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All Good Things: 116 Farmstead Market & Table Softly Opens

Posted on May 15, 2016July 22, 2016 by Red Dirt Kelly

One glimpse of her yellow, brown and button-accented apron encasing the junior waitstaffer and I was smitten – dually smitten with the wearer, as well as the space within which she was ringing up a coffee for me and a “Dublin Dr. Pepper” for my husband. We were standing at the counter of 116 Farmstead Market &…

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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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My Little Victory Garden: Lessons We Teach Our Plants

Posted on April 8, 2016April 10, 2016 by Red Dirt Kelly

Over half my vine’s branches were hewn and burned this past February. “Give up the weight, dear vine, so you can focus your energies upon doing a smaller job very well.”  My enlivened whispers continued as I ripped a full nine feet of harsh, brown-dry entanglements from the left side. Then again on the right….

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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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