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Oprah's Big Adventure in Perry
Published: 10/3/2006 6:07 PM
Last Modified: 10/3/2006 6:07 PM

There is a need for a disclaimer. I really don't watch Oprah every day.
However, I do watch a lot of television when I'm waiting for night games to start. Normally, that is football games and pre-shows on Saturday.
On Tuesday, I was flipping through the channels trying to find something to watch before Tulsa's game against Southern Miss.
As I was flipping, I stumbled across the Oprah show and heard these words: We were lost in Perry, Oklahoma.
There probably isn't much Oprah could say to get me to tune in. However, when she says she is lost in my hometown I'll give it a shot.
Oprah and her friend Gayle are apparently on a cross-country trip and on Tuesday's show they found themselves lost in Perry.
From what I could gather, they had missed the turn onto highway 412 (Cimarron Turnpike) on I-35 to come to Tulsa.
That means they missed scenic Lake O' The Klein. Lake O' The Klein is a five-acre pond just south of the Cimarron Turnpike about two miles east of I-35. It is now a part of my brother Billy's farm. The lake has been home to a few gatherings. In fact, at one time, one of the most coveted invitations a person in Oklahoma could get was an invite to the annual Midsummer Night's Dream Park at LOK.
That's all we're going to say about the party.
If Oprah had made the right turn to Tulsa on the Cimarron Turnpike, she would have seen Lake O' The Klein, my brother Billy's house, my uncle John Steichen's house (the Steichen homestead where my mother grew up) and my cousin Dennis Steichen's house.
In other words, by missing the turn onto the turnpike to Tulsa she missed all of the highlights in Noble County.
Instead, she wound up seven miles south in Perry where she met a couple of cowboys (I didn't know them but I've been gone from Perry since 1972).
Oprah and college football on a Tuesday. Those are firsts for me.



Reader Comments 2 Total
Bill Babb (6 years ago)
Thanks, John. That was fun reading.
Steve Cross (6 years ago)
I attended a Lake O' the Klein event 25 years ago with my (then) wife....I was divorced a year later...coincidence?
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Tulsa World senior sports columnist John Klein is in his fourth decade of covering sports. He started his newspaper career at The Daily Ardmoreite in 1977 and moved to the Tulsa World in 1978. He served 10 years as sports editor for the Tulsa World before being named to his current position in 2005. He also spent five years as the Southwest Conference beat writer for the Houston Post. He has won many writing awards and is a former Oklahoma Sports Writer of the Year.

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