Goodbye Tulsa

Who speaks up when the minister dies? In mourning Billy Joe Daugherty’s death, parishioner Scot Law sheds light on his pastor’s sensitive nature.

With his good looks and supernova trumpet playing, Chet Baker wowed the world–but it’s Baker’s unique singing voice that Bruce Guthrie remembers best.

E.W. Redmond, known as The Kite Gypsy, turned his hobby of flying kites into a world record–but he also turned the hobby into an exercise of generosity and joy.

Michael Selvaggi, founder of Mario’s NY Style Pizzeria, brought New York to Tulsa a slice at a time.

Cheryl Benford, an English teacher at Carver Middle School, was the tough kind of teacher that everyone loved.

Carl “Uncle Zeb” Bartholomew was an iconic figure among kids raised in Tulsa, but a different kind of celebrity to southerners who knew him as Cole Justice.