The March, 2024 meeting will be held Friday, March 8, at the President’s home in Broken Arrow. Directions are below. As usual, please arrive at about 7PM.
The meeting starts at 7:30PM.
There will be a brief business meeting to report on progress toward establish a new account with the Bank of Oklahoma for group’s funds. We will also continue discussion about the possibility of OSFW sponsoring an annual or semiannual anthology.
As usual, we wlll then poll members with the ritual questions: Did you write anything? Submit? Publish? Sell, lincluding signing a contract? Get paid? Get a good Rejection? Have a GPIC-related item or other news? Bring anything to read?
After the ritual questions, we will invite members to read from their recent works. In order that as many as possible have an opportunity to share their work, please try to keep your readings to thirty minutes or less. At a normal reading speed, this translates to roughly four thousand words. At most meetings, there is not time for everyone to read, so we try to give priority to those who have gone longest withtout reading.
Refreshments are ongoing during the proceedings. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the refreshments, but no one is required or to do so. The host, as usual, will provide ice, plates, flatware, plastic cups, and napkins. Let me know if you have a soda preference and we’ll try to have some on hand or feel free to bring your own. We’ll also have iced tea. I anticipate making ham and cheese sliders and a dessert of some kind.
Directions to 6609 S Chestnut Ave, Broken Arrow
Take the Creek Turnpike to the Aspen Avenue Exit.
Go SOUTH on Aspen Avenue approximately 0.3 miles to the stoplight.
At the light, turn RIGHT (WEST) onto Tucson/121st Avenue.
Turn LEFT (SOUTH) in 0.2 miles onto Chestnut Avenue–the first street on the left. The name of the subdivision is the Reserve at Spring Creek. There’s a sign at the entrance.
Our home, 6609 South Chestnut, is about 0.1 miles on your left.
Alternate routes that avoid the Turnpike.
From Midtown.
The simplest route from Midtown is to get on Riverside heading south and stay on it. South of the Creek Turnpike, it makes a long, gentle curve to the left and eventually becomes eastbound South 121st Street (Tuscson Avenue in Broken Arrow). You can follow this all the way to our subdivision, a little over six miles after the street becomes east-bound. From Memorial Avenue, it’s 3.9 miles to Chestnut Avenue and our subdivision, the Reserve at Spring Creek. Turn south on Chestnut, and our home is on the left after about 0.1 miles.
Many Tulsa streets also connect through to 121st Street, and so there are variations of this route depending on where you connect with 121st Street. Yale, Sheridan, and other streets further east all continue to 121st Street. Note that Harvard and Lewis dead-end and do NOT connect to 121st, while Riverside actually becomes 121st Street.
From the north via 169.
Get off 169 at 91st Street. Go east about 2.5 miles to Aspen/145th Avenue and turn RIGHT (SOUTH). Continue south on Aspen 3 miles to 121st/Tucson Avenue. Turn RIGHT (WEST) on Tucson, then in 0.2 miles turn left onto Chestnut Avenue. Our home is about 0.1 mile on the left.
From Keifer/Glenpool
Take 67 east to US 64 (Memorial Avenue) in Bixby. Turn LEFT (NORTH) on Memorial and proceed north 3 miles. Turn RIGHT (EAST) on 121st Street/Tucson. Continue 3.9 miles to our subdivision, the Reserve at Spring Creek. At the subdivision, turn right onto Chestnut Avenue. Our home is about 0.1 miles on the left.
Street Names in Broken Arrow.
Broken Arrow and Tulsa are now adjacent to each other, but this wasn’t always the case. Because of this, their street names are different. To help with way-finding, Broken Arrow has given most major streets two names. One is the traditional BA name, and the other is the corresponding Tulsa name. Most–but not all–street signs in Broken Arrow show both names. For the purpose of these directions, here are the dual names you need to know:
Tucson Street in BA is also 121st Street South.
Aspen Avenue in BA is also East 145th Avenue.