting town. (580) 935681 1 PAWNEE Workshop. Apr 8-30, George Kountoupis Exhibi- MCALESTER Home& Garden Show, Mar 7-8, Expo Pawnee Bill Ranch 1 141 Pawnee Bill Rd. Mar tion. (580) 256-6136 Center. (918) 423-2550 22, Flint Knapping Seminar. Apr 15, Victorian Hat Ag Expo Apr 46, Fairgrounds. (580) 256-4101 MCALESTER Palm Sunday Program, Apr 13, Scottish Making Workshop. (9 1 8) 762-25 13 Rite Masonic Center. (918) 4236360 Spring & Folk Fest Apr 20, Courthouse Square. OCTAVlA Equestrian Trail Ride, Apr 17-19, Tickled (918) 762-2493 OUT & ABOUT Pink Ranch. (580) 244-3729 APACHE Rattlesnake Festival, Apr 18-20, Downtown. OKEMAH Antique Tractor Show, Apr 24-26, 100 (580)588-2880 Broadway. (91 8) 623-2440 SHAWNEE ARDMORE Easter at the Lake, Apr 19-20, Lake PARK HILL Cherokee Cruisin' Classics Car Show, NJCAA Region II Basketball Tournament Mar Murray Resort. (580) 2236600 Apr 12, Cherokee Landing State Park. (91 8) 6-9, OBU Noble Complex. (405) 275-9780 ATOKA Atoka Motor Sport Sand Drags, Mar 8, Apr 458-9090 Historical Society Quilt Show Mar 1 1-30, 12, Highway 3 East. (580) 889-7202 PONCA CITY The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Mar 27- Santa Fe Depot Museum. (405) 275-8412 BEAVER Cimorron Territory Celebration, Apr 12-19, 30, Poncan Theatre. (580) 765-5360 Gardening with the Experts Mar 15, Gordon Citywide. (580) 6254726 SAND SPRINGS Herbal AfFair & Festival, Apr 26, Cooper Technology Center. (405) 273-6092 BERNICE Indian Hills Crappie Tournament, Apr 19, Downtown. (918) 246-256 1 Redbud Festival Apr 12, Woodland Park. lndion Hills Resort. (918) 256-6954 SAPULPA Rainbow Trout Fishing Derby, Mar 29, (405) 273-6092 BLACKWEUTulips A Bloom Festival, Apr 5, Down- Preliy Water Lake. [918) 227-5 15 1 Garland Art & Craft Show Apr 12-13, Expo town. (580) 3634195 SAYRE Dyson Family Bluegrass Festival, Mar 21-23, Center. (405) 399-25 1 1 BRAGGS Greenleaf State Park 3 Miles S of Braggs Highway 152 West. (580) 928-5909 on Hwy 10. Mar 15, Fly-A-Kite Day. Apr 19, SPENCER Open House & Bake Sale, Apr 26,50th Easter Extravaganza. (918) 487-7125 St & Palmer. (405) 7714576 ST1LLWATE R BROKEN ARROW Proposals, Apr 4-5, 10-13, SULPHUR Weenie Dog Races, Apr 26, Downtown. Aauila Theatre OSU Carnous. Mar 2. The 1800 S Main. (918) 258-0077 (580) 6226246 importance of Being ~arnes;. Apr 23-27, The CHEROKEE Crystal Festival &Celebration of Birds, TAUHINA Spring Blossom Viewing, Mar 15Apr Mikado. (405) 744-6094 Apr 26-27, Citywide. (580) 596-3053 30, Scenic Drive Area. (918) 5673434 Blazathon BBQ Cookoff Apr 4-5, Elks Lodge. CHICKASHA Lions Collectible Show, Mar 29, Grady TONKAWA Redbud Jazz Festival, Apr 34, North- (405)7433300 County Fairgrounds. (405) 222-5421 ern Oklahoma College. (580) 6286366 Ronald Radford: Flamenco Guitarist Apr 5, DAVIS Spring Arts & Crafts Show, Apr 56, Turner WATONGA Trout Derby, Mar 1-2, Roman Nose OSU Student Union Theater. (405) 744-7509 Falls Park. (580) 369-2402 State Park. (580) 623-5452 DRUMRIGHT Here Lies Jeremy Troy, Apr 46, 10-13, Home & Garden Show Apr 56, Expo Center. WAURIKA Rattlesnake Hunt,. Apr. 1 1-13, . Citywide., (405) 372-2540 Boomtown Theater. (918) 352-2236 (580) 2282553 Celebrate Stillwater Festival Apr 12, Couch DUNCAN Spring Bluegrass Festival, Apr 25-27, WAYNOKA Mardi Gras. Mar 1. Caf6 Bahnhof. Park. (800) 99 16717 Shady Oaks RV Park. (580) 255-7042 (580) 8244063 DURANT Fort Washita Rendezvous, Apr 26, Fort YUKON Spring Fling Craft Fair, Apr 5, Dale Rob Washita Historic Site. (580) 924-6502 ertson Center. (405) 3547208 RENO '89ers Day Celebration, Apr 26, 300 S TAH LEQUAH- -.- EL Cherokee Heritage Center Hw62,3 miles S of Grand. (405) 262-5 121 Tahlequah. ~ar-6,Apr 5, ~raditionalArt Class. FORT GIBSON Heritage Days, Apr 1 1-13, Fort Mar 29-30, Cherokee Genealogy Conference. Gibson Historic Site. (918) 4784088 (918) 456-6007 FOSS Easter Egg Hunt, Apr 12, Foss State Park. Babe: The Play Mar 25, NSU Center for Performing (580)5924433 Dates and times are subject to change; Arts. (91 8) 458-2075 GORE Green Country Trout Derby, Mar 7-9, MarVal please confirm before attending any Family Camping Resort. (918) 489-2295 event. The Events Guide is a free service FREEDOM Earth Day Celebration, Apr 19, Alabaster ~ublishedon a s~wc~vailablebasis. To TULSA Caverns State Park. (580) 62 1-3381 Fairarounds4145 E 2 1st St. Mar 7-9. Antiaue HEAVENER Annual Sunrise Service, Apr 20, Heav- be considered, ;lease mail a notice of the STOW.Mar 12-15, Speedhorse Barrel ~dcin~.brpr ener Runestone State Park. (918) 653-2241 event that includes date, place, address, 23-26, Charity Horse Show. (918) 744-1 1 13 HOBART Children's Fun Fair, Apr 4, Women's and both a contact telephone number and Tulsa Performing Arts Center 1 10 E 2nd St. Exhibit Building. (580) 726-5643 a phone number that can be published. HUGO Early Bird Bluegrass Show, Mar 28-29, Mar 1, Sleeping Beauty. Mar 2, AEROS. Apr Notices must arrive at Oklahoma Today 25-26, Laura lngalls Wilder: Growing Up on Fairgrounds. (580) 326-5598 the Prairie. (91 8) 596-71 1 1 IDABEL Dogwood Days Festival, Apr 45, Downtown. three calendar months prior to publi- Dance of the Two Moons Mar 1-2, Southern (580) 286-3305 cation (i.e. July/August 2003 events Hills Marriott. (918) 382-1206 INDIAHOMA Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge must arrive by April I). Events Guide, Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation Rt 1. Mar 15,22,29, Historical Sites Tour. Apr 12, Oklahoma Today, 15 North Robin- 26, Spring Wilderness Hike. (580) 429-3222 Mar 1-16, Philbrook. (918) 749-7941 son, Suite 100, Oklahoma City, OK Weather or Not Mar 2 1, Tulsa Air and Space KENTONMesa Spring Spin, Apr 2627, Black Mesa Museum. (918) 834-9900 State Park. (580) 426-2222 731 02.Fax: (405)522-4588.Email: Rendezvous2003 Apr 25-30, Gilcrease Museum. LAHOMA Kite Festival & Craft Show, Apr 12-13, [email protected]. We (918) 596-2700 Weslake Recreation Area. (580) 796-2403 cannot take listings over the telephone.

