Oklahoma - Trunkations

First Post-Iraq War Museum

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

The race to lock down the telling of 21st century American history has started in an unlikely place: the small town of Hobart in southwestern Oklahoma. It’s there that the General Tommy Franks Leadership Institute and Museum is opening this weekend to much fanfare, and a concert appearance by Wayne Newton. The four-star general (retired) [...]

Roadside News: March 13, 2009

Friday, March 13th, 2009

Chicken Empathy Museum – LA | Giant Buddhist Goddess – OK | Meteorite Comes Home – AZ | VA is for Lovers of Large Bladders – VA

Kin Demand Geronimo Bones

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

Where are the skull and bones of the great Apache Indian leader Geronimo? We asked that question years ago, and even carried a Geronimo skull proxy with us on the road to see if it could mystically lead us to the real thing (it couldn’t). Geronimo’s skull and Andre the Seal, Rockport, Maine. It [...]

Roadside News: Feb. 2, 2009

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

Versailles Castle | No Fork Ahead | If Ever a Wiz There Was | That Lee Allan Guy

Titans Threaten Greatest Liberty

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

You may not realize that the Statue of Liberty is the tallest statue in North America: 151 feet from sandal-bottom to torch-tip. Other people, however, are keenly aware of that measurement. They intend to top it. Last year David Adickes was in the news, with his dream of building a 280-foot-tall cowboy. This year Ted [...]

Big Gusher Yearns for Cartoon Mapdom

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

Shane Jett is a 33-year-old Oklahoma state representative who’s up for reelection on November 4. His opponent, a 22-year-old machinist, says that he decided to run against Jett because of an idea that Jett proposed last November: he wants to build a $100 million, 1,100-foot-tall fake oil derrick to straddle the Oklahoma River. Jett first [...]

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