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Category: Every Point on the Map

TNMC “Fly on the wall” stuff — EPOTM extra

Posted on August 4, 2019August 4, 2019 by Red Dirt Kelly

I moved to Ada, Oklahoma almost three years ago. Since that time my life has been in a constant state of unpacking and attempting to shape something that looks like a new life here. The energy it takes to uproot to a new location far surpassed any prediction I could have made. But something pushed…

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Medicine Park Magic: EPTOM Tries to Catch UP

Posted on March 15, 2018May 26, 2021 by Red Dirt Kelly

My cold cheeks smiled as I listened to Cydi’s stories while simultaneously managing flash back memories from the late 70s and early 80s.  I had been a drum major; she, an energetic twirler. And, thirty years later, we stood together wrapped in the narrative she so generously shared, the blankets and jackets we were wearing, and a sense of familiarity — both of place, and of person.

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Traveler Shares His Name

Posted on September 29, 2017September 29, 2017 by Red Dirt Kelly

Sam Chesnut’s tender demeanor around his horse Traveler never hints at his former life as a police force sniper. Though bald and supported by a cane from various rounds of cancer treatments, Sam’s gentle voice shares story after story about his favorite horse…each one ending with a kiss on Traveler’s large, dark cheek. It’s as…

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Our Friends Have Skills: Dru Martin Redux

Posted on June 18, 2017February 1, 2023 by Red Dirt Kelly

When reporting on themes like corporal punishment, or leaving phrases like “colored people” in an audio file, I wrestle with my own positionality…and the intersectionality of me (the listener), and they (the historians).

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People are just SO. SWEET. ~ EPTOM: Camargo, OK

Posted on August 5, 2016September 20, 2022 by Red Dirt Kelly

If you’re ever traveling through Camargo and need a soft peppermint, you know where to go. And, if you lost a batch a greeting cards, Mary may still be holding them for you.

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Traditional Freedoms: EPTOM ~ Seiling, OK

Posted on July 22, 2016March 15, 2018 by Red Dirt Kelly

Stories of people who disappeared and were never found. Two cowboys who fought so much that when they finally killed each other in a gun fight, the locals buried them together as punishment for the havoc they wreaked upon their community.

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Lee of All Trades ~ EPOTM: Leedey, OK

Posted on July 16, 2016May 27, 2022 by Red Dirt Kelly

He said that the Oklahomans who left that area for California during the Great Depression “left in the middle of the night because they were ashamed to show their faces.”

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Teen Spirit: Summer in Vici, OK ~ EPOTM

Posted on June 14, 2016June 15, 2016 by Red Dirt Kelly

In the light of our recent event in Orlando, and the subsequent politically charged discourse, I thank God for places like Vici, Oklahoma. A place where high school students can have a high school life. Where they can find their way. Where they can realize they live in a fairly quiet town. And where they can openly appreciate all those things.

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Land Tales: Taloga, OK ~ EPOTM Dewey County Run

Posted on June 8, 2016June 8, 2016 by Red Dirt Kelly

Perhaps it’s because she can comically joke about an area brothel going out of business and in the same breath pledge her allegiance to the place where she was born, raised, and will most likely die.

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How Tuffy Got His Name: Putnam, OK ~ Dewey County EPTOM Run

Posted on June 5, 2016August 10, 2022 by Red Dirt Kelly

Our family had lost my grandmother only three weeks prior to this run. That moment in our life, intersecting with wheat harvest and an elder in overalls brought back memories of not only my grandmother cooking meals during harvest, but of my grandpa who died six years prior. And, my other grandparents who had passed during my late adolescent and emerging adulthood years.

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Western Oklahoma Girl: The Early Life of Drucilla Martin – EPOTM, Grove, OK

Posted on April 14, 2016July 22, 2016 by Red Dirt Kelly

Introduction 89 year-old Drucilla “Dru” Martin is almost completely blind. But the life she witnessed prior to her dimming view was, in many ways, quite extraordinary. We met Dru during our last stop in far NE Oklahoma.  With more energy than most of our discussants, she told stories for well over 1.5 hours, stopping only…

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Poverty, Testing, and the Multiple Roles of Male Middle School Teachers: EPTOM, Quapaw, OK

Posted on April 3, 2016June 14, 2016 by Red Dirt Kelly

Thomasson could have been from anywhere because his story is the same: over testing does as much harm as good; absent parents are absent for a reason, but their absence makes it that much more difficult for a child to succeed; and, male teachers balance the precarious position of being sometimes the only male role model in a young studnet’s life.

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The Solitary Dog Whisperer: EPTOM ~ Picher, Cardin and Commerce, OK

Posted on March 19, 2016January 2, 2023 by Red Dirt Kelly

Sherry looked minutia-like against the vast gray sky, the empty acreage, vacant cattle trailers and the capable farm equipment scattered close by. As we drove up, rolled down the window, and explained our project she didn’t blink.

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Fading Signals: EPOTM Picher, OK Stop A

Posted on March 10, 2016July 9, 2021 by Red Dirt Kelly

The first time I was to pass by a dead body during a funeral service, my stomach twisted into knots. A line of grownups in front of me sauntered alongside the casket, solemnly paused, murmured words to family members on the front pew, and moved on. Those in line modeled what I was to do,…

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Backstage at the Coleman with Danny Dillon: EPOTM – Miami, OK

Posted on February 29, 2016May 15, 2016 by Red Dirt Kelly

Cripes, I missed the theatre…and Dillon did everything he could to help us enjoy the full experience of the Coleman the day we sat and talked…which made me miss it even more.

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EPOTM: Wyandotte, OK ~ Cassie Pearl and the Cool Rock House

Posted on February 5, 2016April 8, 2016 by Red Dirt Kelly

Quietly, I watched Cassie Pearl Browning name each family who lived within a couple of miles of her new home, the lease signed only two weeks before we visited her. She was in her element, surrounded – literally – by family members who had settled in Wyandotte generations ago.

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EPOTM Visits NonDoc in Essay Over Truths

Posted on February 4, 2016April 3, 2016 by Red Dirt Kelly

We choose our recommendations carefully, sharing those we feel not only fit with our mission, but provide a quality read.

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Abbey Brave and Tall: EPOTM – Peoria, OK

Posted on January 24, 2016March 19, 2016 by Red Dirt Kelly

Although the State had been grateful for her foster parent status, she was denied her petition to adopt because of her age. But Carolyn didn’t accept that answer. She appealed, and was eventually granted permission to become Abbey’s mother.

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Cigar Philosophy in the Warr Room: EPOTM ~ Yukon, OK

Posted on January 20, 2016February 28, 2023 by Red Dirt Kelly

Kyle Warr’s grandfather and father developed much of what is now known as Warr Acres, Oklahoma. Kyle is a business person who lives in Yukon with his family. Get to know a little about him, his cigar shop and music business during this Every Point OK conversation in this video.

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“Surviving Just Right” – EPOTM: Little Axe, OK

Posted on January 13, 2016February 29, 2016 by Red Dirt Kelly

They were also the first couple to witness us being approached by a Lake Thunderbird ranger who asked us for a park entry fee because we stepped out of our vehicle.

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