PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: [email protected] Phone: 580-490-6823 In a couple of days this year will come to an end.  I want to express the appreciation I have for all the good times myself and so many others have shared right here the past 12 months, not to mention the learning of so…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: [email protected] Phone: 580-490-6823 Sunday, December 28, 1919Ardmore, Oklahoma BUCK GARRETT HOST TO COUNTY SHUT-INS ON CHRISTMAS DAY At the county jail, following his usual custom, Sheriff Buck Garrett was host to the prisoners on Christmas Day. And the sheriff lived up to his policy of not doing things by halves…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: [email protected] Phone: 580-490-6823 Last Thursday evening I had a terrible time trying to get my newsletter sent out.  My email program would send out a couple hundred and then just stop, just hang there for about 10 minutes until it timed out. This went on the rest of…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: [email protected] Phone: 580-490-6823 12/10/11 Mystery solved.  After trial and error, I found that my subscribers (7 of them) with noble.org on the end would not go through. I don’t know if the Noble Mail Server was treating those 7 as Spam or what, but they were undeliverable. In…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: [email protected] Phone: 580-490-6823 An old friend has moved back to Ardmore and living here like he did in the 1930s.  I’m talking about the Palacine Indian statue. Ardmore’s collector-of-about-anything-Ardmore, Steven Harris, has looked far and wide for years in search of this statue from Ardmore’s past. He finally…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: [email protected] Phone: 580-490-6823 Hope everyone’s Thanksgiving Day was a good one and all that stuffing until we’re ready to pop is behind us.  We didn’t have the traditional Thanksgiving dinner like most. Jill prepared a pot roast that was out of this world, along with green beans, candied…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: [email protected] Phone: 580-490-6823 Steve Hamm is in the process of adding another piece of history to the Ardmore Criterion website. This 52 page collection of historical Ardmore sites was a creation of Sally Gray before her death last year. Almost every page has a photo of Ardmore’s past, many before statehood…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: [email protected] Phone: 580-490-6823 With Veterans Day tomorrow ( Friday November 11th) I thought I’d share a letter written by my uncle, Paul E. Bridges, less than 30 days before he was killed in action on French soil in January 1945. I cannot imagine that January day in 1945…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: [email protected] Phone: 580-490-6823 Received an email this week with a picture of an otter attached. His field cam snapped the picture the other night southwest of Dougherty, Oklahoma in the Arbuckle Mountains. He wasn’t real sure if it was an otter or a mink.  So I posted it…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: [email protected] Phone: 580-490-6823 There has been a slow gentle rain nearly all day today across Oklahoma, including Carter county where its so badly needed.  Supposed to be more tonight, then clearing on Friday.  We will take all the rain we can get right now. The rain gauge at the…