Excerpts from an article in the Claremore Daily Progress article written by Larry Larkin and published March 22, 2009.  IT WAS A DIFFERENT TIME, IT WAS A FAMILIAR PLACE As far as I know, Gerome Riley never has authored a book. He certainly knows how

Andrew Hartley Payne was born in Foyil, Oklahoma on November 17, 1907. Andy was a member of the Cherokee Nation and graduated from Foyil High School in 1927. Andy had no interest in becoming a farmer like his father, his primary interest was school. Every

Telling the history of Claremore…one story at a time RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN’S OKLAHOMA! – THE ORIGIN OF MODERN MUSICAL THEATRE  Excerpts published in the July 2022 OHS Extra Newsletter  Seventy-five years after Rodgers and Hammerstein adapted Green Grow the Lilacs into Oklahoma!, the duo’s first