The first settlers on the Great Plains had little time for fun amidst the hardscrabble toil that made up their daily existence. Yet out of this era came some of our most precious, and now fading, traditions. Box suppers, church socials, spelling bees, and barn dances each held the common essentials of food, music and neighbors that made life on the plains not only bearable, but also downright enjoyable. And of those events, none was more anticipated than the dances.

This week, Luke puts a new air rifle to the test.

This week Classical Music Amarillo celebrates the end of another great semester at West Texas A&M University’s School of Music with two extraordinary faculty performances!

Just because it's cold out doesn't mean you can't be thinking about your garden...or someone else's garden. Help the gardeners in your life with thoughtful gardening gift ideas!

Hi, I’m Benjamin Myers for “Poets on the Plains.” Today I’m going to share with you one of my own poems. I’ve been writing poetry since I was in middle school, but it was a couple of summers during high school spent at the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute at Quartz Mountain that confirmed my dedication to the art of poetry and set me on the certain path to the writing life.

It's Christmas, and Carol Dickens's life is in major transition. Tune into the two-hour broadcast at one of the two times it'll air during the 2025 holiday season: Sunday, December 21st at 1pm CT, and Thursday, December 25th at 1pm CT

At the end of the season, it can be tempting to clean up your entire garden of all detritus from old plants, but leaving the seed pods, plant stems and other materials can have some benefits, and this week, we'll talk about how to make dormancy work for you!

Luke's good friend Larry Weishuhn aka "Mr. Whitetail" joins Luke in this weeks show and the two recap a hunt earlier this week on the Choctaw Hunting Lodge www.choctawhuntinglodge.com owned by the Choctaw Nation in southeast Oklahoma. Luke was hunting for an oryx with his Tex Rex, a 51 caliber big bore air rifle made by AIrforce Airguns. Click and listen to Larry and Luke tell about this exciting hunt.

This week we celebrate West Texas A&M University’s talented student musicians with performances by the WT Symphony, Symphonic Band, and more!

In the Sherman County Depot Museum in Stratford, Texas there hangs a plaque which honors a citizen who literally ‘went the second mile’ in his attempt to save the lives of a stranded family during the terrible snow storm of February 11 and 12, 1948.