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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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