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In my other job, teaching English online, I read interesting articles with intermediate to advanced students. One of my students chose an article about a floating tent, and I decided to look at other great...
by Kendall Davis on 7/30/2020
No doubt about it, fishing is big business on Lake Texoma. In 2019, the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation and the Texas Parks and Wildlife found that between December 2018 and July 2019 that...
by Kendall Davis on 7/16/2020
Agent Lori Dean Thomas: Her Story
I wrote this story because as we get into the summer season and the Fourth of July celebrations with a lot of party destination tourists heading our way in Texomaland, we all...
by Kendall Davis on 6/25/2020
Lake Texoma 2020 Fireworks 4th of July Celebrations
Lake Texoma celebrates the 4th of July with a number of fireworks displays for the community. Mark your calendars for the following 4th of July events and...
by Barbi Green on 6/17/2020
Guy’s restaurant was supposed to open April 2020 at the popular casino in Durant, Oklahoma. That proved to be the wrong time to open a restaurant anywhere in the world. The hiring process for the...
by Kendall Davis on 6/11/2020
Have people been coming to Texoma to work remotely on their boats, in their campers, or at their second homes during the pandemic? That was a question posed to me. I cannot measure that demographic after...
by Kendall Davis on 5/28/2020
You can buy your meat direct from local ranchers and farmers. You may have noticed empty shelves at the meat counters in grocery stores lately. Be assured that there is not a meat shortage. There are a few...
by Kendall Davis on 5/14/2020
Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act
I started contacting U.S. Senator and Congressman's aides about six weeks ago to find out what the stimulus bill will mean to people and small...
by Kendall Davis on 4/23/2020
I was able to talk to someone at almost all the marinas on Lake Texoma. Many reported being busy and some reported they were almost booked up. All of them are stressing the importance of social distancing....
by Kendall Davis on 4/9/2020
Dante Alighieri was a 14th-century poet born in the Republic of Florence in today’s Italy. “The Inferno” is the first part of his epic poem, Divine Comedy. Dante writes the first known...
by Kendall Davis on 3/26/2020
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Fur Trading and Fashion
Fashion designers in Paris and London played a huge part in expanding the U.S. to create what America is today. Affluenza, as it does today, demanded the...
by Kendall Davis on 3/13/2020
What was it really like when cowboys in Texas and Oklahoma finished their day’s work in the 1920s? Cowboys earned $20 to $30 a month, plus room and board back then. It cost the average U.S. citizen $620...
by Kendall Davis on 2/27/2020
I wrote an article in October 2017 called May 9th, 1930--Mob Burns the Grayson County Courthouse. Several months later, Kevin Nelson, a law student in Albany, New York, who spent his teenage years in Sherman,...
by Kendall Davis on 2/13/2020
This important biological and ecological research station sits west of where Buncombe Creek flows into Lake Texoma and embodies a rich history. Much of the property that constitutes the Biological Station is...
by Kendall Davis on 1/23/2020
What happens today if a family does not want to care for a severely mentally challenged or disabled child, if an elderly person has no family and cannot meet his or her own basic needs, or if a mother is...
by Kendall Davis on 1/9/2020
Celebrate 2020 Near Lake Texoma
Celebrate ringing in the New Year on December 31st near Lake Texoma! There are a variety of options to enter into the new decade of time!
American Legion Post 231
The...
by Barbi Green on 12/29/2019
Ardmore, Oklahoma
The New Whittington Café invited Ardmoreites to start the New Year right by dining at the closest hotel and café to the Santa Fe Depot. Their menu featured:
Cream of Asparagus...
by Kendall Davis on 12/26/2019
Sherwood Shores: Exciting And Positive Achievements: 2019
I believe our Sherwood Shores community has created exciting and positive differences in our community this year. I want to update people about what...
by Kendall Davis on 12/22/2019
Do you ever wonder what life was like in Texomaland during World War One (WW I)? WW I brought on the first U.S. federal military draft since the Civil War with the institution of the National Defense Act of...
by Kendall Davis on 12/12/2019
Visit The Durant Who’s Holiday Christmas Celebration!
Come and visit the Durant Who’s Holiday Christmas Celebration on December 6th through December 7th in Downtown Durant, Oklahoma! The event...
by Barbi Green on 12/5/2019