The Oklahoma Panhandle is home to less than 1 percent of the state’s residents, and yet the odd outcropping of land that gives Oklahoma its unique shape is home to a fecundity of stories, sights and pieces of history. SLEEPY HAMLET CATTLE AND HORSE RANCH DRIED-UP CREEK BED The first stop on a tour of […]
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Food festivals fill a traveler’s plate all summer in Oklahoma
For millennia, human beings have anxiously waited out the end of winter and the annual coming of the year’s crops. The plants break through the ground and people break out the wine, bringing forth a nonstop bacchanalia to celebrate the arrival of food on their plates after months of cold. STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL PEACH FESTIVAL WATERMELON […]
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Oklahoma City’s World of Wings Pigeon Center shares more about pigeons
Take a ride around London in one of those famous double-decker red tour buses and, passing Parliament Square, you may hear a story, possibly apocryphal, that before he died in 1965, Winston Churchill said he never wanted a statue of himself erected in London. This, the story goes, was because of Churchill’s intense loathing for […]
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Oklahoma City’s urban gardeners can grow their own food for next to nothing
rowing your own is that you can grow four specific flavors and textures. The fact that it’s fresh means that it’s usually sweeter, not gritty like the ones at the supermarket. The taste is massively different. “Our goal this summer is to have all our vegetables come from our garden or the farmers’ market.” STATE […]
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OKC diversity group offers business networking for gays, lesbians
In 2004, a small group of business owners formed the Diversity Business Association ” DBA Metro, for short ” to give that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender businesspeople in Oklahoma City an outlet for meeting and networking. “It was something that had been needed for a long time,” said Monty Milburn, marketing specialist with […]