PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: [email protected] Phone: 580-490-6823 The past couple of issues I had a pic of what I was told was a Bull Nettle (took pic at Frederick).  And since then we’ve had plenty of emails on this plant.  I’ve even seen it spelled thisle, and thistle. I have received several…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: [email protected] Phone: 580-490-6823 Back in April 2004 a lady in Atlanta, Georgia emailed me to say her grandfather, who lived in Healdton when he was alive, had in his possession a old very thick negative of the famous 1909 Ada hanging of 4 men. This week Jim Foreman…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: [email protected] Phone: 580-490-6823 This Friday, May 20th is going to be something for all the railroad enthusiast out there.  Steve Goen is heading up a tour Friday of the railroad depots from Gainesville, Texas to Lindsay, Oklahoma. Friday evening at the Ardmore depot there will be a culmination…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: [email protected] Phone: 580-490-6823 This Saturday is the 2011 Oklahoma Outlaw Lawmen History Association RENDEZVOUS MEET on May 14th at Frederick, Oklahoma.  Frederick is 120 miles west of Ardmore, 45 miles SW of Lawton. We are looking for a good turnout, with beautiful weather, and plenty to see and…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: [email protected] Phone: 580-490-6823 Over the past 15 years I’ve been blessed to have many Readers helping contribute to my Oklahoma History website. When a long time T&T Reader and contributor passes away it leaves a void, and I miss being able to contact that old timer and ask…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: [email protected] Phone: 580-490-6823 Thanks to a couple readers this week we almost have everyone identified in the group photo taken in 1981 of some Ardmore Memorial Hospital nurses. Here is the list: 01 Marquita Johnson McGee02 Carolyn Smith03 Judy Knox04    ?05    ?06 Virginia Camp07 Sandy Farney08 Dave Moser09 Shirley…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: [email protected] Phone: 580-490-6823 I talked to Herman Kirkwood this week and he’s been telling me about the upcoming 2011 Oklahoma Outlaw Lawmen History Association RENDEZVOUS on May 14th at Frederick, Oklahoma. Jill and I have been to several of his yearly RENDEZVOUS Meets and they are always jam…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: [email protected] Phone: 580-490-6823 At around 5pm this afternoon a terrible storm came through the Ardmore area while I was at Walmart.  It was a torrential downpour, with high winds, medium size hail, and the EOC sounded the sirens 2 different times while I waited inside the Walmart entrance.…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: [email protected] Phone: 580-490-6823 Long time Ardmoreite Bob Kerr stopped by this week.  I never know what neat piece of Oklahoma history Bob is going to bring, but it always proves to be interesting.  This week he had a photo of a LaSalle automobile belonging to Joe Mullen. Its parked in…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: [email protected] Phone: 580-490-6823 I never know what the mailman will bring me from the T&T Readers. This week I received a packet from Texas from Wilda Stephens. I had no idea she was sending it, so it caught me by complete surprise. When I opened the envelope, inside…