As this blog develops, we’ll continue to add links to a variety of news and information sites. Today I’ve added the Tulsa World’s web page for the 1921 Race Riot. It includes front pages and stories from the time of the race riot, a time line and other useful information. I’ve also added the Tulsa Historical Society. Let me know of any sites you’ve found useful.
June 2, 2014
Heard much discussion today about the exchange of five Taliban prisoners for Bowe Bergdahl, an American service member who went missing in 2009 and has apparently spent most of that time a prisoner. There are solid arguments all around, but one of the things that strikes me is the decision the authorities had to make. To say no would have been to sign Bergdahl’s death warrant. By saying yes, the administration may have signed the death warrant’s of future terrorism victims.
These five exchanged prisoners are supposed to spend the next year in Qatar custody. It will be interesting to see what happens to them.
Filed under Politics
June 1, 2014
Since before anyone now living can remember, the little church I grew up in has set aside the first Sunday of June as “Children’s Day.” Instead of the usual Sunday regimen of Sunday School and preaching, the children of the congregation put on a short program, then everyone retires to somebody’s pasture for a potluck picnic lunch, a softball game and homemade ice cream. It is a ritual that continues to span generations, bringing back families that moved away generations ago. As far as I know, Children’s Day is a unique observance; I have never heard of anything comparable.
Today, my son, my granddaughter and I joined my parents for another Children’s Day. It was a pleasant day, warm but not overly hot. Lots of homemade ice cream. More young children than I have seen here in many years.
I like to think Children’s Day is one of those rare anachronisms that survives our impatient age of air conditioning and inertia. All those little ones give me hope.
Filed under General
May 30, 2014
This blog is an experiment — but also, I hope, the beginning of a correspondence. For the past forty years, I’ve been able to meld a newspaper career with an abiding interest in history and politics. As I develop this site, I hope it becomes a place where ideas and information on Oklahoma’s past, present and future are exchanged and discussed.
I’m just getting started, so bear with me. And feel free to chime in.
Filed under General
Randy Krehbiel 