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I follow the rehabilitation of a severely injured Bald Eagle, from the day she was injured on an icy Oklahoma highway after being struck by a truck, to the day she's released to a new life, and a new purpose, in the Zuni Nation Flight Cage in Zuni, New Mexico. The photojournalist is Catherine Curtin. This story led to the creation of the first raptor rehabilitation flight cage in Oklahoma, The ...

We visit Tommy Raby, a hobby farmer whose barnyard was stuffed with a menagerie of critters, including a herd of fainting goats. Scott Brooks was the photojournalist and this story was broadcast on KOTV?Tulsa, on August 12, 1992.

One year after profiling a seriously injured Marine from Tahlequah, Oklahoma, and his struggle to recover from serious injuries sustained fighting in Iraq, we follow-up to see the progress Jeff Hudgens has been making to walk and talk again, and hear from his father, Russell, who chronicled the long road back in an on-line journal begun almost two years before.

Russell Hudgens contacted me one day in late 2004 and asked if I'd like to read the journals he'd been keeping as he accompanied his son, Jeff, through his rehabilitation after a severe head injury in Iraq. We met with Russell and Jeff at the Veterans Administration hospital in Tampa, Florida, as Jeff Hudgens, a Marine from Tahlequah, Oklahoma, began the long road back from a devastating injury...

As the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination approached in 2013, I visited with two past members of the Peace Corps, a creation of President Kennedy's, who saw it as their legacy in carrying on his ideals which sparked the era of Camelot in 1961. This story was broadcast on KOTV/Tulsa on October 31, 2013, and the photojournalist was Michael Blair.

On the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination in Dallas, in 2013, we remember his 1961 visit to the crossroads of Big Cedar, Oklahoma, through the eyes of some of the people who were there.... and have never forgotten the day they saw an American president up-close.

When you're flying in or out of a major airport, have a window seat and a modicum of curiosity, do you ever wonder who changes all the lightbulbs that dot the field? Photojournalist Grant Gerondale did, and suggested we follow the electricians of Tulsa International Airport on their daily rounds of the airfield. It's not only 3000 runway lights they're responsible for, but all the electrical wo...

On a pleasant August day, photojournalist Catherine Curtin joined me in Ruby and Gene White's front yard in Craig County, Oklahoma. There, in a circle of lawn chairs, we enjoyed watching the passing parade of hummingbirds, lured by Ruby and Gene's plentiful collection of feeders. Ruby loved this hobby so much that her Mother's Day gift every year was 150 pounds of sugar, with which she'd concoc...

The Keesee Family's rocking chair has quite a story to tell. Three presidential posteriors have perched in it. But even that wasn't good enough for PBS's "Antiques Road Show," whose producers told sisters Janie Keesee Word and Dr. Nancy Keesee Walter that theirs was a "nice little family story." Hail To The Seat was broadcast on KOTV/Tulsa on February 20, 2014, and the photojournalist is Michae...

It always seemed to me that we in the media, and really, most everyone, ignored the Oklahoma Panhandle... three counties, Beaver, Texas and Cimarron, that hang off the western edge of the state and give it its distinctive frying pan shape. Not too many people live out there. The weather conditions can be harsh. The distances are long. And there's no oceanfront property or soaring mountain range...

It always seemed to me that we collectively ignored the Oklahoma Panhandle, three counties that hang off the western edge of the state and give it its distinctive frying pan shape. Not too many people live out there. The weather conditions can be harsh. The distances are long. And there's no oceanfront property or soaring mountain ranges. But there's beauty, just the same, if you know where to ...

Things have always been pretty quiet in the Oklahoma Panhandle town of Boise City. And that's how the folks there prefer it. But on July 5, 1943, the Cimarron County town came under attack from a U.S. Army Air Force B-17, which mistakenly dropped its load of practice bombs on the little town. Folks were shaken-up, but no one was hurt. And the story of the terrible mistake ended up being a lesso...

It always seemed to me that we in the media, and really most everyone else, ignored the Oklahoma Panhandle, three counties that hang off the western edge of the state and give it its distinctive frying pan shape. Not too many people live out there. The weather conditions are harsh. The distances are long. And there's no oceanfront property or soaring mountain ranges. It was the bullseye of the ...

On opposite ends of New Zealand, in Bluff on the South Island and Whangarei on the North, we came across two unique collections and the curious curators who oversee them. At Fred & Myrtle Flutey's place in Bluff, we met the delightful couple who'd opened their home, beginning in 1963, to anyone who cared to gander at their collection of shells gathered from around the Pacific islands and from t...

The Oklahoma Traveler in New Zealand, Part 7. Marc Cohen, American who moved to N.Z. for calm & joy.

The Oklahoma Traveler in New Zealand, Part 5. Meet Barry Brickell, proud to be an eccentric potter.

The Oklahoma Traveler in New Zealand, Part 4. Meet Hurricane Tim, preserving Kiwi flying history.

The Oklahoma Traveler in New Zealand, Part 3. Meet the inventor of Bungee Jumping, A.J. Hackett.

The Oklahoma Traveler in New Zealand, Part 2. Meet shepherd Les Knight and his trusty sidekicks.

The Oklahoma Traveler in New Zealand, Part 1. Timeless Beauty. February, 1995, KOTV/Tulsa

The Oklahoma Traveler & Lillian Alexander, blind accompanist at Tulsa's Morningstar Baptist Church.

The Oklahoma Traveler follows-up on an injured Oklahoma bald eagle at the Zuni flight cage, 2004.

The Oklahoma Traveler & the work of saving injured Oklahoma bald eagles, KOTV/Tulsa, May, 2001.

The Oklahoma Traveler & the priceless photo collection of Bob McCormack, Tulsa's go-to photographer.

The Oklahoma Traveler Holiday Special, 1997-2000, KOTV/Tulsa

The Oklahoma Traveler & the Coyote Trail Christmas Tree, December, 2012, KOTV/Tulsa

The Oklahoma Traveler & the first Oklahoma Honor Flight to Washington D.C., shortened 10pm version.

The Oklahoma Traveler and the first-ever Oklahoma Honor Flight to Washington D.C., November, 2010.