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How Curious

How Curious

By: KGOU Radio
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 Exploring Oklahoma legends, tall tales, oddities, and conundrums. Heard something you're curious about? Submit questions and suggestions for future episodes to curious@kgou.org.2025 Social Sciences Travel Writing & Commentary
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  • How did an Italian palace come to be on the Oklahoma plains?

    How did an Italian palace come to be on the Oklahoma plains?
    Sep 30 2025
    In this month's How Curious, host Rachel Hopkin visits the sumptuous Marland Mansion in Ponca City, Oklahoma, and finds out the story behind its creation. It was built in the mid 1920s for the oilman and later OK state governor E. W. Marland. However, he only lived in it - with his second wife Lydie, who was formerly his adopted daughter - for a relatively short time. Alas its creation coincided with a downturn in Marland's once astronomical fortune and he and Lydie were forced to vacate and live in one of the estate's supporting buildings instead.
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    16 mins
  • Why is Oklahoma sending thousands of rescue dogs and cats out of state?

    Why is Oklahoma sending thousands of rescue dogs and cats out of state?
    Aug 26 2025
    Animal shelters and rescues across Oklahoma are regularly transporting thousands of adoptable animals in need of homes out of state. In this episode, host Rachel Hopkin learns more about why Oklahoma has an overpopulation of cats and dogs and what is being done to alleviate it.
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    17 mins
  • How did Waynoka, Oklahoma, briefly become a center of pioneering jet set travel?

    How did Waynoka, Oklahoma, briefly become a center of pioneering jet set travel?
    Jul 29 2025
    For a brief period from 1929-1930, the small town of Waynoka, Oklahoma, became the center of a pioneering coast-to-coast air transport service for the ultra-wealthy.
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    16 mins
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