They were Okies. They swarmed over the State in vast tidal waves, drawn by reports of men needed for the cantaloupe harvest in the Imperial Valley, foe cotton picking in the San Joaquin Valley ...
It’s been six years now, and countless nights setting up, plugging in, warming up to play a couple of sets, and feeling happy ...
We’re almost into the second round of the 2023-24 NBA Playoffs. We’ve seen one classically great series, New York versus ...
"The Bakersfield Sound: How A Generation of Displaced Okies Revolutionized American Music" is more than 275 pages and features 50 photos, many never before published. Anyone with an interest in ...
Who would have thought that there were so many young Okies with severe glaucoma or chronic back pain?! Was there a growth in the use of cannabis after the 2018 medical legalization? Maybe.
but they continued to face discrimination when looking for work, and they were called “Okies” and “Arkies” by the locals regardless of where they came from.
Route 66, the Mother Road that carried the fictional Joad family in "The Grapes of Wrath" from Depression and Dust Bowl ...
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The Oklahoma Senate last week passed a bill that will prevent school employees from subjecting disabled students to corporal punishment.
Editor's Note: Page 2 contributor Pat Toomay played for the last team to go winless through an entire NFL season, the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers. As the Detroit Lions, who are now 1-13, approached ...
Route 66, the Mother Road that carried the fictional Joad family in “The Grapes of Wrath” from Depression and Dust Bowl ...