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&* a week long celebretion- of our mmunitieb' history and heritage Sun., April 6: 1903 Garden ICP YukonNational Soiree in the Park nrrmi?a~nyl~.n* It's not like any museum I've Thur., April 10: Community ever seen! We can touch Singers Concert GhiihoIm Traii P~tival and play and imagine life in Fri., April 11: Western a child-size town! Come and Movie Festival experience it for yourself! Sat., April 12: 26th annual Run For the Arts Fine Arts & H9d at the KidsprickProperty Music Festival (NE Corner of Wndanunt dr GarthBmoh Blvd in Mon, ON 4th annual Land Run Celebration 5k Land Run Race benefiting Seminole, Oklahoma Special Olympics 1-800-259-KIDS ...where children play to learn I e adults learn to play. CQSPONSORED I*: 1714 Highway 9 W Stillwater Parks, Events and Recreation, I (405) 382-0950 Stillwater Convention Hours open: & Visitors Bureau I / Tues. - Sat. loam - 5pm For more information, Sunday Ipm - 5pm

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explore North America. Prince Maxim~lian's observations on the expedition, along with THEEND "One should always have a doorway leading from their heart."-Laura Tohe, Navajo poet

I Now Walk in Beauty

The museum purchased the painting from the I artist in 1948.

MET MYNAVAJO INSTRUCTOR, VALENCIA BImONI, by the firelight that others were as deeply affected by the song as Iat the Hubbell Trading Post in Ganado, Arizona. We drove I was. Although I did not understand the words, the song had deep into the Navajo Reservation, where the magical landscape reached into my soul. of red sandstone canyons and mesas dotted with pifion, chamise, At dawn, the ceremony ended with the two sisters exiting the and sheep mentally transformed me. hogan and saying prayers to the sun. That morning, I learned that As Philbrook Museum of Art's curator of Native American art, the medicine woman had sung a song in my honor, one the Navajos I felt learning to weave directly from the Navajo artists would had not heard in years. This was the song which had provoked my give me a better understanding of the museum's textiles. So in spirit. During the night, the medicine-woman alsd had blessed August 2201, I left Tulsa to spend a week on the Navajo my loom, batten, combs, wool, and unfinished weaving. As the reservation in northeast Arizona. Little ceremony came to a close, I was instructed to walk in beauty and ventured out on that to maintain harmony in my life. Inspired by her expressions, I Sunday morning that I was embarking finished my weaving the next afternoon. As I look upon the painting Navajo Weavmby Harrison Begay at For Navajos, weaving is an ancient art encompass- Philbrook, I again become a Navajo weaving student. Considered ing the beauty found in everyday life. Because the Holy People the foremost among Navajo painters, he constructs scenes from ev- made them, the tools used for weaving-the loom, batten, and eryday Navajo life with charm and sophistication. Highly stylized, comb--each have a place and purpose in Navajo origin stories. Begay's images contain endless combinations of forms, designs, On two successive evenings, I participated in a Blessing Way patterns, and color. Ceremony held for my instructor and her sister, Glenna. On the My weaving experience, inspired initially by this artwork, second night, long past midnight and in the midst of an all-night launched a spiritual journey that has changed my life forever. "sing," I suddenly experienced a great release of emotion and Now, as I sit at my loom, I relive this experience, and I now walk began to weep. When I looked around the hogan, I could see in beauty. -Shelby J. Tisdale

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