John Lampton Belt, 1936-2013

It came as a shock to me to read in Steve Lackmeyer’s Oklahoman article that John Lampton Belt died Sunday morning, at the age of 76. Steve’s article was published on-line on the same day, March 10, and it appeared in the print version of the Oklahoman on...

Oklahoma City Circa 1967 – Part 1

This article was originally posted on February 29, 2012, in very preliminary form and it has taken me until May 9 to finish it. It is VERY long (about 69 pages if you can print it without the left pane and top banner) but it is bookmarked so that you can move quickly...

Christmas Actually

Updated December 24, 2010 This is my Oklahoma City Christmas 2010 post. The background tune for all but one of the videos below is taken from the very fine 2003 movie Love Actually in which actor Bill Nighy plays an over-the-hill rocker (Billy Mack) trying to make a...

The Atkinson Heritage Center Photo Album

Accompaniment to the 4-minute video below is provided by the Voices of Music ensemble to Johann Pachelbel’s Canon in D Major and was taken from its You Tube video. The video presents many of the grounds & 1st floor images of the Atkinson Center, but it does...

The Curious Case of H.C. Schilling

In researching information for my main article on Historic Capitol Hill, perhaps nothing more interesting popped out of that research than information relating to H.C. Schilling, Capitol Hill’s ex officio mayor from 1905 until his removal from office on 1907. I...