Archive for January 29, 2008

These 50 States: Oklahoma

Posted in Patch Collecting, These 50 States by John E. Pannell on January 29th, 2008 at 6:03 am

Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain
And the wavin’ wheat can sure smell sweet
When the wind comes right behind the rain…

I thought it was well past time to return to a state that actually had some state shaped patches.  Some of these are classics of the hobby, too.

This is the sixteenth in an ongoing series of posts about state shaped patches. Previous entries have covered state shaped patches from Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Montana, New Hampshire, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia.

There seems to be an affinity of sorts between lodge Texas and Oklahoma when it comes to OA collecting.   A couple of lodges chose to use the combined shape of the states of Texas and Oklahoma on their patches.   I will mention them here as well as the post for Texas.

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