The Haskell News
2022 (54” x 40”)

My grandparents owned the daily newspaper in Haskell Oklahoma from the 1930’s-1960’s. My grandmother served as the writer/editor andI have memories of Papa setting type and running the big printing press. My grandmother sat at her typewriter right under the window where she wrote about the small town news, social goings on, school sports, birth announcements and obituaries. Between her writing duties she walked back home and made a hot midday dinner. After the tolllway was built Haskell dwindled into another sad little near-ghost town this country is littered with. But during my childhood in the 1960’s and 70’s there was still lots of news, and 1 stop light, in Haskell.