Alice Eve Cohen’s play, “Oklahoma Samovar,” tracks a family’s footsteps over five generations, from Latvia to Brooklyn, Kansas and Oklahoma. There are.
When the Lovely Mrs. Smith and I, along with the two of our progeny born outside the confines of Northwest Arkansas, moved here several years ago, we discovered we were actually part of a wave of folks reminiscent of events like the Oklahoma Land Run and the California Gold Rush.
133 years ago today, on April 22, 1889, an estimated 40,000 people took part in the Land Run to present-day Oklahoma that opened 2 million acres to settlement.