LaDonna Osborn spent her childhood traveling around the world with her evangelical parents, T.L. and Daisy. They were the founders of Osborn Ministries International. Here, LaDonna muses on her parents’ faith and the strange pieces of art the couple collected throughout their journey.

LaDonna's World

Roberta Roberts Potts is the daughter of the late televangelist and university founder, Oral Roberts. She published a book about her father called My Dad, Oral Roberts. Potts shares memories of what it was like to have an Evangelical rock star for a father.

Roberta Roberts Potts

Bobby Berryhill served with the Oklahoma National Guard for 16 months in Iraq and Afghanistan. He’s lived on and off the streets ever since.

Bobby Wants To Get In Touch

As a long-time Tulsa attorney, Joseph L. Hull has spent much of his life negotiating deals. A few summers ago, he found himself up against a woman with little tolerance for compromise: June, the “pie-warden,” as Hull affectionately dubs her, of the Tulsa State Fair.

Winning Pie

Carol Johnson came from a family where the word "sex" was never uttered. When she was 15, she left her family in Kansas and moved to Oklahoma. Soon after moving, she got pregnant. This is the story of what happened next.

I Wanted to Hold Him

We stopped by the Harmonica Summit held every spring at the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame and met Brian "Hash Brown" Calloway who gave us a lesson in the Blues.

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