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imagiNATIVEamerica » Oklahoma City's 1910 Plan for Grand Boulevard by W.H. Dunn
Oooooo! Aaaaaaah! Beautiful maps, plans, and renderings of an early day plan for Oklahoma City's parks and boulevards.
Urban Review STL: Visiting the Parents & Grandparents
Steve Patterson returns to a small Mennonite cemetery near Corn, Oklahoma, where his grandparents are buried, and reflects on the changes in lifestyle since their time: "In our era of agribusiness we've lost so much -- namely the ability to sustain ourselves individually and as a community. My grandparent's generation lived longer lives than their kids largely, I think, because their diet wasn't composed of overly processed and packaged food. Their diet was mostly organic produce & meats. They didn't call it organic, it just was."
NETSTATE.COM: Oklahoma State Flag
The statutory definition of the design of the Oklahoma state flag, including Pantone Matching System (PMS) designators for the colors. (The field is French blue, PMS 285c; I used the color for my yard signs when I ran for City Council in 2002.)
strange maps: 206 - Going, Going, Gone: the Old Cherokee Country
A 1900 map depicting the shrinkage of Cherokee lands in the east from their greatest extent to the final treaty before removal to the west, plus an informative historical timeline of Cherokee history from the early 1700s to the present.
Amaizing! A farmer north of Shawnee has carved a maze into his cornfield. The design incorporates the official Oklahoma Centennial logo. Click the link for details on hours of admission, fees, and extra attractions, like the corn cannon.
