Daily photos from Oklahoma City and the surrounding
metro area
Monday, January 19, 2009
An enoooormous head
This caught my eye as I drove through a beautiful tree-lined neighborhood two blocks from the University of Oklahoma in Norman, in the yard of the Firehouse Art Center, but I didn't know that then. I just saw a house with a huge head in the front yard. I love college towns.
Oklahoma is called the Sooner State, because when the state was opened up land was given away not by lottery but by land run, in a "shotgun start" style. At a certain time, all the settlers lined up at the starting line took off at a dead run and ran as fast as their buggies, coaches, buckboards, horses and legs could take them until they could find land that no one had claimed, 160 acres at a time. Unfortunately, not everyone waited for the starting shot and took off Sooner than they were supposed to: hence, the Sooner State. This bronze statue, actually a series of statues depicting the land run, is found along the canal in Bricktown, in downtown Oklahoma City (OKC) and when finished will be the largest bronze statuary in the world.
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Bill B.
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