EDMOND, Okla. (KFOR) — Town history matters most when people start to see it slipping away.
Edmond History Museum Director Amy Stephens has witnessed the phenomenon again and again as citizens here donated old pictures and items ranging from huge electric hair curlers to neon hotel signs, even blue hippos.
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She explains, “We get stuff in the mail, it walks in the door, or we get phone calls.”
They all come to an old, rock structure on South Boulevard, once a storage building for the swords of war, now, for the past 40 years, a different type of repository for the plowshares of history…