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Gathering Place

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On September 6, 2018

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Gathering Place is a park like none other in Tulsa for everyone to enjoy. Gathering Place is entirely free to the public and is an adventure sure to inspire wonderful moments for generations to come. Josh Wright and Cayla Lewis give a tour of the park, which opens to the public on September 8, 2018.

This video was filmed yesterday as part of a media preview event. Besides me with Uncovering Oklahoma, there was only one other news organization from the Oklahoma City area. We had a blast at Gathering Place. There’s so much to see and do there. I think we saw most of it. One of the things I know we didn’t see was the restaurants there as they were still working on them.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p8BM_4vTzA

Teaming up with Josh Wright and Cayla Lewis again was great. Josh filmed a vlog from his perspective of Gathering Place. If you want to see more of the park, including what it was like for us to film there, check it out. It’s pretty funny.

While I was in the area, I also did an interview at the Brookside coffeeshop, Shades of Brown. Be on the lookout for that video in a couple of weeks. After I filmed that interview, I made my way home and got back around 6:30. Overall, a great day in Tulsa.

Thank you to my supporters on Patreon who help make this show possible! If you want to see me travel to more places outside of the Oklahoma City area, became a patron.

Amy Cerato - photo by Dennis Spielman

Dr. Amy Cerato – A Geotechnical Engineer

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On September 4, 2018

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Cerato is the Rapp Foundation Presidential Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. She researches and consults in geotechnical engineering, specifically focusing on soil stabilization, expansive soil mitigation and foundation design in problematic soils. She is a registered professional engineer in Oklahoma. She is the author of more than 50 technical papers and the recipient of the 2009 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) and 2008 National Science Foundation CAREER award. She is a member of the Deep Foundation Institute’s (DFI) Helical Pile and Tiebacks Committee and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Geo-Institute Committee of Engineering Geology and Site Characterization.

As for the future of the series, tomorrow, I recently interviewed Dr. Daniela Busciglio, a professor of applied linguistics and a Communications Strategist with DFB Consulting. I may do one or two more interviews before I conclude the second season of Yes! Science! I’m also working on an overarching documentary, which has interviews of everyone I’ve interviewed for the show, discuss the subject of women in STEM fields. I’m also already planning something really exciting for the third season, which I’ll share soon after I have some more conversations with people.

Kim Haywood at Rodeo Cinema - photo by Dennis Spielman

Rodeo Cinema

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On August 30, 2018

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Kim Haywood gives a tour of Oklahoma City’s unique nonprofit art-house movie theatre, Rodeo Cinema. Located in the Stockyards City, Rodeo Cinema plans to promote, engage, and enrich community consciousness through film.

I think it’s great to have another independent movie theatre in town. I’m going to quote a friend, Stephen Tyler, a Managing Partner at Tower Theatre. His response on the subject being concerted with Rodeo Cinema as competition was, “No, because I want more in OKC. Plus I am a firm believer in the adage ‘All ships rise with the tide.’”

I’m looking forward to what Rodeo Cinema does in the future!

Ride OKC - photo from Dennis Spielman

Ride OKC and AMP Fest

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On August 29, 2018

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On August 25, 2018, I did the Cookie Tour with Ride OKC and then went to AMP Festival. In this brief adventure vlog, I share my experience with the bike tour and the female-focused music festival in Oklahoma City.

I’ll have a full story on Ride OKC for Uncovering Oklahoma in a few weeks. I’m wanting to get footage of one more tour, the brewery tour, that they do regularly. On the subject of what’s next at Uncovering Oklahoma, tomorrow’s featured video will be on the nonprofit art-house movie theatre, Rodeo Cinema. Then next week, I’ve been invited to attend a media preview of Gathering Place in Tulsa, which I’m super excited to see. Gathering Place will be next week’s featured video, showing it off before it opens to the public on September 8.

Kendall’s Restaurant - photo by Dennis Spielman

Stirring Up the Ghosts at Kendall’s Restaurant

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On August 24, 2018

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After Sam and Geoff toured the Tower Theatre, they stopped inside Scottie’s Deli where they ran into Greg Elwell of I Ate Oklahoma. Inspired by Greg’s ghost stories of restaurants with an immoral past, Sam and Geoff set off to meet with Kimberly Lock, the owner of Kendall’s Restaurant in Noble, Oklahoma where they try to stir up some activity.

Kendall’s Restaurant - photo by Dennis Spielman

This episode has one of my favorite narrations from Sam where he talks about Geoff being happy. I was doing a final edit yesterday (Thursday) when I felt like I should describe Geoff’s manner. When I recorded it, I improvised it and it was the fourth (and final) take that used. Jeff commented that he really liked this as well. Overall, as Jeff put it, “Great episode. Very charming with humor and stories.”

I’m in the process of scheduling interviews for episode five, A Paramount Discovery in Film Row, which is slated for release on Friday, September 14.

Tales Unveiled is a production of The Show Starts Now Studios and is produced by me, Dennis Spielman. The voice of Sam Saxton is Dennis Spielman. The voice of Professor Geoff DeRoot is Jeff Provine. Featuring Greg Elwell and Kimberly Lock as themselves. Be sure to visit both Scottie’s Deli and Kendall’s Resturant for some great food and I Ate Oklahoma for where to go next. This episode is dedicated to Tobi Coleman, who died heroically putting on the most rocking of rock concerts with leading females on a planet that forbids such things.

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