Jonathan Elmore

GUTHRIE Tucked away in one of downtown Guthrie's historic buildings lives the Oklahoma Frontier Drugstore Museum. Long story short, I love this place! True, I am a museum nerd so I say that a lot, but this one was a completely unique collection of everyday things that were found in every pharmacy from the earliest days of our statehood and on throught the decades to follow. It's a collection of the pills, powders, syrups, tonics, and um, leeches that made up the cures for every kind of...

ARCADIA My mom and dad loved to explore Oklahoma just like I'm doing now. They weren't necessarily museum lovers like me, but we'd go to one every once in awhile if it was close by where we were. They were nature buffs so any chance to go to a walking trail or waterfall, we were there, usually on a weekend after dad's payday. One of the reasons my dad liked to explore was photography. He was an amazing photographer. One day I'll make a post that shares his work, most of which is in the...

When I was a kid, my family spent a lot of time in Hutchinson, Kansas. Both of my parents grew up near there and we have tons of family from Hutch. Love you guys! Never in a million billion trillion years did I ever imagine there was an enormous salt mine in Hutch that had been discovered in the late 1800s and in full operation since the 1920s. Luckily in 2007, the Strataca Salt Mine was opened to the public for tours. Every twenty minutes or so, there is a group descent down into the...