On labor day, T.J. and I decided to take a drive to Marshall, Oklahoma, and have a picnic. Marshall was the home of Angie Debo, one of our great Oklahoma writers and historians. Debo was censored in her time for being way too honest in her historical writings, in fact the state of Oklahoma did not recognize Debo's lifelong achievements until the 1980s when she was in her 90s. Her portrait was finally hung in the state capital next to humorist Will Rogers, Indian athlete Jim Thorpe, and many of the state's leaders she had exposed in her books. In 1993 Debo was inaugurated to the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame. We were surprised to find that her grave was quite humbly marked in the North Cemetery.
(If you don't know who Angie Debo was, you can find out Here and Here.)
(If you don't know who Angie Debo was, you can find out Here and Here.)
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