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Life as a Death Investigator
From This Land Press
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For death inspector Stacy Williams, bloated corpses and overdose victims are a daily occurrence. It takes a different kind of death to chill her to...

  • Added: May 23, 2012
  • Length: 00:03:35
Growing Up a Poet
Series: The Sound of Our Land
From This Land Press
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John Brehm's family didn't discuss art or literature or poetry. Searching for his own way in the world, Brehm began writing. Decades later, he is t...

  • Added: May 21, 2012
  • Length: 00:02:03
The Baby in His Lap
Series: The Sound of Our Land
From This Land Press
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Shantelle Jennings was a child when photographer Larry Clark captured iconic images of her father, Billy Mann, toting guns and shooting drugs for h...

  • Added: May 21, 2012
  • Length: 00:04:26
Oh, Paperboy
Series: The Sound of Our Land
From This Land Press
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When Matt O'Meilia was 10 years old, a rock star moved into his neighborhood. And not just any rock star. A hometown boy made good. The rock star...

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  • Added: Apr 02, 2012
  • Length: 00:04:14
  • Purchases: 2
One Banshee and One Sunrise
Series: The Okie Dish
From This Land Press
Caption: Caldwell O'Keefe tending bar at his house in Tulsa, Okla., Credit: Abby Wendle
Caldwell O’Keefe was part-owner of and bartender at Nine of Cups, a restaurant and bar on Tulsa’s Boston Avenue. In the 1970s, O’Keefe mixed drinks...

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  • Added: Apr 02, 2012
  • Length: 00:04:23
  • Purchases: 1
Cardiology
Series: Poetry to the People
From This Land Press
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People on the street perform Niklaus Faith's "Cardiology" and discuss the importance of one dead bug and the universal desire to move mountains. Fu...

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  • Added: Mar 21, 2012
  • Length: 00:02:43
  • Purchases: 1
Her Dad, Oral Roberts
Series: The Sound of Our Land
From This Land Press
Caption: Roberta Roberts Potts and her father, Oral Roberts
Roberta Roberts Potts, the daughter of the late televangelist and university founder, Oral Roberts, recently published a book about her father call...

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  • Added: Feb 23, 2012
  • Length: 00:03:50
  • Purchases: 1
Jazz on a Diamond-Needle Hi-Fi
Series: Poetry to the People
From This Land Press
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Deborah J. Hunter's poem "Jazz on a Diamond-Needle Hi-Fi" is performed live in Central Park by jazz musicians Tin Pan. Full poem below.

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  • Added: Jan 19, 2012
  • Length: 00:02:29
  • Purchases: 1
LaDonna's World
Series: The Sound of Our Land
From This Land Press
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LaDonna Osborn spent her childhood traveling around the world with her evangelical parents, T.L. and Daisy Osborn, founders of Osborn Ministries In...

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  • Added: Jan 16, 2012
  • Length: 00:02:55
  • Purchases: 1
Oklahoma Environmentalism
Series: The Sound of Our Land
From This Land Press
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Ginger Strand, contributing editor to This Land Press, discusses Oklahoma's comfort with engineering our environment. Strand explains how the Arkan...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2012
  • Length: 00:03:47
Holla' for Challah
Series: The Okie Dish
From This Land Press
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Rabyne Rogue, a woman converting to Judaism, gets to know the Jewish community through Challah bread baking classes every Wednesday night at B’nai ...

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  • Added: Jan 03, 2012
  • Length: 00:03:43
  • Purchases: 1
Imaginary Oklahoma: "Wailing Wall" by Deborah Willis
Series: The Sound of Our Land
From This Land Press
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Imaginary Oklahoma is an ongoing project in which some of today’s most important and influential writers combine with artists to provide a fictiona...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 00:03:46
Paula Poundstone
Series: Just Passing Through
From This Land Press
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Paula Poundstone has been criss-crossing the country performing as a stand-up comic since she was in her late teens. As a result of traveling so fr...

