We had just left a rather bizarre conversation with a policeman in Cashion and were headed back home when we spied the “Navina” sign.
The central Oklahoma town, if one can call it that, sets just off Seward Road, between May and Pennsylvania Avenues, basically in the middle of pastureland. The elongated rectangle of road, measuring about three-quarters of a mile at the most, is home to only a few houses.
We were playing chicken with the Sun, pushing our last stop that day as we swirvingly navigated through a crowded parking lot full of cars bearing license plates from all over the U.S.
The scene: The “Expo” building on the Holdenville fairgrounds.
The event we were trying to crash: A 50-year Holdenville High School class reunion, lovingly given a “Prom 2.0” theme by those who had been planning the event since their 45th “Prom,” five years back.
While we continuously sort through what our project is, we are fairly certain of what it is not.
Every Point on the Map was never intended to serve as a vehicle for promotion of business, places or people. Rachel and I have already had several discussions about how to decline when someone asks to be the person we speak with in certain towns.
Rachel and I drove in circles around Lima and New Lima, Oklahoma on a hot summer Sunday afternoon. We failed at our task: trying to distinguish a border between the two towns. So we asked the locals and received a brief history lesson about the boundaries, and who we might talk with when we reached each side. Continue reading EPOTM: New Lima, OK (By the Grace of God)→
We were loading our equipment into the car while Bull and Bobby were sitting outside a convenience store in Mounds. Bobby needed a smoke.
“Aw…here we go…” Bull acted put out while at the same time positioning himself to tell the short version of a story he clearly treasured. Continue reading EPOTM: Mounds, OK→
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