Tag: martins

Landlords have their fingers crossed for arriving purple martins

Oklahoma landlords have their fingers crossed for purple martins as the birds return this season for nesting. Bad weather last year took a toll on the birds in many parts of the state. Oklahomans know these long-distance migrants from their distinctive white bellies with dark upper upper-body tha...

No time to “wait”

In 1963, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote the famous words: “Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.” He also wrote, from a cell in Birmingham Jail, “There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs o...