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  • Added: Nov 07, 2011
  • Length: 00:02:36
  • Purchases: 1
Gordy Ryan says Play a Drum
Series: Just Passing Through
From This Land Press
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Gordy Ryan has been passing through Tulsa since the mid-80's when he was first invited here by an African student group at TU to give an African dr...

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  • Added: Oct 11, 2011
  • Length: 00:04:38
  • Purchases: 1
Clean Dirt
Series: Milk and Honey
From This Land Press
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Kris Gosney and her husband were like most of their neighbors in northwestern Oklahoma: conventional farmers relying heavily on chemicals to produc...

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  • Added: Sep 29, 2011
  • Length: 00:04:17
  • Purchases: 3
Building a Frog
Series: Poetry to the People
From This Land Press
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We visit a group of campers who read "Building a Frog," an evocative poem by John Wooley. With the sounds of the forest, cicadas, crickets and frog...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2011
  • Length: 00:02:17
From Weed Chopper to Community Farmer
Series: Milk and Honey
From This Land Press
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Rufus Newsome knows what it's like to be poor and hungry and dependent on the land. Growing up in Sunflower County, Mississippi, he chopped weeds o...

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  • Added: Sep 07, 2011
  • Length: 00:04:12
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Oral Roberts University History Professor Impersonates Tate Brady
From This Land Press
Caption: Paul Vickery as Tate Brady performing in the Brady Theater, Tulsa, OK, Credit: Lee Roy Chapman and Field Guide Media
You might say that Dr. Paul Vickery channels spirits. Besides his long career as a history professor at Oral Roberts University, he also moonlight...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2011
  • Length: 00:04:46
So Long Tim Lannom
Series: The Short So Long
From This Land Press
Caption: The Brady Mansion, Credit: Beryl Ford Collection, Tulsa City-County Library
Tim Lannom loved big houses and historic houses. He owned multiple properties around Tulsa and spent his time restoring and renovating them with th...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2011
  • Length: 00:04:10
Kate Kline's Veggies and Wine
Series: The Okie Dish
From This Land Press
Caption: Kate Kline with Casserole, Credit: Abby Wendle
Kate Kline’s eating habits are evolving - from conventional family dinners in her 1950s Tulsa childhood, to fancy teas as an officers’ wife, to veg...

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  • Added: Sep 06, 2011
  • Length: 00:03:37
  • Purchases: 1
History Under Oath
Series: The Sound of Our Land
From This Land Press
Caption: Tate Brady, Credit: Beryl Ford Collection, Tulsa City-County Library
In the early 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan had been so active in Tulsa, Oklahoma - doing everything from holding parades to organizing lynch mobs - that ...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2011
  • Length: 00:04:34
Plain Terror
Series: The Sound of Our Land
From This Land Press
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Oklahoma is considered a conservative state these days. But in the early 1900s, Oklahoma had an active leftist movement. Equally active was the Ku ...

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  • Added: Sep 06, 2011
  • Length: 00:05:21
  • Purchases: 2
So Long Scott Raffe
Series: The Short So Long
From This Land Press
Caption: Scott Raffe, Credit: Scott Raffe
Scott Raffe is known around the world for his fine art photographs of Circus Flora and Zoppe, an Italian Family Circus. A Chicago native, Raffe fel...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2011
  • Length: 00:04:04
Dan Piraro is Not a Redneck
Series: Just Passing Through
From This Land Press
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Growing up in Tulsa in the 1970's was torturous for Dan Piraro. It was a land full of ignorant cowboys and Christians. Fancying himself an artist, ...

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  • Added: Aug 06, 2011
  • Length: 00:04:11
  • Purchases: 1
Cleaning Graves in Calvert
Series: Poetry to the People
From This Land Press
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Cleaning Graves in Calvert recounts the ritual of death in small town Texas. Listen as a group of men read Quraysh Ali Lansana's poem and share the...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 00:02:56