PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: [email protected], Phone: 580-490-6823 I joined Facebook in 2008. Several years ago I made the statement Facebook was the most powerful communication tool the world has ever known. It is an instant world-wide communication system. Just yesterday I posted a simple question on my Facebook, “Anyone ever heard of Grassy…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: [email protected], Phone: 580-490-6823 The past week I have been re-adjusting myself to my new job at the Food and Resource Center in Ardmore. I’ve really enjoyed working with everyone and all the various duties my job as Warehouse Manager entails. It is a rewarding job and I feel…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: [email protected], Phone: 580-490-6823 After 14 months in the computer department of Michelin, I decided to broaden my horizon. Monday May 7th was my last day at the plant, and on Wednesday May 9th I reported for duty at Ardmore’s Food and Resource Center as Warehouse Manager. So far…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: [email protected], Phone: 580-490-6823 Much of Oklahoma had some rough weather yesterday and last evening. Thankful we in southern Oklahoma faired ok without much lose of property and no lives lost. Its that time of year folks. If you don’t have one, you need to get a weather radio…

Ardmore, Oklahoma Email: [email protected], Phone: 580-490-6823 After posting photos here in last week’s newsletter of Poker Rock southwest of Lone Grove at 3135 Timber Road (just west of Cheek Road), I’ve received updated photos this week. The ones I post in last week’s newsletter I took in 2004. https://oklahomahistory.net/ttphotos18a/PokerRock042318a.jpg https://oklahomahistory.net/ttphotos18a/PokerRock042318b.jpg Below are the photos I…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: [email protected], Phone: 580-490-6823 This week’s newsletter will be a little shorter than usual. I’ve had so many projects going on, I been busier than a cranberry merchant at Christmas time. In the Archives Section below there is mention of the Lone Grove’s Poker Rock I talked about on…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: [email protected], Phone: 580-490-6823 There were a couple of visitors to the Remembrance Park memorial at the Airpark on June 16, 2017. When they signed the guest register, they also made a comment that a relative died that evening during the 1966 plane crash. What really caught my attention…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: [email protected], Phone: 580-490-6823 About 12 years ago I received an interesting email about a lady named Ethel Hindman, the wild woman of the Arbuckle Mountains, and the reason for the name Wild Woman Cave near Turner Falls. Ethel’s niece lives in Montana and stumbled across what little info…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: [email protected], Phone: 580-490-6823 Okmulgee Oklahoma Police Department – 1908Henry Klaber, Assistant Chief. Killed in the line of dutyOkmulgee Police Department On Sunday, November 15, 1908, Jimmy Grayson had filed a complaint against a black gunsmith named Newt Decker over an argument about a day’s catch of fish. Chief…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: [email protected], Phone: 580-490-6823 I’ve been working at the Michelin Plant a year and two months in the computer department. Sometimes when I go out to the tire production area, I look in a long display case just before the double doors and there in the display case are…