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davidgjurk
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Strataca Salt Mine SD 480p
The Strataca mine is still an operating mine, but part of it is a museum with more than 100 years of history. The museum sits 650 feet underground, and visitors travel can on a miniature train and by cart through sections of the mine.
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Kuterevo Bear Sanctuary, Kuterevo, Croatia
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The main attraction in Kuterevo is a bear sanctuary which has been in operation since 2002. On a recent visit to Croatia, I stopped at the volunteer run refuge for bears that are unable to return to the wild. illbirdpress.com
Jet, Oklahoma
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Jet is the gateway to the Great Salt Plains in Oklahoma, a popular outdoor recreation area and national wildlife refuge. Jet, population 210, with an auxiliary Air Force base nearby, remembers its past in its community museum. illbirdpress.com
Lichenologist Sheila Strawn
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Sheila Strawn, a retired educator and biologist, has a second book on lichens being published this month. Her book and lichen work is an effort to encourage the study and documentation of lichens in Oklahoma and surrounding states. illbirdpress.com
Barnsdall, OK, and Big Heart Day
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Barnsdall is a small town in northeast Oklahoma and was home to several notable people, including Clark Gable. The town is also is noted for a chemical plant that has been in operation for 85 years and produces specialty waxes.
African American Art Exhibit
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A traveling exhibit of 20th Century African American art from the Smithsonian is on exhibit at the Wichita Art Museum from now until May 23. The exhibit contains more than 40 works from about 30 artists from the Harlem Renaissance through the end of the century. illbirdpress.com
Oklahoma Frontier Drugstore Museum
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The shelves of Oklahoma's drugstore museum in Guthrie are full of interesting bygone medicines, concoctions, pharmaceutical paraphernalia, and herbal remedies. I talked with the museum president recently about the history of the museum and the multitude of artifacts within it. illbirdpress.com
K-State Insect Zoo
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Kansas State University houses one of the most interesting exhibits of live and displayed insects, and other arthropods, that I have ever seen. Here's a brief look at the small "zoo" with thousands of the most bizarre and interesting animals you'll ever meet. illbirdpress.com
Oz Museum, Wamego, Kansas
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All things Oz can be found at the Oz Museum in Wamego, Kansas. My wife and I spent an afternoon there last weekend, and relived the excitement of the movie we watched as children. We also learned much about the author, L. Frank Baum, and his other writings. Also see illbirdpress.com
OK Bioblitz! 2020
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Oklahoma held its 20th BioBlitz! event Oct. 2-4, hosting mostly a virtual biodiversity event because of the pandemic. However, several nature walks were held across the state, and I went on two of them at Sequoyah and Osage Hills state parks.
Abernathy Boys
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Bud and Temple Abernathy, two adventurous Oklahoma boys, captivated America with their travels in the second decade of the Twentieth Century. They met presidents, inventors and important figures on four amazing trips across the United States by horseback, auto, and motorcycle. illbirdpress.com and davidgerardart.com
Capulin Volcano, NM
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An ancient volcanic field in northeast New Mexico includes the remains of a cinder cone volcano rising 1,300 feet above arid plains. I took a nature walk with Park Guide Melissa Weih to learn more about this rugged area. illbirdpress.com
Emmett Kelly Museum, Sedan, KS
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Emmett Kelly, who created the clown Weary Willie, was the best recognized circus performer in the late 1900s. Towards the end of his career, he appeared on television shows and in movies, but many people don't realize his accomplishments as an artist, his first career. illbirdpress.com and davidgerardart.com
Okie from Muskogee, the song
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Okie from Muskogee has been a popular song for more than 50 years, but what does it actually stand for. I briefly tell its history and give my take on the composition that was named the No. 1 Country city song. illbirdpress.com and davidgerardart.com
David Arbour and Red Slough
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David Arbour has been recording a bird count at the Red Slough every week for 20 years. I accompanied David recently on one of his counts, experiencing his deep interest in the natural world and a former rice farm that now attracts thousands of migrating birds during the summer and their mating seasons. davidgerardart.com and illbirdpress.com
Search for victims of Tulsa's 1921 Race Massacre
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Search for victims of Tulsa's 1921 Race Massacre
Nancy Moran, nurse and environmental/social activist
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Nancy Moran, nurse and environmental/social activist
Cathie Eisen, New Mexico author and artist
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Cathie Eisen, New Mexico author and artist
John Hope Franklin and Reconciliation Park
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John Hope Franklin and Reconciliation Park
Oklahoma fucking sucks but I liked the Merc's briscut meat there. And I live in Colorado
Don’t worry I like your videos
His family moved to Houston Missouri when he was 6 years old.
