Delawalicious
Delaware Ice Cream and Deli 26168 State Hwy. 22, DelawareBeyond the nostalgia of red, white, and blue and a neon...
Sibling trickery
Since this is my sister’s birth month, I have been contemplating how much I appreciate her and how much she means to...
Roads less traveled
My Dad really loves maps. I don’t mean that he’s a cartographer or even a map collector in the traditional sense. I...
Little lives of the creek: A system in concert
My first memories of a creek trace back to Hackers Creek. As water runs its course, Hackers transforms it from the...
The creatures that time forgot
SHADOWS ARE POWERFUL, TRANSFORMATIVE entities in the mind of a teenager. None more so than those encountered while...
Downtown Cornerstones: Oklahoma Gas & Electric Building
Foward by Johnny Carrol Sain It’s long been cliche to say that downtown is the heart of a city. But it’s an easy and...
Bona fide
Alligator Rays 109 West Main Street, AltusBona fides in the culinary world come in many forms — awards, media...
The old one
While the River Valley still boasts of woodlands and plains with wildlife abounding, our home region is a far and...
Late boneset: A fragrant late-summer pollinator favorite
The flowers in these photos are late boneset. It goes by a few other names — lateflowering thoroughwort, white...
A Native giant
Last week our family went on a short getaway to the Sallisaw and Fort Smith area. While there we went to see...
10 things ABOUT: Chance Duncan
Age: 38 years so far to enjoy this incredibly quick lap around that stellar ball of fusion 93 million miles...
Behind door number one
As summer winds down and a new school year looms right around the corner, my son Raff and I embark on what I like to...
The trouble with toddlers
The older my son gets, the more I miss when he was little. That saying that the days are long, but the years are short...
10 things ABOUT – Bill Hefley
Age: 76Hometown & Years in the River Valley: My home town is Dover, but I was actually born at Ben Hur in Newton...
To the Bone
I’m a little squeamish when it comes to handling eyeballs and brains. You’d think that after dismembering hundreds of...
Chuck Will’s Widow
Orange flames from the backyard pit flickered in Rosa Lynn’s emerald eyes as the first day of summer unfolded into a...