his story was written by Alice Cline Farbro in 1993 and was provided to Claremore Museum of History as part of the focus on Women’s History Month on February 6, 2023. Of course, I do not remember my birthing day or the nine months in

Telling the history of Claremore…one story at a time.     BY:  Ken Willhoite   This was published in the Claremore Progress Sunday, June 27, 1993   A change had swept over the United States.  The harsh brutality of the Civil War had given way to growth

  The Great Bunion Derby           In March, 1928, the great Bunion Derby, a footrace across the United States, began in California, and Andrew Payne, the local entry, took off walking east with the rest of them.  A Claremore businessman, who launched a drive