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WRITER FOUND OWN PAST

Telling the history of Claremore…one story at a time. This article was printed in the Claremore Progress June 27, 1993 by Ken Willhoite. It’s odd how we live our lives, rarely thinking about the past.  We walk on the same land on which our ancestors

Gerome Riley – How it WasPart 3

Claremore Daily Progress June 8, 2018 Rick Heaton Progress Correspondent Fourteen years before Texas Western College made history, the Lincoln School boy’s basketball team in Claremore was making history of its own. Lincoln School, Claremore’s school for the black community before desegregation, put quite a team on the

Oliver Lipe “Oowala”

Telling the History of Claremore…one story at a time Article published in the November 11, 1930 and the June 28, 1953 editions of the Claremore Progress written by W. R. Harper. The story of Oowala is in reality the life story of a man who