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Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net Phone: 580-490-6823 If you’re looking for a certain article I wrote in a past issue of “This & That” you might find it faster by doing a “search” with your browser. With Netscape just click your mouse at the top at EDIT and then FIND and type in the word or words you’re…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net Phone: 580-490-6823 I hope everyone has been enjoying the holidays and Christmas was a good one. I’m sure many of you did as I did and ate too much, and you’re planning to go on a diet January 1st. We didn’t do very much, we stayed home…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net Phone: 580-490-6823 A week from today is Christmas Day. I hope everyone has been enjoying the holidays. Giving and receiving Christmas gifts, cooking and eating food, cake and candies of all kinds, Christmas carols and music, the beautiful Christmas lights and displays everywhere we go, Christmas trees…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net Phone: 580-490-6823 I saw on the news last week where railway passenger service is suppose to open up from Oklahoma City to Tulsa.  I really enjoyed riding the train when I was young, even if it was only a few times. Even before my teenage years my…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net Phone: 580-490-6823 I was thinking this week how Ardmore used to be the cotton capital of the world over 100 years ago. In the 1890’s 50,000 to 60,000 bales of cotton, with a value of over $1 million, were sold in Ardmore. This continued for many years.…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net Phone: 580-490-6823 I hope everyone has enjoyed Thanksgiving and took a moment to say thanks for all the good things that has come your way this year. I know we have as blessings have been bountiful at our home.  Thank you God. We had around 30 turkeys…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net Phone: 580-490-6823 I remember back in the 1960s my Carmon grandparents would load me up in their car on a Saturday afternoon after closing their lumber yard and we’d head NE toward Gene Autry, Oklahoma to look for persimmon thickets. We would usually find at least one…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net Phone: 580-490-6823 I am happy to report that we reached our goal of $500 this week for the law enforcement memorial that will be placed in Healdton, Oklahoma.  The memorial will honor police officers Jim Hutchison (1930) and Doug Durington (1985) who died in the line of…

Ardmore, Oklahoma Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net Phone: 580-490-6823 We are just waiting on two or three more pledges to come in, and we are ready to order the memorial marker in memory of Healdton police officer Jim Hutchison. Police officer Hutchison was shot in 1930 in a gun battle at Healdton and died days later from those…