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Oral History: Opal Baum
Opal Baum talks about her life growing up on a farm outside of Duncan, Oklahoma.
Oral History: Twisted Spike
Bruce Sanchez of Twisted Spike Brewing talks with us about the beer business and brewing in Oklahoma City.
Oklahoma Voices: Carol Hamilton
Former Oklahoma Poet Laureate Carol Hamilton talks about her life as a poet.
Oral History: Glenna Miller and Maria Lemke
Glenna Miller talks about growing up in rural Oklahoma while her daughter Maria Lemke talks about her summers riding horses and her career as a biologist.
Oklahoma Voices: Carol McReynolds
Carol McReynolds talks with her sisters Judy and Doris about growing up in Ohio, and working with the Friends of the Library in Oklahoma City.
Oral History: John Alexander
John Alexander talks about growing up in Nowata, Oklahoma and living in Atlanta and Oklahoma City.
Oral History: Darin Behara
Darin Behara talks about his career working at various universities in and out of Oklahoma.
Oklahoma Voices: Byron Gordon
Byron Gordon talks about his life growing up in Oklahoma and fighting in the Philippines in World War II.
Oral History: Glen Edward Burleigh
Musician Glen Edward Burleigh talks about growing up and going to school in Oklahoma and about his life as a composer.
Oral History: Margaret Bell Tampkins and Leonard Tampkins Jr.
Born in 1916, Margaret Bell Tamkins talks about her life growing up in northeast Oklahoma City. In the second half of the interview she is joined by her son, Leonard Tampkins Jr., who talks about being a part of a group that became the first students from Douglass High School to attend the University of Oklahoma in the early days of integration.
Oral History Kent Frates
Kent Frates tells the story of when his uncle Charles Urschel was kidnapped by Machine Gun Kelly.
Oral History: Sophie Palin
Sophie Palin talks about her career working with pachyderms and in security at the Oklahoma City Zoo.