For my last few blogs I did a lot of going back in time. But for this blog we rejoin the present, already in progress. This blog is going to be short on words (maybe, I'm not done with it yet), and long on pictures. I'm preparing to get on another internationally bound airplane. I looked back (for just a minute) to remember when I first knew I was going to Ethiopia and my thoughts were...
In 1928 the Head of E.W. Marland’s gas pipeline network built a house on a lot given to him for naming his firstborn son after the man responsible for handing out city lots. His lot was in the 800 block of North Fourteenth Street, in Ponca City, Oklahoma, directly across the street from the fence boundary of Marland’s estate. Dan Kygar, who was a hunting companion of E.W. Marland had made a run into the...