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Love Janis since I was 13 ('78) ❤
I enjoy these short films, David! This nicely compliments the study of earth history I recently explored. :) So were the movie props there because they use the mine for a filming location?
Hello, Mr. Gerard! Thank you for presenting this fine video dear sir. :) I went there once and plan to go again...but I wish it were possible to go back 60,000 years ago and see this lava field being active in all of its hellish glory. Thanks again! 😊
Ah...beautiful, charming, and informative.😊 Thank you Mr. Gerard! :)
a MASSIVE beast on tracks
I knew his family and both of his sons. Lived in Muskogee all my life so I remembered all of this when it happened. Good job David!
My grandmother was white in the two story house my grandfather was elmer collins in house with black roof i found out I have a lot of family buried in ke ton cemetery
That is my favourite behemoth like machine i would like to visit the behemoth when i go to west mineral, Kansas one day i am from phillipines soooo i need to go to united states before going to Kansas
His book, The Hillside Stranglers, is a book I read and re-read often. Just his way with words and descriptions makes it even more gripping. Great to see a video of him uploaded to UA-cam. A blessed 2024 to you and everyone else reading this message!
Man, you're a real asshat. . . and an exceptionally ignorant one at that. Talking smack about alleged "psuedoscience" as an instigative (not investigative) journalist without any scientifc training or experiences. It's Plain to see that you made your lving being an ignorant asshat. What she and her many cohorts (including Fell and Fuller) discovered, studied and thoroughly researched is nothing short of amazing and solid science. . . . You, on the other hand, followed the dumbest hypotheses of truly pseudoscientific method, claiming migration via the Bering land bridge about 8k years ago. . . which has since been adjusted many times in many directions, to include known dates reaching back to at least 20k years ago, and likely inhabitaiton coming from the Atlantic as well as the south. And you (a washed-up small town "journalist") want to introduce the concept of "logic" in your weak-sauce diatribe standing on the grave of a great woman? Oh man, that's rich. . . .
I was doing Geneology research and was given Asa and Fannie name. Fannie is related. Her mother was my great aunt sister. So sad that I never made it to Kenton to meet Ada and Fannie.
That museum would be a perfect tourist attraction in the area, especially for military/history buff's
My grandmother on my father's side was born in kenton around 1910 thank you for sharing information about kenton I didn't know
Sois gente maravillosa, un saludo desde España.
I am a retired Army 52E (prime power production specialist) and a Navy veteran Sonartech. I love working with electronics/electricity. With the Corps of Engineers we could produce some power and I would really have loved to see this in operation.
He has a nice pond, so many beavers being kept only have cattle water troughs to `swim' in. Yay for him😊😊
Just think BIG BRUTUS is Tiny to The Captain
I LOVE YOU JANIS!
Music too loud
Standing on someone's grave and slandering their legacy, and in the name of Science at that.
Science™ not science The lies have gotten to the point everything the official report states is likely the opposite In this case with the Heavener Runestone there are other Ruins near this area Pawnee. Which the X had a mark on it representing human sacrifice. If this where kids they would've used the same style on each. Decedents that claim their family has always been there.
The lies have gotten to the point everything the official report states is likely the opposite In this case with the Heavener Runestone there are other Ruins near this area Pawnee.
Which the X had a mark on it representing human sacrifice. If this where kids they would've used the same style on each. Decedents that claim their family has always been there.
Family lived in and around Sedan. Never went into museum but always wanted to. Nice little video.
