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The Red Dirt Chronicles is Seven Years Old. Hot Ziggety!

Posted on July 31, 2017August 1, 2017 by Red Dirt Kelly

 I feel like this blog project is a big magnet, and everyone who gets close gets collected…and sticks.  I don’t feel dragged down by the sticking–it’s as if every time we pick someone up (a reader, a contributor, a story, a supporter), the journey is just that much sweeter.

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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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A Reason for Seven

Posted on October 11, 2016January 10, 2023 by Red Dirt Kelly

He shoves his hand in his pockets and toes a patch of creeping thistle with his shoe. The Lakota family remains hopeful for the arrival of their first-born son. The mother rests her hand on her stomach. She has recently battled an illness and says she doubts her boy will wait much longer to arrive.

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Capturing Oklahoma’s Big Sky: How Audrey Dodgen Sees HOME

Posted on September 19, 2016August 4, 2019 by Red Dirt Kelly

“Clean lines, compelling color palettes, refined sense of balance, and the greatest subject matter on earth.”  Thoughts like these run through my mind as I work my way through Audrey Dodgen’s portfolio. An editorial and commercial photographer who calls Oklahoma her home, Dodgen describes a gravitational pull that seems to draw her back to our…

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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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