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This is an audio track I made of my class reading an Anthony Shadid article. I used it to create a music piece. I had an original video with it, but sadly the video would not upload.

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Henry Overholser was responsible for the first two-story building in what is now OKC

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It’s Orren Skirvin’s headstone! This can be found in Fairlawn Cemetery in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma!

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A sculpture in honor of Anthony Shadid.

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In the beginning of his memoir, “House of Stone,” Anthony Shadid describes the gruesome environment of the Middle East. I admire this, because although it is HIS memoir, he selflessly writes about others.

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I was able to interview Anthony Shadid’s high school English teacher. She told me about how he won all of his high school’s awards. He was so embarrassed by it, but in the end, his whole class cheered for him because they knew he worked harder than anybody and deserved it.

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Anthony Shadid’s marker (His ashes were actually scattered in the garden of his hometown of Marjayoun.

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This is a sculpture that’s supposed to commemorate Orren Skirvin! He was very prominent in oil and it was his main job for most of his life. 

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Orren decided that he was done with other things, so he went to Shawnee and was a rancher until he died in 1981.

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Jeremiah K. Fretz’s house still stands and is occupied. He died there.

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Little is known about Jeremiah K. Fretz, just like the location of Waldo.

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Sculpture made in memory of Jeremiah K. Fretz, Oklahoma City, OK.

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Mr. Henry Overholser, ever the generous soul.

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Henry Overholser built the first hotel in what is now known as Oklahoma City

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Henry Overholser’s entire life was making something out of nothing.

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 From Lewis Ellison,

Good heavens! What a variety of drinks! How could any one person drink so many different concoctions at once?! We certainly didn’t have most of these back in my day. Maybe that new store in Memphis I read about in Roscoe Dunjee’s paper carries some of these, the umm... the Piggly Wiggly? I don’t see any alcoholic beverages up there, I hope that new prohibition law I heard about in Virginia isn’t on the move...

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Some musings on Lewis Alfred Ellison, and humanity in general.