One night in Oklahoma, several years ago a strong wind came through. Oklahoma’s winds are sometimes memorable and this one was no exception. It wasn’t a twisting, swirling tornado, but a straight, hard wind that blew over a huge catalpa tree that had stood in my parents’ back yard for generations. I believe this flowering […]
May 3, 2017
Winds of Change: Conclusion
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· This is the second and final installment of my May 5, 1985 Daily Press article about the tornado which destroyed Peggs, Oklahoma on May 2, 1920. In 1920, Walter Neel lived with his parents, brothers and sisters on the Gid Morgan farm, two and a fourth miles southeast of Peggs. The storm went a mile […]