I've got a lot of ideas and raw material this week, but nothing finished. So I'm posting this story that originally aired on CBC Radio One's "The World this Weekend." It's about a young ally in Norman who planned a protest for George Floyd and other victims of police violence. Thousands of people attended. 

The first game of the Oklahoma University football season was much different than usual because of coronavirus restrictions. I talked to a longtime Normanite about it. 

In a social media poll The Center of the Universe in Tulsa was recently ranked as the worst attraction in Oklahoma. I checked it out.

Social media poll by Matt Shirley (who creates a chart a day): https://www.instagram.com/mattsurelee/

The pandemic has made a lot of people feel lonely, and it has made a lot of people get dogs. This is a story about how I found a dog & tried to help it.

Oklahoman Wilson Rawls wrote "Where the Red Fern Grows" and "Summer of the Monkeys." Millions of his books are in print. But he spent his early adult life wandering & going in and out of prison. How did he manage to write the books we're still reading today?

Thanks to: 

Tahlequah Public Library (especially Tony), Cherokee Heritage Center (especially Callie), Beth Herrington, Jim Trelease (full Wilson Rawls speech available https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IieGtEFexOc&t=1s), Jim Granger, Tony George, Mary Wedig, Jane Zwiefelhofer, @okstatepencollection on Instagram.

Flyover Country is a podcast that tells interesting stories out of Oklahoma.