Category Archives: history
Windsor Hills History, Part 3 of 3
This is the last of three posts about the history of the Windsor Hills neighborhood in northwest Oklahoma City, where my parents lived from 1978-2022. The previous post covered the initial layout of the streets and the Windsor Hills Shopping Center and … Continue reading
Windsor Hills History, Part 2 of 3
This is the second of three posts about the history of the Windsor Hills neighborhood in northwest Oklahoma City, where my parents lived from 1978-2022. The previous post covered the period from the Civil War through the 1950s. This post … Continue reading
Windsor Hills History, Part 1 of 3
My parents lived in the Windsor Hills neighborhood of northwest Oklahoma City from 1978 until 2022. I lived there with them in junior high and high school, but left for college in 1984. After my father passed away in early … Continue reading
Putnam City and the Prophet
There was a Putnam, and eventually there was a city, but there never was a Putnam City. I attended Putnam City schools from first through twelfth grades. But I never lived in Putnam City, because it never officially existed. Israel … Continue reading
Can we be hopeful in the wake of the storm?
May 3, 2020 “I must confess that I found myself almost hopeless in the wake of the storm.” So wrote Dr. J.C. Taylor, the health officer of Rogers County, Oklahoma, of his feelings after the 1918 flu pandemic. What lessons … Continue reading
Meador Manor 