Jonathan Elmore

LUTHER On a stretch of Route 66, in a rural part of Oklahoma, there sits a service station that has an incredible story. First opened around 1915, and now on the National Register of Historic Sites, the Threatt Service Station humbly sits by the side of the road in Luther. But its history is anything but ordinary. The life of the filling station began when Allen Threatt, Sr. opened a place to sell gasoline on the now famous Route 66. Back then it was simply a new road that made...

EDMOND I knew that there were a few collections on the campus of the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond, so I chose a beautiful autumn day to go investigate. I had some other stops I wanted to make like the Melton Gallery, a must see by the way. My final stop before my parking permit expired was the Library. I was directed upstairs where I found an amazing collection of things from some of the museums on campus. It was like highlight displays of the collections around the school...

EDMOND I had a pretty good time in college. Even though I was in school about three hundred years ago, when I went to the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond, those feelings of being a young man on campus came flooding back. It was inspiring to see young people at the beginning of their adult lives walking from class to class. Even if they looked a little exhausted or perhaps a bit hung over, they still had a glimmer of hope in their eyes as they backpacked it to the next lecture....