Affidavit of publication · Tulsa, 1916
I analyze public records about towns and neighborhoods, revealing new stories about the past.
As a history recovery specialist, I use historic maps, census records, and land surveys to find places in the public record long after the places themselves are gone. I take all these scattered pieces and use modern tech tools to bring them back to life, so that people can envision these places in a new way. As Utah Phillips reminded us, “the past didn't go anywhere.”
SOURCE “Bridges,” from the album The Past Didn't Go Anywhere, Ani DiFranco and Utah Phillips, 1996
Projects
Fourteen of the sixteen quarter-sections at 51st and Mingo, allotted to Creek Freedmen and transcribed from Hastain's 1910 plats.
The main alignment across Oklahoma, the reservations affirmed after McGirt, and the thirteen surviving All-Black towns.
Contact
If your town/organization is sitting on an archive you want brought to life, or you have a family story you'd like to unocver, or you have a question about any of the projects here, I'd love to hear from you.
TEL (918) 876-0974
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