Very interesting. Thankyou
Beavers are cute. Baby beavers are very cute. Baby beavers throwing a temper tantrum are extremely cute. 😘😡🦫
Iam a 8th cousin descendant of Temple Reeves & Bud Van Abernathy.Thank you for sharing this amazing documentary &Oklahoma History
She has a very soothing voice
This is great! It is a incredibly dark day in our history that can not be forgotten.
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Jet Oklahoma is located down HWY 210 straight outta Enid Oklahoma, Its in Alfalfa County, and has 20 towns between the Sign and the Border of Kansas including Wheaton the home of Blue Farms LLC. My grandmas family is from this place. Wheaton is East from main street.... Toward where they say this place is. Louisa May Alcott was from there & so was The Sutton family. It is officially called Jet Cherokee.... This town was built on the Wright brothers land near Jet. Orville and Wilbur Wright lived there all their lives after returning from the Army. Its an old dusty town and it still has A Post office and a homeland down the road, it was taken out by a tornado in 1983. But majority of the town remains. I might return one day and do a restoration project with some loving hands!
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A Comics'GOD who created strips from 1931 to 1977 all by himself not missing a single day & by doing so created 1of THE most enduring,influential, marvelous,unique comic book universes ever concocted. That's SENSEI CHESTER GOULD's eternal legacy. ✊🏼👏🏼👏🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🔥🇧🇷🏴🖤
People have crossed the Atlantic ocean in 10ft boats, the idea the ancients before Columbus didn't make the journey is absurd. Your opinion is just that, an opinion.
A very ignorant and unresearched opinion from a small-town journalist at that. This guy is a clown.
My dad took me & my brother to Brutus back in around 1958. It was operating & stopped for a lunch break. Dad talked the operators into a tour. We went up the elevator underneath & up some internal stairs to look over the big room from a higher level with all the cables in operating condition. In the end we stood in the operators room for about 10 min. while he operated the machine. It was much quieter & smoother than you would think. When it turned to pick up & drop load from the shovel it was almost as if the land was moving back & fourth instead of Brutus. Also, when we were in the operators room they had a refrigerator inside the door in the corner for drinks & lunch. What they let us do was probably against the rules but it was a very special memory. If I remember correctly I think there were 3 operators involved. We had to walk about 1/4 mile from the parking area to get to it when the horn went off & OT stopped.
Too bad they cut this interview off.
Thank you David for sharing this update from last year,I volunteered there for longer periods from 2004 and the last time in 2013,Wish you a peacefull and optimistic day
If I travelled to america, I would visit Port Arthur only because Janis was from there.
ok, shill.
I was traveling and I met Asa. He told me about the ram that hit his vehicle. He told me about the astronomical society there.
Only a year to build?!
OMG I LOVE YOU!!
It is sad that people still hunt them. This is barbarism.
Good job ser 😀😀👍
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I remember well when Janis died; I was in homeroom the following day when a classmate passed me the newspaper article. Janis' death was known to be an accidental OD when it happened & nobody questioned it; I don't know where all this suicide BS is coming from all of a sudden 50 years later. She'd gone out & bought a pack of cigarettes right before she died.The contorted position of her body on the floor indicated she keeled over quite suddenly & hit the floor hard, & that is what was reported at the time & in several biographies published since then. People who intentionally OD tend to arrange themselves to appear as if they're sleeping peacefully. It was also reported then that she was planning to marry some guy named Seth & was very happy, but the guy in this video is claiming suicide was the original theory that has recently been debunked. Nonsense. He's got it backwards.
Beavers are cute. Its why i love women soo much!
Her picture on the book cover shows just how good looking she was.She was 13 years older than me, but I would've given her a shot. Her talent, proven on stage/studio was first rate. Blue eyed soul. Sure she was picked on for being a nonconformist, but people surely drove her to the lifestyle she chose . It IS a disgusting immoral thing that happened to her, and the guilty will be held accountable for bullying her /drugging her when they try to get into Heaven. As for Janis, well, it's not so one sided. Being bullied gives her a leg up at the Pearly (PEARL ! ) Gates IMHO. Maybe her spirit is already there?
AWESOME ! !